Can the jargon of ‘loving everyone’ find a true meaning? Or is this statement of de Chardin even accurate and possible? Does ‘loving’ everybody mean being able to address everybody’s problems (people unknown to us), or is ‘loving’ an abstract emotion without actions? Can love apply outside of our family, or does the statement below help us understand the perpetuation of global injustice?
“Man’s capacity, it may seem, is confined to giving his affection to one human being or to very few. Beyond that radius the heart does not carry, and there is only room for cold justice and cold reason. To love all and everyone is a contradictory and false gesture which only leads in the end to loving no-one.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man