Loving humanity can solve every problem in the world.
But to love humanity, you first have to see it clearly.
Human beings are immensely complicated animals. We can be confident or insecure, humble or proud, loyal or treacherous…
And the societies we form together are more complicated and more varied still.
Yet human beings are, above all, lovable animals. Everything we show the world — the good and the bad alike — belongs to the creature we are. And if the bad belongs to humanity too, then loving the bad is just another way of loving humanity itself.
It is an abstract idea, and not an easy one to accept: love humanity — all of humanity.
That person hurt me, but I love them; that person betrayed me, but I love them; that person deceived me, but I love them.
Not because of anything they brought into my life, but because I love them as they are — neither good nor bad.
I love them because I know this is simply what human beings are: vivid, unpredictable. What a marvel.
Inside each small individual lies a mystery as unfathomable as the one the vast universe holds out to me.
But I don’t need to understand why they treated me the way they did. I only need to love humanity.
Love without conditions is the greatest force in the universe.