7. The Great Love
Vaclav Havel, who spent years in prison for his activism in helping to bring freedom to his country, once said, “Hope, in the deep and meaningful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”
“People who are used to seeing society only from above tend to be impatient,” Havel went on to say. “They want to see immediate results. Anything that does not produce immediate results seems foolish. They don’t have a lot of sympathy for acts which can only be evaluated years after they take place, which are motivated by moral factors, and therefore run the risk of never accomplishing anything.”
Mother Teresa spoke to the heart of liberating freedom when she said, “We cannot do great things in life; we can only do small things with great love.” Saving the world will come from hundreds of millions of people liberating freedom with the tiniest acts throughout the day with the “great love” Mother Teresa speaks of. That great love is born from a love of freedom, our own and others.