Love And Politics

“I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.”

— Juliette Drouet

“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”

— Petrarch

He [Jung] writes that he does not seek, as the East Indian does, to be freed from nature and the inner opposites. Instead he seeks that wisdom which comes from the fullness of a life lived with devotion. “Nature, the psyche, and life appear to me like divinity unfolded.” ~Marie Louise Von Franz, C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time, Page 115

Love creates the world. It is certainly not created by an indifferent God and most certainly not by the wrathful one described by some believers. How could the world contain such stupendous beauty, otherwise? Then, whence comes these hateful humans, so bent on destruction? How must we face a world with such an element?

We all suffer from a common fear of being injured, of being erased, but hate is an even further step away from the wisdom of caring. Politics is supposed to be the mechanics…