...."in the end there is only love.
Love without power is only sentimentality, cheap and innocuous religion.
However, power without love becomes brutality and that's what every culture instinctively moves toward: self-protection and self-aggrandizement. Once we have learned the truth of the Grail, of love, we cannot believe the world of power is adequate or a correct response to reality. The heroic journey unites power and love.
Love is not given to us to help us solve our problems. Love, rather, leads us into our problems. It's love that leads us on the quest and ultimately to a final, universal, and grounding love. It's a love we can trust because we know it is not all up to us. We do not have to secure ourselves because we are radically secured - we are beloved children in a benevolent universe.
One true love is all that is necessary."
excerpts from Richard Rohr from his book Quest for the Grail
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