Love and Hate

“A man suffers injustice. He resents it, and his resentment grows and grows and becomes anger. Anger, if it is fed, then becomes hatred. Hatred, if fed, opens the soul to evil spirits. And when they possess a man, he becomes capable of any atrocity. Afterward, he will not know how or why he became like that.”

“Seldom have I encountered the few who are awake, who cast their gaze to the real foundations, which, as human beings should know, are above.”

“...love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence.”

~Michael O’Brien (from Island of the World)