2006-09-24 14:37:21 · 9 answers · asked by bobkgins_sock_puppet_2 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why would anyone want to?
If we weren't self-centered, we wouldn't survive as a species.
Go try loving an alligator or tiger unconditionally and see what happens to you.
2006-09-24 14:42:03 · answer #1 · answered by Left the building 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Experience unconditional love. Once it has been modeled for us, and we experience being deeply loved selflessly, we can offer unconditional love.
Hard to give away that which you have no practical knowledge of.
2006-09-24 21:43:12 · answer #2 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All you have to do is be grateful for what you have.If not, realize that whatever u love could be loss and that would cause u to see its true value.Then u will be able to love selflessly.
2006-09-24 21:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by kellogs 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Love unconditionally. This means love everyone without using love as a weapon instead, as something to be withheld if they displease you. Judge as you want to be judged.
Matthew 22:36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'[b] 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[c] 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
1 Corinthians 13:1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 John 4:7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son[b] into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for[c] our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
2006-09-24 21:43:13 · answer #4 · answered by The_answer_person 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means no matter how obvious our limitations are to try and not serve ourselves our flesh first, when circumstances, problems, issues arise that will allow us to serve others while putting ourselves second, that we should make a concerted effort to think (the act will follow) of others first. I believe it starts with your mind.
2006-09-24 21:43:16 · answer #5 · answered by LIVINGmylife 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A frontal lobotomy should work.
2006-09-24 21:42:53 · answer #6 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
become less human
2006-09-24 21:42:10 · answer #7 · answered by mel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can't.... the flesh inhibits us
2006-09-24 21:39:29 · answer #8 · answered by pink9364 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we really can.
2006-09-24 21:38:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋