There is no emotion like love. Everyone wished to be loved. Voltaire said, "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." People even call love as God. We are always told that love alone can solve all problems.
If love is considered beautiful, hatred is considered ugly. If love is desirable, hatred must be avoided at all cost.
People consider hatred as evil and anger as a negative emotion. All opponents of love like jealousy, envy, anger are looked down upon by the puritan. The opponents of love are often compared with Satan and Devil.
Scriptures tells us that we should love not only our neighbors but also our enemies and offer our second cheek, if someone slaps us on own cheek.
In reality, love and hatred are as integrated with each other as the North Pole and South Pole of the magnets are connected with each other or as the protons and electrons are integrated with each other in an atom. They just cannot live in isolation and one is the father of the other. Kurt Tucholsky said,
"Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire."
It may look absurd but love is the cause of hatred and hatred is the cause of love. Beauty would lose its meaning if ugliness is removed from this world. You love watching the matches which are played against your enemy nations. You love deafening them as much as you hate losing from them.
Those who never hate, also never love.
You love justice because you hate injustice.
One, who has no hatred for injustice, cannot be just.
You love your country because you hate your enemy country.
If your country has no real enemy, you can't love your country.
The concept of nationalism was broken into pieces after the enmity between the European nations stopped. Now the citizens of these countries complain that they do not love their country.
Once you have destroyed the hatred, love cannot live long.
Often leaders have to invent an enemy, a fearsome and ferocious enemy so that their men get united. They create hatred towards their opponents so that their followers can unite under him.
If you have no enemies, you are good for nothing because you have never stood for anything. When you make enemies, you also make friends. Winston Churchill, one of the greatest leaders of twentieth century said,
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
A wise man is therefore never afraid of the hatred. He knows that love has to be accompanied by hatred. Only those who are willing to sacrifice love are able to get rid of hatred. However, a person who lost love and hatred also loses the purpose of living.
However, good people base their emotions on love but they are also prepared to face the hatred that invariably follows love like a forgotten lover.Life is a mystery which can not be explained either by science or by scriptures.
Truth has a body and a soul which we call science and religion. Contrary to popular perception, they are not opposed to each other but complement each other like body and soul. In fact, they can not exist without each other.
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