LOVE IS EVERYTHING.
LOVE IS THE ONLY HOPE.
Now I should qualify. Love is neither of these from the perspective of Pleasure / Selfishness / Disconnection / Exploitation.
But, from the perspective of Global Family / Joy / Solidarity / World Peace / Justice / Elimination of Poverty / Elimination of Suffering - Love is Everything. Love is the only thing.
How can Love be the only thing to Global Family / Joy / Solidarity / World Peace / Justice / Elimination of Poverty / Elimination of Suffering? It is in the same way that opening your eyes is the only thing to navigating across the room; or breathing is the only thing to avoiding passing out in the next three minutes.
Buddhist Nhat Hanh captures this brilliantly in his must read essay: LOVE IN ACTION.
"The usual way to generate force is to create anger, desire,and fear. But these are dangerous sources of energy because they are blind, whereas the force of love springs from awareness, and does not destroy its own aims. Out of love and the willingness to act, strategies and tactics will be created naturally from the circumstances of the struggle. Thus, the problems of strategy and tactics are of secondary importance. They should be posed, but not at the beginning."
It would be a lie for me to qualify this extremist statement:
LOVE IS EVERYTHING.
LOVE IS THE ONLY HOPE.
Everything in my personal, scholarly and professional life of 56 years leads to this conclusion. I suspect that your experience is the same.
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