What Counts
Dorothy Day
It is not love in the abstract that counts. Men have loved a cause
as they have loved a woman. They have loved the brotherhood, the
workers, the poor, the oppressed - but they have not loved man; they
have not loved the least of these. They have not loved ?personally.? It
is hard to love. It is the hardest thing in the world, naturally speaking.
Have you ever read Tolstoy?s Resurrection? He tells of political
prisoners
in a long prison train, enduring chains and persecution for the love of
their brothers, ignoring those same brothers on the long trek to Siberia.
It is never the brothers right next to us, but the brothers in the
abstract
that are easy to love.
Battling shoulder-to-shoulder isolation on today's trains.
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/wiser-isolation.htm
Source: Dorothy Day, "Meditations"
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