Love and Compassion

Love is the greatest force in the Universe.
Compassion is the greatest virtue.

There is a reason that I do not fear contact with civilizations beyond our Earth.

For any civilization to have survived long enough to develop sufficiently so that they can go visiting other planets and meet other beings would first have to resolve most of their problems. In order to solve their problems, they would have to hold Love and Compassion in the highest regard. They would have to develop their personal and societal capacities for Love and Compassion to a very high level.

Right now we can look around us at our sisters and brothers here on Earth. We see people rushing from place to place to place with barely a thought towards Love and Compassion.

We observe that these people who are too busy fail to think for themselves, choosing instead to have their thinking done for them.
When a person's thinking is fundamentally based on a consumer entertainment product (radio and television), the substance of the thoughts that the person holds tends to be very narrow and rigid. Narrow and rigid thought is polarized thought. Right or wrong. White or black. Yes or no.

Polarized or 'binary' thinking leads to a judgmental nature because any topic must fit into one or the other category. No gray areas allowed! It is very difficult to have great compassion while being judgmental.
People get upset that the taxes they pay on their income go to help families that, for whatever reason, are not capable of helping themselves. And yet they ignore the fact that vast majority of the taxes they pay go to fund weaponry to kill human beings. Why are they not upset about that?
It's because in supporting both cases, a lack of compassion is required.

To rise above our challenges, to move humanity forward to the point where we as a species are collectively ready to meet beings from outside our own little spaceship Earth, we need to learn to Love unconditionally and to help each other unconditionally.

Human beings need to begin believing in a state of plenty and prosperity. In order to do that, we will need to use the force of Love and the virtue of compassion.