Why Am I Willing To Live With A Lack Of Options?

It is only through of the ecstasy of pure, direct love that we can see our way clear to fully understand in our hearts and minds the words of Jesus' reminder of the first commandment: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. And the second follows upon the first: And you shall love your neighbour in the same fashion as which you love yourself. It is only in and through the lives of these people that peace is established in the world, and not by any others in any other fashion.

We repeat, there is nothing we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as our friend.

- Dorothy Day