All present sufferings of humanity put us into an initial position: “Well, what’s next?”
In the past, sufferings in of themselves were showing us how to get rid of them. A person felt that he was poor for example, so he wanted to become rich, or he was a slave and he wanted to become free, or maybe he felt that he lacked education in comparison with the others, so he tried to get it, and so on. In other words, sufferings themselves showed us the way to solve them.
Today the situation is quite the opposite. That’s why we’re seeing morals degrading: drugs, suicides, and terror all come from emptiness. A person doesn’t understand or sense why this takes place.This means that a person finds out that he is aspiring for something but it isn’t formed. He doesn’t know what it’s for, and that’s the major problem.