Only Love Can Drive Out Hate


At times I wonder why I am so sensitive and even frustrated to the world at large. What makes me feel these moments of hostility throughout my day to day life? And then I sit down to have a nice coffee at a cafĂ© to enjoy a mid-day recharge. As I sit overhearing (eavesdropping?) the table next to me spout hateful words about an unknowing passerby. I sit, baffled at their arrogance and mean spirited nature. Then, I find myself becoming angry and hateful at them for their words. How can they be so mean? Why can’t they just be more compassionate? But, I realize my thinking only continues the hate.
My own lack of acceptance of their ignorance is just as bad as their hate. One does not trump the other in justification. These energies and situations happen every day. We all feel entitled to one behavior or another. These entitlements continue to affect the world in different ways. Only when we stop, accept our faults and decide to make a change in our behavior for the greater good, do we really make any kind of difference. My hate and your hate are just the same, even if I feel mine is more righteous. Because of course we all think our way is the right way.

It is hate, nonetheless. Good intentioned hate is still hate.

So for today, in this moment I recognize this man’s flaws, as well as my own and make an attempt to withhold my frustration and simply love him anyway. As a great, wonderful man by the name of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

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