"Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil and the saint."

Al-Ghazali

Seems the good side of man is overshadowed by the bad. Outnumbered 3-1. No wonder its impossible to expect too much goodness from our neighbours. Better to resolve oneself to dealing with the realities of the pigs, dogs and devils around us. But then do we miss the divinity?
I came home so disgusted and miserable, so revolted by the ugliness of the world, that I didn't even notice the lovely pink tulips set on my table. It took a good two hours of decompression before I could appreciate the subtlety of the arrangement and the textures of the flower.
Perhaps the ugliness of the world is intended to make the divine that much more lovely?
Is God not then remote but waiting to be discovered in the everyday details?