One Apple A Day #590 - power and love
A few apparently disconnect things that maybe are not (disconnected).
Sunday I was checking the news online when I had one of those a-ha moments. The more I was reading, the more I was feeling bothered. Even worst, some anger was boiling there.
All those negative news were finding their way into my system. All the hate, the oppression, the suffering, the divisive words they were intoxicating my mind and my heart.
So, I've decided to take a full day off the news. And it has been so refreshing that I'm going to take a whole week of detachment from the news.
Yesterday I heard on the radio that it was the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. I remember reading the book The Day of the Bomb by Karl Bruckner, more than thirty years ago. It is a children' novel about that event, and I still feel a knot in the stomach, remembering that story.
I went to bed yesterday asking myself how is it possible that we use all this incredible potential to harm others.
Then this morning, after my training, I walked in the bedroom to pick the BeTheChange cards for my morning reflections. I didn't put them away in the box yesterday, so they were still there laying on my bedtable. And the one on top caught my attention. It says "Power + Love".
Inside the booklet a quote.
"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anaemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love." ― Martin Luther King Jr.