Love is a Dynamo*

Love is not always a virtue.  We can love the most inappropriate and destructive things, in the most inappropriate and destructive ways.  But this usually only happens when we see ourselves in a state of love.  This is love as an adjective.  Love as a way to describe how we feel about someone or something – from the banal to the significant.

But in it’s appropriate and constructive application, love is an entirely different thing.  It is a force that can create not only personal happiness but also social justice, equality and peace.   This happens when we see love as a verb – a word of action.

Just like a dynamo converts mechanical energy (movement) into electrical energy (light, heat etc.) – so too the active expression of love – the movement of love converts our higher intentions of altruism and empathy and concern for others – all others – into energy that has the potential to light up the planet.

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words—these alone are without effect. (1)

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(1)  Paris Talks – ‘Abdu’l-Baha 

* Dynamo – In physics, a simple generator or machine for transforming mechanical energy into electrical energy.