Love Is the Cure

I have been regularly dismissed as idealistic. They say, “This issue is too serious for something as frivolous as love.”

It took me a good period to recover enough to say, “No, this issue is too grave not to employ love.”

There is only one solution and that is love. There is no medicine potent enough to cure the ailment at the root. Love is the cure. Love is the virtue.

Love, the native wisdom of those great leaders from Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr., is often cast as childish, naïve, idealistic. To espouse love as the solution is usually met with everything from cynicism to outright dimissal.

How do we love our so-called enemy? Nothing requires greater rigor of mind, heart, and courage than love. Love is born of the constant vigilance we need to prevent us from fabricating the other. It is a courageous act.

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