I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.