In this cynical age, perhaps a phrase such as "love conquers all" seems trite or even a bit misplaced, yet, this is as true to the path as any wisdom that could be given from one person to the next or from one generation to the next generation. In life, there is a hierarchy of lesser truth to the Highest of the highest truth, and this Truth is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. At the top of this pyramid is Love, because God is love, because "love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" (I Corinthians 13:7).
This can be a violent, corrupt, and brutal world, to which those in power or seeking such, will stop at absolutely nothing to have what they must have, but for every dog that has its day, for every dictator that gets his way, their way does not and will not ever last. Every great military power will be defeated whether from within or from without; so too will every bully be vanquished, as the kingdom that so many aim and seek for, is the type of kingdom to which the crown of such has at best, a hint of gold, but is tarnished thoroughly throughout.
Those that believe that a bullet stops love, or a sword, or rape, or fire and destruction, wrongly believe that all power rests in this worldly domain. Yet, the way of the Cross proves that beyond a doubt, that this could not possibly be true, that there indeed is a power far beyond man's power to kill, and that power is love, and love is God.
The path of so many is lived in darkness and the ignorance that they know everything, when in point of fact, they know so little, and what they do know, is often fundamentally flawed and wrong. Those that live in this darkness of seeing life as nothing more than a glorified animal kingdom, to which life is a zero sum society, and therefore they must kill or oppress or con others in order to live, are so far from the Flame of truth, that the chill of their faithlessness haunts them, and thereby they must deaden their conscience through drink or bad company or some such in order to cope with the twisted reality that they perceive.
The principle behind love is the exact same principle which is behind Light, and that principle is as straightforward as understanding that darkness does not and has not ever conquered Light, but darkness is the absence of Light, and nothing more. This means that when the darkness of man's ignorance and hubris faces that great chasm and braces itself for the fight of all fights, that the fight is over in the blink of an eye, because the intensity of light overcomes all darkness instantly, as if darkness never existed.
The goodness that you see expressed in the best of mankind through their generosity, their caring, their concern, their listening, their sacrifice, all these and more are the attributes which make up love. It is this love that is the fundamental key to re-uniting ourselves with the One who is love, and to thereby to find ourselves back in the very place where it all began.