Charito Calvachi-Mateyko, as we join our efforts in exploring inner peace, asked me in a radio interview transmitted on ‘Radio Centro’; WLCH, 91.3 FM in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, why is it important to give love to the world?

I would love to share with you some of my comments and would love to hear yours.

Peace Pilgrim, who walked more than 25,000 miles for peace, sharing her core values for an expansion of consciousness, said, “Love is the greatest force on earth. Love conquers all.” She was referring to the great potential each of us has to manage conflictive situations with love. Using the transformative power that love offers.

This is a good opportunity to comment in detail of an incident that happened to our traveling friend and its message of peace. She once was struck by an upset adolescent, with whom she had begun to walk. He had wanted to go on the trip, but was afraid of breaking a leg and being left behind. Everyone was afraid to be with him as he was an enormous boy, the size of a football player, and was well known for being violent occasionally. On one occasion he struck his mother so hard, she had to spend several weeks in hospital. All feared him; but Peace Pilgrim offered to walk with him.

As they reached the top of the first hill, everything was going well. But soon a storm appeared. The boy was terrified because the storm was so close by. He reacted, suddenly approached Peace Pilgrim and hit her. She didn’t run although perhaps she might have, as the young man carried a heavy backpack. Even though he was striking her, Peace Pilgrim could feel only the deepest compassion for this young man who was so ill psychologically as to strike a defenseless, and older, woman. Peace Pilgrim countered his rage with love even while he was beating her … and with this he stopped.

He said to her, “You didn’t hit me back! Mother always hits me back.” In spite of his upheaval, Peace Pilgrim’s reaction elicited kindness in the boy. He felt remorse and condemned his own actions.

In summary, the young man stopped being violent and today is a useful person in the world.

Plato described love as the union of two souls with the same divinity. Jesus Christ said: ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’ Taoist Chuang-Tzu taught that through love we experience the inherent connections between ourselves and others, seeing the creation as one. Marc Edmund Jones commented that the testimony of the world is towards unity. Buddha saw that understanding and love are one.

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