“We Must Love One Another, Or Die”

“`We must love one another or die,’ wrote W.H. Auden in his poem, September 1, 1939. The name of his poem, pointedly, is the date of the Nazi invasion of Poland. His line was an exhortation to summon the better angels of our nature even as the darkness descends.”

I got that paragraph this morning in my email and was inspired.

Every morning, I ask myself why I’m getting up. What is the purpose? And it has to be selfish.

There is nothing wrong with selfishness. Selfishness can save the world…as long as our sense of “self”…