I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
When have you chosen love when hate might have been a more obvious choice?
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
When have you chosen love when hate might have been a more obvious choice?
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One holds the object of one’s hate closely, sometimes so closely that forgiveness becomes impossible. This is the burden of hate.
I agree with MLKjr. Carrying hate around is too much trouble; it allows one to feel anger, remorse, guilt as well as a myriad of other emotions personally. In addition, it serves no purpose in the world since it tends to arrive at a dead end. Not including rational thoughts and then action about disagreement or even some anger about something that one doesn’t like or think productive for better understanding or a solution to a problem is allowing the emotion to override any possible solution. Peace is slow in coming; it needs to be nurtured; patience followed by understanding and then action is the way. Perhaps this can be called “love”; I don’t know if this is the way to look at problems in the world but it can’t hurt to consider feeling it too.