Ode To Reason - As The Year Ends

Point to Ponder: “For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?” – guess who said this?

Ode to Reason- as the year ends

“Man!

Why do you hate,

When there is love?

Why do you hate,

Your own fellow man?

Each one of us, born to die,

In so little time, on this, our planet earth,

So why hate and why not love,

All things that live and breathe,

Including your fellow man

There is so little time.” Erza Mir

Reflection:
I cannot but hate the prospect of slavery’s expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of the free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real life friends of freedom to doubt sincerity- What Abraham Lincoln said about Slavery applies as well to Hate and Prejudice.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of fellow beings- Mahatma Gandhi, The story of my experiments with Truth.

No one is born hating another person because of color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.–Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

All of your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate… I choose love. - Johnny Cash