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"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation"

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Jackson reaches for a utopia that sounds simple until you notice how carefully it dodges specifics. “Let us dream of tomorrow” frames love not as a private feeling but as a collective project, a rallying cry in soft-focus. It’s future tense on purpose: tomorrow is where ideals can live without having to answer messy questions about power, harm, or accountability today. That’s not a flaw; it’s how pop prophecy works. The line is designed to be sung into stadium air, to let millions share a single, clean aspiration.

“Truly love from the soul” is classic Jackson vocabulary: purity, essence, the inner child. It’s spiritual without being religious, moral without being legal. The subtext is redemption-through-sincerity, an insistence that the deepest self is untouched by the world’s noise. When he calls love “the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation,” he’s going full cosmic, widening the frame so far that argument feels almost impolite. If love is ontology, then doubt becomes a kind of profanity.

Context matters because Jackson’s public life was a constant battle over innocence, intimacy, and how much of a person the culture is allowed to own. His best humanitarian-era messaging (“Heal the World,” “Man in the Mirror”) operated the same way: grand, nonpartisan language that invites you to feel ethically awakened without telling you exactly what to do. The intent isn’t policy; it’s permission - to believe, briefly, that tenderness can outsing history.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jackson, Michael. (2026, January 18). Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/let-us-dream-of-tomorrow-where-we-can-truly-love-17128/

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Jackson, Michael. "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/let-us-dream-of-tomorrow-where-we-can-truly-love-17128/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/let-us-dream-of-tomorrow-where-we-can-truly-love-17128/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009) was a Musician from USA.

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