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SUMMARY:peace\, love & happiness 6/11/20
DESCRIPTION:painting of George Floyd by Lukas Carlson \n  \nTHE OPEN ROAD \npeace\, love & happiness newsletter \n  \n  \nJune 11\, 2020 \n  \nThe black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws—racism\, poverty\, militarism\, and materialism. It is exposing the evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced. \n  \n—Martin Luther King\, Jr. \n* \n  \nI recently posted this on my FaceBook page: \n  \nAt the root of racism\, injustice and violence are ignorance\, fear\, and a lack of imagination and love. \n  \nMay all people be happy. \nMay we live in love. \n* \n  \nI also posted a link to Martin Luther King’s sermon “Loving Your Enemies” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=522wcqUlS0Y)\, along with these “comments”: \n  \nLove is creative understanding goodwill for all men. \n  \n—from Martin Luther King’s sermon “Loving Your Enemies” \n* \n  \nIn this world\, \nhate never yet dispelled hate. \nOnly love dispels hate. \nThis is the law\, \nancient and inexhaustible. \n  \n—Buddha\, from the Dhammapada \n* \n  \nWho loves not\, knows not God; for God is love. \n  \n1 John 4:8 \n* \n  \nLove to faults is always blind\, \nAlways is to joy inclin’d\, \nLawless\, wing’d & unconfin’d\, \nAnd breaks all chains from every mind. \n  \n—William Blake \n* \n  \nBlake also said: \n  \nEvery thing that lives is Holy \n  \nand: \n  \nChildren of the future Age \nReading this indignant page\, \nKnow that in a former time \nLove! sweet Love! was thought a crime. \n  \nand: \n  \nArt Degraded Imagination Denied War Governed the Nations \n* \n  \nHere are some more thoughts: \nthere is one human family \nwe all belong \nwe need each other more than we know \nwe came here to love and be loved \nat the core of every human being is something radiantly beautiful \nThich Nhat Han speaks of “interbeing” \nat the most fundamental level\, we are not separate from each other \nor from the flowing river of life \n  \nAgain\, Blake: \n  \nCan I see another’s woe \nAnd not be in sorrow too? \nCan I see another’s grief\, \nAnd not seek for kind relief?…. \nNo no never can it be\, \nNever\, never can it be. \n* \n  \nIn 1855\, Walt Whitman said: \n  \nOf every hue and caste am I\, of every rank and religion…. \n  \nIn all people I see myself\, none more\, and not one a barley-corn less…. \n  \nI speak the password primeval\, I give the sign of democracy\, \nBy God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. \n  \n—from “Song of Myself” \n* \n  \nOne of the best books I’ve read in recent years is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Written as a letter to his son\, it’s powerful and poignant. Highly recommended! If you’d like to learn more about the racist dimension of our society\, especially in relation to the criminal justice system\, you might read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and watch the documentary “13th\,” by Ava DuVernay.  \nHere’s a link to Cornel West speaking about love and justice:  \n  \nhttps://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/06/10/cornel-west-george-floyd-cooper-ac360-vpx.cnn \n  \nI’ll close this issue with passages from Martin Luther King’s sermon “Loving Your Enemies”: \n  \nWe 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…. \nSo this morning\, as I look into your eyes\, and into the eyes of all my brothers in Alabama and all over America and over the world\, I say to you\, “I love you. I would rather die than hate you.” And I’m foolish enough to believe that through the power of this love somewhere\, men of the most recalcitrant bent will be transformed. And then we will be in God’s kingdom. \n  \n—delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church\, Montgomery Alabama\, November 17\, 1957\, from the book A Knock at Midnight
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