http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJs-TWPMmhE
I know of two synonyms for the word love. Do you?
Pause and think for a moment.
Mind you I'm not speaking of lust, I'm speaking of Love, that which is
me about the well-being of the global neediest. One synonym I mentioned in another video
log, another essay – ‘solidarity,’ that's the one I realized recently. I don't know if anyone else has seen it as a
synonym for love.
The other I learned more than a decade ago, it seems to me,
Ashley Montague's writing as I recall, that ‘respect’ and ‘love’ are virtually indistinguishable. With 'respect' he's not talking about some
formal code of conduct. He's talking
about the neurological capacity we have to look at something so carefully that
we all but merge with it, and effectively we do merge with it. As I understand it, whether it's Latin or
Greek origin, respect means, ‘to look again.’
What human being is
not worthy of respect? What creature is
not worthy of respect? At what times are
a human being, what behaviors, make it correct not respect the individual even
for a second? Maybe when a baton is
coming down on your head, right? Not
according to the potent activists as seen in their behavior throughout
history. They allow nothing to interfere
with their respect for an individual as an individual, ever. It's a luxury they don't afford
themselves. It's an inhumanity they
don't allow for themselves, in part because, it instantly kills themselves the
'person of hope' that they the activist were, or were becoming, until the lapse
in respect.
The insanely humane Unviolent warrior is love incarnate;
love is respect. It's impossible to be
loving without respecting.
We are not talking about respecting behavior here! That's a whole different thing. Respectable behavior, loving behavior,
courageous behavior... is to be respected.
Everything else is to be disrespected, a duty of communication, of
Truth; tho always with the humility of realizing we’ve all failed in our
behavior, tho if we Love, less and less with every hour.
But the individual?
There is no time, no circumstance, no way, no instance, no nanosecond...
when anything less than full respect for the individual, is acceptable, for the
INSHE warrior.
Now in this most dangerous, most dire of all times, if it's
not tough love, it is neither love, nor respect.
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