Why is a Culture of Love needed?
Why is a Culture of Love needed?
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is a Culture of Love needed?Love is necessary for the rescuing of the world. It is the only force which can bring peace between the nations. Love is beginning to appear; goodness, justice and light will triumph; it is only a matter of time. (Beinsa Douno) Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that. (Martin Luther King Jr.) There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love. (Father Greg Boyle cited in Huffington Post, posted 25 September 2015, accessed 24 January 2018) The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. (Albert Schweitzer) The Divine Teaching consists of Love. How can one explain modern life, full of crimes, murders, disagreements and misunderstandings? By a lack of love! Only Divine Love is capable of ordering the world and inaugurating a new culture. All sufferings, illnesses and infirmities, whether bodily or social , which torment humanity stem from violation of the law of love. Mankind must recognise this error once and for all. (Beinsa Douno, Gems of Love and Wisdom, p.17)  The reason it is necessary to make all the laws that govern the relationships between human beings, is because they are not yet inhabited by love. When they know what true love is, when they live this love, in this love, they will no longer need laws constantly reminding them what they should do or should not do. Because they will spontaneously discover how to live in harmony with each other. Love is the only force that organizes things, which makes them grow and flourish. As soon as love enters a family, a community, a society, there is no need to say, ‘Do this, do that, and if you do not, beware!’ Everyone performs their tasks with pleasure. Where there is love, law has no more place. (O.M. Aïvanhov) [On Terrorism:] We are still shocked by what has happened, but we will never give up our values. Our response is more democracy, more openness, and more humanity. We will answer hatred with love. (Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg following Anders Breivik's attacks in 2012, cited at BBC, posted 24 March 2016, accessed 25 March 2016) We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Martin Luther King Jr.) If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion. (Seen on internet) World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power. (Sri Chinmoy, Peace-Lovers, AUM publications)  The answer to the fear which darkens human existence at the end of the twentieth century, is the common effort to build the civilization of love... (Pope John Paul II, United Nations speech, 5 October 1995, accessed online 2 June 2020) You can really minimise the chance of violence coming into your life by just being kind. Just being a person who is the first person to open a door for somebody, the first person to say you’re sorry, the first person to... offer to buy somebody a drink, or... apologise for knocking into them. And just... being that person can really take care of so much of the aggression that’s out there, the needless aggression that ends up escalating the violence... (Tim Larkin, When Violence is the Answer online Companion Course ‘Module 10 In The End’, 8m25s) A Culture of Love is needed because evolutionary science gives evidence that it is the most successful or 'fittest' survival strategy. [Read more in-depth here, including references.] 'Survival of the fittest' as a violent competitive process is a corruption of Darwinism. Industrialists believed that it justified an economy of vicious competition and inequality. This has given rise to a corporate, capitalist dominated world, which is actually threatening our survival and that of many species. In fact, traits like co-operation, sharing and compassion have been at the basis of the most dramatic steps in the history of all life. In The Descent of Man, Darwin only wrote twice about 'survival of the fittest', but wrote 95 times about the evolutionary drive of Love in all species. Scientifically, this may not tell us how to behave. But evolutionarily and morally, it does! Wealth sharing and co-operation are more consistent with Darwinism. Success is actually about 'survival of the most loving'. But we are living in that corporate capitalist economy with its inequality and unsustainable lifestyle...  In your heart, you do know what matters. But it is really difficult to live through your heart in our society, because we don’t have any reward for that. There’s no encouragement to do it, so it’s quite easy to get lost. And it isn’t until you have a real reality check that you then stop and see what matters. (Rebecca, Video #6 at BBC, dated 2016, accessed 1/12/2016) Fuck work Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?... When work disappears, the genders produced by the labour market are blurred. When socially necessary labour declines, what we once called women’s work – education, healthcare, service – becomes our basic industry, not a ‘tertiary’ dimension of the measurable economy. The labour of love, caring for one another and learning how to be our brother’s keeper – socially beneficial labour – becomes not merely possible but eminently necessary, and not just within families, where affection is routinely available. No, I mean out there, in the wide, wide world. (James Livingston, Aeon, posted 25 November 2016, accessed 28 December 2016) As humans we are fragile biological entities who will die unless we take care of each other. (David Graeber) A Culture of Love avoids this sort of dystopian future, where AI makes us all useless and dumb. We will never become redundant or useless. We can ground the Spiritual World of Light and Love on Earth. Creativity is one way this happens. Another way is to "Be Love Now", in simple daily acts. There is a far greater intelligence than AI or algorithms. It is called Love. (Bruce Mitchell)  Dr Stan Dale quotes:-
[Care Leavers:] In Scotland, young
people in care are eight times more likely to be dead by age 25. At least 21% of care leavers become homeless
within five years, and are three times more likely to be unemployed. There is no family safety net to fall back
onto.
For many coming out of care, there is not enough emotional support. Many leave care in debt and are underprepared mentally, emotionally and financially. Aged 16, they are placed into flats with no narrative or structure of how their life could go. They've never had parents there to help them or show them the ropes. Callum Lynch, who spent years of his childhood in care, says "It's about being placed into something supportive and nurturing in the first place. We can help them by teaching them to budget, but I think we need to put them in a setting which is more nurturing as opposed to systematic. That's what's going to make the real difference here." (Adapted from BBC, posted and accessed 12 October 2017) We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)  Learning how to love is the purpose of spiritual life. Not learning how to develop psychic powers, how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate. Simply learning how to love ourselves and others completely. That is Namaste. (Unknown) [Namaste means "I bow to the divine in you."] Most mental illnesses do that. They isolate you - rather than make you want to accept other people's love or your own love. (Billie Marten cited at BBC, posted and accessed 11 November 2018) [So, we need a Culture of Love to overcome the scourge of mental illness!] And so I was out for a walk in nature and busy collecting human litter, as I often do. An old woman passed me and said, “People just don’t care.” I thought about her statement for some time and I thought that she is exactly right. We have created a society in which people just don’t care. This not caring underlies the modern world with its capitalism, consumerism, patriarchy, racism, misogyny, animal cruelty, ecocide. Is this really the world that we want? If not, then may I suggest a Culture of Love? Love and respect for the Earth and all its creatures needs to be the basis of our life, surely? (Bruce Mitchell) A nurturing society reduces violence. In such a society, babies are highly valued. However, in our current society, babies at best are tolerated and exist on the periphery. But what if we create a family-centred world? Babies have a huge power in their cuteness, encouraging a nurturing instinct in humans. The power of cuteness is so great that painting babies on London shopfront shutters had a huge effect on curbing aggression and antisocial behaviour [The Power of Cute, BBC, 2016, 10m47s]. (Bruce Mitchell)  Can't you hear the future weeping? Our love must save the world. (Ben Okri) [This quote was added to a large grass background and floated on London's River Thames in June 2021 by XR. This was to urge governments to act on the Climate & Ecological Emergency. See: film, here, here, here, here.] Human beings never think to solve their problems through the power of love; they do not believe in it. One day however, they will have to recognize that love is the most formidable weapon before which everyone is obliged to capitulate. Confronted with true love, the enemy has no possible means of escape: sooner or later they will be caught. So arm yourself with the weapons of love and you will see that no one will be able to resist you, and no one will ever blame you for having wanted to use these weapons. If you find that they are not working very well, it is because your love is not powerful enough. Strengthen it, increase it, and you will see that everyone will be forced to surrender. (O.M. Aïvanhov) The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism. (Hannah Arendt) [Compare this with the evil of Elon Musk: "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy."] But one thing we can know for sure is that this much power and wealth in the hands of so few people is definitely bad for democracy. We need a system that relies less on the power of money and more on the power of love. (Seth Meyers, YouTube, 13m15s, posted and accessed 28 April 2022)  |
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