the lover and the beloved

[donq]

A woman cries as she comforts her son after learning she has to leave a bus which was reserved for the evacuation of orphans fleeing the ongoing Russian invasion outside the main train station in Lviv, Ukraine (from from Reuters)

They asked the Lover: ‘What is the world?’
He answered: ‘It is a book for such as can read, in which is revealed my Beloved.’
They asked him: ‘Is thy Beloved, then, in the world?’
He answered: ‘Yea, even as the writer is in his book.’
‘And wherein consists this book?’
He answered: ‘In my Beloved, since my Beloved contains it all, and therefore is the world in my Beloved rather than my Beloved in the world.’
-the book of the lover and the beloved by Ramón Lull (1232–1316)

When I was a young man, after seeing the photos like the above, I might say they were trying to play with human emotions/hearts. But after I've got old I think, at least, they're doing something better than me, because I'm just sitting here, very far away from it, and doing nothing.

P.S. The caption from my previous post on another thread is:
Donations from Polish residents are offered to refugees close to the Medyka border crossing. (from UNHCR/Chris Melzer)

[gruntal]

Human beings are not used to investing their all, including their ego, in any one thing.. The risk of betrayal is too great. I suppose an ideal is okay but that very ideal morphs upon our understanding of it.

We do try to help in bits and pieces. It is better then nothing. To ask God to make it all right denies what we might be doing to make it all wrong.

[donq]

Hi George,

Haven't seen you here for a while. Hope you are okay.

What made Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, saved more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust? (and it's a true story).
As Talmudic quotation: "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire".



And what made Poland accepted 2,780,913 Ukrainian refugees?
More than that, where did Polish solidarity with refugees from Ukraine come from? What inspired them to make those donations to refugees close to the Medyka border crossing?
It seems goodness and kindness are not dead yet. Really. We still can see some stars, in the very black, dark night.

Take care,
monty