Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Person to Person...

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Virtually everyone today believes that it is possible to love only two or three people. When Jesus talks about loving our neighbor as ourselves, or the Compassionate Buddha tells us to love the whole world as a mother loves her only child, we believe it is all metaphorical. Mother Teresa says no, it is literal. Two or three people are not enough for our capacity to love. We should be able to love everyone - not feel a vague sentiment for a faceless mass, but actually be in love with every individual.

from Eknath Easwaran's Words to Live By (Copyright 1999 and 2005 by The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation.)

1 comment:

Jan said...

Only with Divine help is this ever possible. Hoping it for us all.