Dear Olga--thank you for sharing the view from Hungary, where, as you
said so well, you have reason to know whereof you speak. To refuse
to hate and be able to love under those conditions shows a strength
of spirit which we need in the world. It reminds me of something a
friend just sent me, a quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who
led the non-violent struggle for civil rights here in America--- you
may know of him:
>Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
>cannot drive out hate; only love can >do that. Hate multiplies hate,
>violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in
>a >descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of
>evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing >more wars--must be
>broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
>----Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.
Olga wrote:
>Especially to Camilla, Carole and Everybody who were talking and thinking in
>these nightmare-days NOT ONLY about own diseases and pains, BUT also about
>OTHER people's pains, even they were not PD sufferers:
>
>THESE CLAPTRAPS WERE THE MOST HUMAN REACTIONS AND THESE IMPROVED THE PARKYS
>LISTMEMBERS HUMAN DIGNITTY AND SOCIAL SENSIBILITY.
>
>And I know very well that to type with these "capitals" means in the
>e-mailing ethic shouting - yes, I wanted to shout it
>so as everybody could hear me.
>
>Believe me, I'm right. I've grown up in such a world what - fortunately -
>most of you cannot imagine. Under the communist regime every year (it were45
>years...) we had to celebrate even the anniversary of the occupation of our
>country! We had also the celebrate the Soviets's anniversaries, we were
>forced to live on that way what they did determind for us. There were no
>more privacies, there were no more private properties - they have stolen
>these. And they have stolen the lives of thousands and millions, and not
>only their lives but even their future and their dreams, too. They told us
>in my childhood and later my children that there was no God, there were no
>Santa Claus, there was no nationality only internationality, - so people,
>believe me! To remain a Human Being, a feeling, living soul is very simply
>and even so hard: to be as emphatic and
>helpful and filled with love as much place is in your heart. And the
>capacity of the human heart is endless...!
>This is one of those things what I've learnt during these dark years, I've
>learnt to love as much as I can. Everybody. Every creature of God - even
>them, too. I do not hate them, most of that regime's men were poor in their
>spirit and in their mind, I think.
>
>Do not forget: your ability to love is endless.
>
>God Bless You All!
>
>Olga Maria
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Camilla Flintermann Oxford,OH
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