Collective Soul real happiness

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny
with the object of making men happy in the end, giving
them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential
and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature
and to found that edifice on its un-avenged tears, would
you consent to be the architect on those conditions?
Tell me, and tell the truth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Until you have become really,
in actual fact, as a brother to everyone,
brotherhood will not come to pass.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky, whose soul seems to have known no bounds described the nature of change in man needed to bring about a just sustainable civilization when he said, “All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.” And how do we become angels? Well certainly the first things angels know something about is listening.

To listen is to suffer because we do not want to listen to anything that might
require a change. To listen is to change. We cannot change without listening.
Listening implies a change. We need to change just to listen.

When we lose our capacity to listen we lose our
capacity to love for listening is love in action.