"We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Barring all the selfishness that chills like east winds of the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether."How evocative. Those words move me and give me hope. It takes great courage and vision to see this, and I certainly don't all the time. But I've witnessed it enough to believe it to be true
9.18.2007
Bathed in Love
Duke Ellington said, "If it sounds good, it is good." With that in mind, I'm certainly no expert in great literature. However, whenever I read Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau I always hear something good. Take these opening lines from Emerson's essay Friendship.
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"the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether."
I like being part of a family, that is indeed hopeful, beautiful - evocative like you said.
People are good at the core, and at the core we are all the same - Love. Like in any family, sometimes in it hard to see it in others and sometimes it is even harder to see it in ourselves.
This reminded me of a couple of the statements on the home page of this site.
LOVE is in abundant supply because all people are created in the image of Perfect Love.
LOVE must first be experienced within yourself before it is adequately expressed to another.
P.S. Also...I just love the word "evocative" it means having power to evoke ... to call forth.
Thanks Kevin - have a great day!
"We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken."
the Source (God) of love, kindness, compassion, mercy, etc...is within us. step one for me was finding and depending upon it for myself. step two was learning to let it flow through me to others in thoughts, attitudes, words, and actions.
sometimes there is a bridge of fear we have to cross to allow ourselves to express it, but once we do, we see the bridge was only an illusion we created; there is no fear.
peace, jim
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