LOVE DIPLOMACY
Making the World a Better Place through Love!
This law is the hallmark of social transformation and spiritual harmony. With this law the world becomes a comfortable place to live in. This law neutralizes the sting of selfishness. This is the quintessential Law of Love. No one in his or her right mind would do harm to himself or herself. This rule says: if you cannot harm yourself, so you can’t your neighbour either. Compassion begins with sympathy and ends with empathy. When you seek to understand and consider the limitations of others, you are compassionate. This law is the beginning of servitude. Compassion eliminates all forms of selfishness and places others above self. Most people that have influenced their world and left a mark on life are and were compassionate people. Influencers have compassion. They are moved by compassion to administer justice and goodwill to all men.
The golden rule puts a question mark on our actions against others. We sometimes think that the misgivings of others need to be punished. We think that others deserve worse than ourselves. But we are just as culpable. The next time you feel like wishing someone evil, first ask yourself: would I like this to be done unto me? If you don’t want evil to happen to you, so you shouldn’t wish it on others. Better still; don’t do anything unto others that you wouldn’t like others to do unto you! For this rule to be effective, however, you need to be compassionate.
You cannot love without being compassionate. Love and compassion work together. To be compassionate you have to feel the pains of others. You can report the problems of others and even document their sufferings. But if you don’t feel the way they feel, you can’t touch them. Many times when we see pictures of the sufferings of people from various parts of the world, we don’t respond with compassion. But after a massive disaster I keep hearing people say, “We thought this would never happen to us.” Until you’re hit by a plague, you have no idea what other people go through.
We live in a world in which we protect ourselves with fences of selfishness. Selfishness is one of the forces responsible for the state of the world at any given time. The other is love. Selfishness loses. Selflessness wins. A compassionate person says, “I may not profit from the contribution I make sometimes, but others will.” Compassion is contentment. It is realizing that the conditions of others affect me directly. This is why this law is also one of the laws of influence. Because when you have compassion, you will be moved to help others. You will be motivated to take action against injustice and speak out for the voiceless.