Peace and Love
2006-11-13 03:15:08 · 16 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No way.
2006-11-13 03:16:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I think you CAN, I just don't think you can do a very good JOB of it. Loving other people before you have come to love yourself is difficult at best and sometimes impossible. In learning to love yourself, you get to know yourself, and in that self-discovery comes the ability to relate to others in a different and more mature way. THEN, with wisdom and maturity (no matter at what age that comes for a person ) you can truly and fully love others.
2006-11-13 11:34:41 · answer #2 · answered by themom 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Loving also means sharing and giving of yourself. If you don't love yourself, you have little to give . . . ever noticed when some people walk into a room the room is filled with their presence and they just make everyone feel wonderful? ever notice when other people walk into the room, the life seems to be sucked out by their presence and no matter what you do, you can't infuse any life into that presence?
2006-11-13 11:49:07 · answer #3 · answered by whozethere 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you can, but it is a cycle that then makes you depressed, if you view others as more valuable than yourself and more worthy. You too are an important person, and equal to those around you. I also find that after painful breakups/bereavement, often once youve looked after yourself it is much easier to go back to being helpful and nice to other people.
Good Question! x
2006-11-13 12:08:14 · answer #4 · answered by lady_s_hazy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to climb the ladder step by step. First you have to love yourself and be in peace your life than you can love others. Because you have to have something in your heart to give them too.
2006-11-13 11:19:38 · answer #5 · answered by Zifikos 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 22:36-40
36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" 37 And He said to him, "'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 "This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 "The second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."
1 John 4:7-11
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
2006-11-13 11:22:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in GOD and love Him then you can love period. In order to love another, you have to love yourself. If you don't know the feeling of love of oneself, then how would one know the feeling of it for another. The power of love finalizes the search for ones quest for true peace.
2006-11-14 18:36:33 · answer #7 · answered by silhouette 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!..But I see you payed attention to my last answer..Thank you..You can say you LOVE you can even do a pretty good job of pretending to..But when it comes right down to it you simply can not do a very good job if you do not like, love and appreciate yourself first..Keep your cup full and it will runneth over..If you let your own cup dry out there simply will be nothing to give out..
2006-11-13 11:19:05 · answer #8 · answered by Littlebit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. As I said before it's easier to deal with others than with yourself.
2006-11-13 11:17:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe you can. I have depression & there were times I hated myself & my situation...but I've always loved & respected others.
2006-11-13 11:20:17 · answer #10 · answered by Ivyvine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
If you don't believe me, talk to my ex boyfriend. He "kind of" loves him mom, but that's it, and is doing everything he can to self destruct because he loathes himself. He flat out admits he doesn't love anyone and has no desire to.
2006-11-13 11:20:24 · answer #11 · answered by wyvern1313 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋