Teach hate or teach love?
Teach hate or teach love?
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
My evening thoughts. 
When we teach our children love and hate in the same conversation. Did we teach the children well? Hate and love is two different places. You can’t have both. You want your child to see his world with positive eyes and if you demand death, teach hate and cannot see the good in our world. Maybe you are the problem? My Ojibwa Grandmother taught me. Holding hate and disappointment. A heavy load to carry and the sadness will break your heart. Will blind you from the beauty of life. Be kind to the family, listen and forgive. A heart filled with love, can show the children. Every life is important and we can be brave. Do anything.
Dancing Coyote
1. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
2. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
3. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
4. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
5. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
6. “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
7. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”
8. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
I’ve never believed a human can hate without first knowing what it means to love. Not to mention that studies have shown that love and hate affect the same areas of the brain, only meaning that the stronger the love the stronger the hate.
Hatred is personal, the same with love. It’s always the risk with loving that you risk yourself having a heart blackened by hate.
I do believe the problem we face between humans is not hate, but fear and ignorance. We sometimes don’t want to see the truth in others, for fear that we might see ourselves. We sometimes want to be so divided from another, in the belief that someone else cannot understand us, so we say our pain is always different. It might be different in the situation, but not ever different in the emotions. Is it not those emotions affecting us? It is, so in order to heal, we must be willing to trust. We cannot be alone in our pain, because that only festers it. Even though emotions, especially vulnerable ones, can be manipulated, I still believe there is no greater wound than the gaps between people. It’s the space between each other that is the wound, so to speak. It is fear and ignorance. We are afraid to see what might be the same, and so we stick to our prejudices and our assumptions. We then remain ignorant of what is beneath the surface, because we’re content with seeing the book cover while never being brave enough to read the details in the pages. As writers, we all should be able to understand that last comparison.
What needs to be taught is to take a risk. Be bold, that is, to know people you might like or you might not. One cannot compel another to like someone else, because that’s the same as forcing them. Could you compel people to like each other, the same way as a rapist forces their victim to submit to only their pleasure? It’s the same thing. So, you could not teach love nor hate, without it being much like force. You can only teach people to take risks, to be open-minded, and that life is too short to stay ignorant.
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I agree my dear friend. But we must teach the children how to live right.
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Thank you, my friend.
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Wonderful statements of truth. I love ’em, John.
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Thank you Lamittan.
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Most welcome my friend John
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