All you need is love..love..love is all you need....
Recently I saw the movie Across The Universe.....and then bought it....and it was truly amazing....I do admit to having a love of musicals...especially the rock opera type...and this one was something special....it used the music of the Beatles to tell such a great story...and it didn’t seem forced....if you haven’t seen it I can’t recommend it enough....
I’ve thought about those lines from "All You Need Is Love" quite a bit lately...wondering how true that could be....all you need is love? really? could there be nothing else you might require in life? It seems so simplistic and naive...like glossing over the difficulties life presents.....and some might argue that having that view is just unrealistic. I tend to think of myself as a fairly realistic person and have to admit that it’s awfully tempting to write off ’all you need is love’ as a quaint idea from decades past that just doesn’t stand up to modern life...but how much different would modern life be if people made a choice to be more loving? what would the world look like if love was the predominant factor in the decisions we made? I’d like to think that the world would be a little brighter and the people we meet everyday a little happier....and maybe we might even see beyond the superficial and realize the beauty that lies beneath the surface of each of us that so often seems to be obscured by the darkness. if we made the choice to be more loving we might be more apt to help one another...and in so doing make each other feel like we belong to something more....that we’re not alone in this life....that there really are others that care about who we are....the more I think about it, it sounds less like novelty and more like the beginnings of a revolution....
The Beatles weren’t the only ones with this idea....quite a few years before them another man came around...with a message that was different than the accepted ideas of the time....he said that the greatest thing of all was to love God with everything you have...and the second greatest was to love everyone else the same as yourself.....that everything good and true in life can be summed up in those two statements....and he lived and breathed those ideals during his life...even to the point of giving it up.....so if we choose to follow his teachings how can we do any less?
you know...the more I think about it the more undeniable it becomes...all you need is love, love...love is all you need.....
see you where the sidewalk ends....
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