Anthony said:
I must confess I haven't read Ernesto Cardenal. Anything in particular you reccomend? I'll be sure to look him up.
I do apologise for the cynical view, hiphop, but the truth is that I believe in myself and my ability to love and be loved. I don't think there's a problem with 'me' giving love, but I'm not the one with the big decisions to make.
Love is the solution, its just too high up in the clouds when it comes to solving things like dismantling an atomic bomb.
I dunno, I'll likely change my views when I fall in love, again.
Ant.
If you knew German, I would recommend a book called "Meditation and Resistance", but it seems it hasn´t been published in English. So I can offer you one internet source in English:
http://www.katabasis.co.uk/pnewtime.html
Other translated examples of his work include:
Marilyn Monroe and Other Poems (1965)
The Psalms of Struggle and Liberation (1967)
To Live is to Love (1970)
In Cuba (1974)
Apocalypse and Other Poems (1977)
Nicaraguan New Time (1988)
Cosmic Canticle (1993)
Don´t apologize for your cynical view, you´re perfectly right in what you say. When you say you believe in yourself and your ability to Love and to be Loved, that is exactly what I mean by describing Love as the only solution. Even if you may think that this is just a little contribution to the well-being of this planet, I can assure you it is a big one, because Love has the ability to multiply itself through space and rhythm.
Therefore, I do not think Love is "too high up in the clouds when it comes to solving things like dismantling an atomic bomb". It is the solution, because if everyone would be able to put Love at the first place of his or her life, to focus on giving and recieving Love, people would neither care about atomic bombs.
With Love, fear is not important.
When Love is the only thing you focus upon, profit is not important.
When Love is the only thing you focus upon, suppression and exploitation will not be important.
The principle of capitalism is to always create new differences, in order to "equal" them out, and profit by doing so. With Love, everyone is equal - no need for a class system.
If you know about Love, you will not permit inequalities, you will not permit war, and you can feel the pain and blood of the victims of our cruelties.
With Love, no one needs to be more powerful than his neighbor. This is the reason why Love has to rise. This is the reason why everyone who has a pure heart should be working, each and every day, for the arrival of the kingdom of Love. Love is revolution.
With Love, there will be true development of the human race. This is how to dismantle an atomic bomb.
Believe in Love.
Share all your Love, every day and every moment of your time.