The Only Thing

Being is love; hence we know nothing if we do not love. And that is why charity is the organ of perfect knowledge... Only charity, by placing itself at the heart of all, lives above appearances, communicates itself even to the interior of substances, and completely resolves the problem of knowlege and being.

Maurice Blondel

I have been into philosophy since college. Not enough though, I continued until my graduate studies. I went through all the cerebro-splitting rigors and twists of it. After several years, I realize now that thinking is not ultimate in philosophy. There is something yet more profound, deep and fundamental that fires up all acts of thinking. If you just scratch a little deeper, what you will find is love, the "thing" that many of us often laugh at and scorn, for various personal reasons.

It is love that grounds all thinking and knowledge. It is love that dictates what kind of knowledge to take, how to pursue it and how to live with it. Love indeed is the organ of perfect knowledge.

If you have love then you have everything:

the courage to keep on pursuing something even without full guarantee of success,
the patience to go through time and dance with the now boring, now dragging, or now exciting pace of time's boundless horizon,
the capacity to forgive oneself and others whenever there is the genuine desire to do only the good and the best and still end up a failure or end up doing harm to people,
the joy to recognize the humor of day-to-day living,
the gratitude of someone who places himself/herself at the heart of anything that can possibly come,
the hope that can penetrate all darkness within and without,
the vision that can see through thickets of appearances or deceptions,
and above all the humility to accept always one's ignorance in the face of the Divine.

We are all at the mercy of love.
In the coming days may we celebrate love, the most wonderful gift and treasure we have.