Article August 13, 1990 Issue

While alert to the shadow side of life, spiritual...

William Sloane Coffin

Lear's

From Lear's, Volume 2, Number 9, December 1989

While alert to the shadow side of life, spiritual people also refuse to tolerate the intolerable. Simply put, they believe we are here on earth to make it a better place.

It is too bad Descartes didn't write "Amo, ergo sum"—"I love, therefore I am." For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature. There is no smaller package in the world than that of a person all wrapped up in himself. We can deny it, stifle it, yet still it lives, this love, in each and every one of us, though the odds are often crushing against its continued burning.

William Sloane Coffin

Reprinted with the author's permission.

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