It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like,and something in our sweetheart that we dislike. It is this entanglement of moods which makes us old, and puckers our brows and deepens the furrows about our eyes. If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them. But until that day their untiring joys and sorrows must ever be one-half of their fascination. Love with them never grows weary, nor can the circles of the stars tire out their dancing feet.
- William B. Yeats, 1902

Dear Phyllis,

Why should there be love and hate? Why not only Love?
One way I found to not hate is through loving kindness.
It often happens that people stare at me ,being a very strong Alpha male.I once wrote that somewhere else that I used Lady Gaga
latest album ,Born this way. Her best song is :This is who I am:
So I use that phrase,when meeting eyes that do not connect well with mine.What I say is : This is who he is!works miracles.
I do not beleive in hate in life.

With Loving Kindness
_/\_
a simple buddhist named
Loong

Greetings Loong,

I agree with you, there should be only love and this is what Lantern Carriers bring to the world. A Lantern Carrier, in my mind, is one who spreads light and love to others in hopes that this will eventually reach around the world to everyone. Many, such as yourself and my son, follow a faith that already lives that way, through love.

It was William B. Yeats who wrote that about love and hate and he wrote it in 1902. I believe there was not much emphasis back then on the amazing power of love for all.

Most Native American peoples still hold true to themselves as their ancestors once did, that we are all relatives, the two-legged, the four-legged, the winged, the rooted, and love is the key to living and walking in harmony and balance with all creation.

Regardless of which religion, faith, belief system one has, there is a common ground of the desire for world peace. Lantern Carriers can be of any faith or belief system, and they have dreams. It is time, long past time, that all stand together, all races, and focus on world peace.

I am a dreamer and have been called naive for that. A major part of my belief system is that dreams are the hopes for the future, born of memories and tears of the past. Look at any child and in his or her eyes, heart, and hopes you will see the future. In the children, this Garden of the Creator, my dream is for Lantern Carriers to plant the proper seeds, nourish them and protect them for the future of our children and generations to come.

So - yes, surely I dream and my dreams are bright. No achievement is ever realized without first having a dream.

PS: I eliminated the word hate from my thoughts many years ago and only use it as in reference to someone else's writings or sayings. When young, I used that word often to describe how I felt about something I strongly disliked. Since I stopped using the word the emotions connected to it have faded.

Second PS: I am glad you responded to that writing, for I was going to end it with the question to anyone: "What do you think about what Yeats wrote and would you change anything if you had written it?"

I wanted to know the opinions of others, for I, myself, would have worded it a little differently. Although Yeats is one of my favorite writers of all time, I was surprised he used that phrase.