Ah, life

There is an immense landscape of thought of ethics in which wo/mankind moves. I am an explorer of that land and this is my journal. Blessings

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

The ways and power of love

Perhaps it's time to look again at the ways and power of love. For many, just the thought that love is a real possibilty gives hope to what could otherwise be an empty life. What harm could come from mutual respect, goodness, gentleness, trust and peaceful coexistance? Think about it. Only love has the power to unite without taking away another's dignity, another's self. Only love holds no jealous possesion over people and nations. Only love is capable of putting humanity before ideology or race. Only love can supply the endless energies required to overcome hunger and despair.

'Love one another.' These words were spoken more than two thousand years ago. Powerful though the command is, many of us have succeeded in ignoring it for these many years. We all give lip service to it but few of us expect anyone to really practice it.

Today the phrase 'love one another' takes on a more urgent tone. It seems to me that we must love one another or die. Modern society shrugs off still another plea for love. The more we look about us the more we find hate, violence, prejudice and disregard for human life. On any night just watch the evening news or 'current affairs' programmes. In order to survive we need to accept love in our life as the most universal force for unification and good, accessible to all who want it.

Only then will we discover that love has the power to lay aside the petty things which separate us and reveal the fact that our enemy has a face and a heart. It is again at this point that all things become possible. When we realise that our angry neighbour, our miserly employer, our greedy thief or any of the people we deal with who fall below our expectations of what is right, have as much yearning in themselves to be loved, that they too have a heart and dreams, that they are not the enemy , that they are we. Then anything is possible. Through forgiveness is the door to Eden, the garden where we all play in innocense.

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