"The longer I live — especially now when I clearly feel the approach of
death — the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than
anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely,
what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really
simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries.
Love, or in other words the striving of men’s souls towards unity and
the submissive behavior to one another that results therefrom,
represents the highest and indeed the only law of life, as every man
knows and feels in the depths of his heart (and as we see most clearly
in children), and knows until he becomes involved in the lying net of
worldly thoughts… Any employment of force is incompatible with love."
Leo Tolstoy letter to Gandhi (1910), more info here.
Image Diana V. Almeida. Street Art, Porto, 2015.
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