I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the power of love as a conscious choice linked to the ultimate goodness.
Martin Luther King, Jr. underscores the importance of love as a deliberate decision rather than a mere emotion. He asserts that true goodness can be discovered through love, equating love itself with divinity, suggesting that embracing love leads to a higher purpose and fulfillment in life.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony to express the foundation of their union.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
What is love but a second-hand emotion?
The prize of all too precious you.
Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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