I was pleased to see a news article this morning with a refreshing point of view from one of the world’s most influential people. über billionaire Warren Buffett, in an interview with Yahoo! News and The Huffington Post, says the best advice he ever received was from his father, who taught him the power of unconditional love.

Buffett says, “I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love. And I think that if you offered that to your child, I mean you’re 90 percent of the way home. There may be days when you don’t feel like it, it’s not uncritical love, that’s a different animal, but to know you can always come back, that is huge in life. That takes you a long, long way.”

See full article here: http://tinyurl.com/24q27g3

How powerful would it be, if we put this into practice, not only with our children but with others in general?

I don’t know if Mr. Buffett is a spiritual man, but I highly suspect he is. And if you take one look at his charitable efforts, you can see the power of his attempt to love unconditionally. It’s nice when an accomplished businessman who is successful by every definition of the word, points to something as God-given as unconditional love as the key to his kingdom.  Obviously, it isn’t likely that we’ll attain unconditional love for all those we encounter, but if that is where we’re aiming, I can’t help but think we will get closer to the mark more often.