We need such experiences to lift us from the drabness, tedium, the mundane and weltschmerz of living---
the route need not be a religious one, I think, only that it  should be spiritual, humanistic, life-enhancing, selfless and compassionate as each person within himself has such latent potential which he could tap with a higher consciousness.
      In the common platform on which humanity stands,
everyone has a voice, albeit a individual and distinct one.
If such a voice strikes a responsive chord in our heart, life is somehow ennobled and enriched.
      It's hard to understand why wars and conflicts should exist
when we have such great potential to do good. We would have to assume----such leaders who are war-mongers are heartless and know not the healing and spiritual powers of 'amazement, wonder and awe'.
     Despite all the horrors and misery that the world has to endure,
hope we should not abandon.  Though a utopia could never be achieved,  every compassionate, ethical and moral thought and act would help draw out the latent best in each of us and the world would be a somewhat better place for our being its citizens and goodwill- bearers.