Simone Weil has an interesting diagnosis of the human predicament.  She says. “The danger is not that there is no bread, but that we have convinced ourselves that we are not hungry.”

 Is she right?  How many people do you know who are operating out of a conviction that if we have an abundance of things, take good care of our bodies, satisfy our physical drives and passions, then life is all that it was meant to be.  But then you come across a person who has a peace and a joy that you don’t understand.  There’s nothing frantic about him.  He’s not into what everybody else is in to.  As you come to know him, you realize he believes that life is not a matter of quantity but quality.  It’s not a matter of getting, it’s a matter of giving.  It’s not a matter of the material, it’s a matter of the spiritual.

 Then we know it’s true.  “The danger is not that there is no bread, but that we have convinced ourselves that we are not hungry.”