"Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, came face-to-with the despair of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka when he visited refugee camps in the north-east of the country.," reports Telegraph
Ban Ki-moon is reported to have said, "I'm very moved after what I have seen...I've seen so many wounded."
See this picture, see the spirit that lives despite the suffering, see the hands stretched out, and the faces lit up- this is what is moving- not the suffering, but the spirit that looks forward, that has enough poise to rise above its concerns and bask in the glory of a momentary triviality; see how alert it is to hold charisma in its hands: this moment of contact with greatness might be passing, but the certainty, the hope that one will live and be in a frame of mind to recall and cherish, "I shook hands with the UN Secretary-General,"- this is Life.
Not our earnestness, not our sense of the tragic or the welling of compassion or anger or outrage that are generated by thought and emotion, but the spontaneous rise of the will to contact- this is it.
This is what helps man pass through all suffering and come out smiling into a bright day..
Hope such a happy day breaks for all the people of Sri Lanka.
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