Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.
To be is to be related.
Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.
If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.
Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.