Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
Go beyond science into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like with much more of a sense from our perspective of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts having strength in alliances operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.