Love

Love…

Since the beginnings of history… traditions, rituals, superstitions and blind faith religions have served as human protections from what are perceived as overwhelming and omnipotent forces in nature.

Mysterious, powerful, dangerous and inexplicable events in peoples’ lives… were often explained as curious works and designs of angry and unrelenting gods.

Priests, preachers, rabbis, medicine men or shamans sometimes demanded rude and painful sacrifices.

But history reveals that avoidable suffering is not redemptive. Courage, commitment and community engagement have moved mountains. Proactive love works.

“Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred… What’s more, we cast out the darkness inside ourselves.”
― Yehuda Berg

‘True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.’
―Albert Einstein

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
― Oscar Wilde

Love is a name for what people call God.
― tmf

“So how does love speak to me?
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory
answer to the problem of human existence.”
―Erich Fromm

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
―James A. Baldwin

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
―Sinclair Lewis

“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”
―John Lennon

“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.“
―Petrarch