No cause is worth setting aside love, even for a second.
Love is the whole reason I’m in this cause (whatever the cause): love for my world, love for my fellow human beings, love for my society, love for my country, love for my team, my friends, my family, my children’s children’s children…
Love is the whole thing. My true loving nature is what got me into this.
If I lose my love, I lose the very thing I’m fighting for and I open myself to becoming the very things I’m fighting against: cruelty, unfairness, judgment, division, chaos, disorder… This is the madness I’m trying to stop. To lose my love is to fall into the madness and be swallowed up by it.
Loss of love is loss of everything. It’s the ultimate loss.
I cannot win without love, because without love, what I truly am is lost.
To hold onto love is THE win. To never lose awareness of the unsurpassable love-worthiness of another person - even in the face of their threats, insults, violence, even their apparent mission to destroy me - is the win.
My own true loving nature is the win.
The ultimate win.
And the only thing I ever really win in the end.