On Enough Love

      Several decades ago 20th Century metaphysical teacher and author, Emmet Fox, wrote a short essay entitled, simply, “Love,” which has never left the attention of spiritual students. Less than 200 words, it holds some of the most powerful ideas to be found anywhere. It reads, in part, “There is no difficulty that enough love well not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem…If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.”

How much love...

Now, how much love would this take, and how could we access it? Would this mean that we would have to recognize this healing and attracting force as the only power worthy of our attention? Would it mean that we would have to give up all ideas of negativity, hatred and anger to pursue the practice of love alone? Probably so…and could we do this? Would we do this? Or is this only a possibility for great saints?

Compelling enough...

Obviously Fox thought it could be done; otherwise he would not have posted this essay. Obviously it is compelling enough to remain in the forefront of peoples’ consciousness all these years. This can only mean that we, ourselves, shall be the arbiters of how much attention, how much time, how much energy, how much thought we will give to being “the happiest and most powerful being in the world.”

Will we fail...

Will we fail? Often, and sometimes dismally. Will we succeed? Sometimes and with some real magnificence. Should we forget the whole thing as being too difficult for regular folks? Not for a minute.

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