The Revolution is Love … (03/16/12)
“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion to how much we know about how they are made.” ~ John Godfrey Saxe, 1869
We are told to be careful of strangers; to not make prolonged eye-contact with them; to avoid provoking them by being “too friendly” … We are told over and over again to “tow the line” and be afraid.
Well, I’m tired of that game … I’ve walked and rode and flown all over this world for the past several decades and I’ve yet to find a single “bad person”. Yes, I have been attacked &/or yelled at by “crazy men” on drugs … Yes, I have been ridiculed and rejected … Yes, I have been lied to and cheated on … AND YET the people who did these things to me weren’t “evil”. Heck, they weren’t even “bad”. They were simply people who were confused and in pain; who were trying their best to survive in this crazy world that can indeed sometimes be a bit scary.
Come to think of it, maybe to them I was the stranger. Maybe they simply thought they were protecting themselves from ME.
In essence folks, we cannot be the change we wish to see until we wake up and realize that we are all truly ONE — that the homeless person on the street corner is not a “bum”; that the lover who lies to us is not a “jerk”; that our rich boss is not “selfish”. These are all PEOPLE — people who are in many many many ways JUST LIKE YOU. They long to be liked, they long to be Loved, they long to be respected, and they long for someone to reach out to them in Kindness.
I know, our law-makers want us to “behave” and not cause too much trouble. I know our society wants us to keep on judging and criticizing and condemning our enemies — to keep walling ourselves off from the life of Compassion that would be our true Freedom.
Well, it’s time to BREAK FREE of all that …
… and smiling at strangers is a great place to start!
“It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.” ~ Earl Warren (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
The same is true of Kindness, Earl …
The same is true with Love.
LOVE is a verb …
… got LOVE?
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