Are you rich and beside you resides the poor but you resist calling them your neighbour? You are bound to love them. It’s a very common thing that the society calls the poor “inferiors”. On an open platform I ask, ‘in what are they inferior?’ They are far more equals than your inferiors. You are by no means better than they – except you measure your humane worth by your material riches. They are men, and what are you more than that? Be cautious that you love your neighbours most especially the less privileged in rags and poverty.
But perhaps you say “I cannot love my neighbours, because for all I do, they return ungratefulness and hatred.” Where’s the heroism of love these days?? It’s the person that dares the most that’ll win the most. If the part to showing love is rough, it should be one that we should tread with boldness and joy; loving our neighbours through thick and thin.
Communal love used to be a standard humane attribute but it seems to have been drastically depleted these days. Animals have been seen on several occasions to be showing love not only to members of their species but to other species; how much more we humans? How much more you and I?
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