The Failure of Vengeance –
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of revenge. Humanity has yet to rise above the ancient decree: “Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” Though vengeance has never healed a wound nor solved a single social problem, we continue to follow its ruinous course. History is littered with the wreckage of nations and souls that clung to retaliation as a path to justice.
Generations will come and go; many will still worship at the altar of retribution. Yet, time and again, it is only goodness that drives out evil, and only love that conquers hate.
The Call to Transformative Love
We invite you to practice transformative love— a love that is infinite, gracious, and abundant. In more mystical terms, it is to love with the Divine itself: to let the Great Love fill us, flow through us, and reach out beyond all boundaries and distinctions. Such love is not a feeling, but a way of life—a daring invitation to live beyond fear and division.
Transformative love surpasses the ordinary loves that separate “us” from “them,” brother from stranger, friend from foe. It calls us to love as the Divine loves: freely, inclusively, without measure or exception. We often imagine the world divided by religion: you are Buddhist, I am Christian, she is Jewish, he is atheist. But perhaps this way of thinking no longer serves us—and may even harm us. What if the deeper question is not what we believe, but how we love? Are we believers who defend our beliefs above all else, or people of faith who place love first? Do our convictions set us against one another, or do they draw us closer, moving us toward the other with compassion?
Perhaps it is in the stillness between two hearts that the mystery of transformative love is most clearly seen—a love that asks for nothing, yet gives everything.
The Place Where Love Is Enough
Two lovers sitting close to one another, in
harmony, and peace; at this moment they do
not dream of being someone else or anywhere else.
They are at ease being as they are, speaking or silent.
They follow the one that binds them together,
a Source of love beyond their knowing.
They have vowed to cherish that Source.
These two lovers sit near one another;
Yet there is no deeper, subtler energy between them,
than a presence that arises from the stillness of the moment.
They are content to be as they are.
Being where they are in the simplicity
and the fullness of the moment is entirely enough.
When two people love in this way,
Their individuality may strengthen in such a love,
yet at the same time they unite beyond
their own selves, in this spacious place.
Commentary
This poem points toward a love that moves beneath knowing—a quiet source, deep and unseen. It carries the echo of the troubadours, the hush of the mystics—a love both human and beyond the human, tender and infinite at once.
Its tone is stillness itself—a calm so pure it becomes a kind of light. Between two people, this silence is not empty; it hums with presence. They do not long for elsewhere, nor wish to be more than they are. This moment, this being, is enough.
How rare such rest is in our unsettled world—to love without reaching, to meet without losing oneself. For in that quiet space between them, something greater unfolds—not merging, but meeting, a third place where love simply abides.
