2006-11-21 02:03:03 · 21 answers · asked by goodbye 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes, just hold a baby.
2006-11-21 04:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by SteveUK 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but that kind of love is beyond what most people are capable of, so that you have to look to mystics like Echart Tolle to find it. The problem is that as long as a human being is identified with the conceptual mind, unconditional love is simply impossible because we think in dualities. So if we think love is good, for example, then we will also think that hate is bad, and then we will run up against a stumbling block in trying to love those who hate. Unconditional love for a person is only possible if you could love them no matter what they became, but because we hold to some things as being good, and some things as being bad, there will always be something that the person you love could, in theory, become that you wouldn't be able to love. So you don't love them unconditionally, because your love depends on them being a certain way.
That is why the only way to achieve unconditional love is to go beyond the dualisitic mind, and the only ones who ever do this are mystics. So, if you do not believe the essential mystical claim that it is possible to go beyond the dualistic mind, then essentially you will have no choice but to conclude that unconditional love is impossible (because, again, as long as we hold to dualistic concepts, there will always be something we can't accept or love).
2006-11-21 10:12:12 · answer #2 · answered by Nitrin 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If I would further define "unconditional" as free of both external and self imposed , I would say that unconditional love could exist.As in my case , atleast.
Many times, when love blossoms , we tend to assign or superimpose certain conditions.Even with our children. We love them most . But, somewhere lurks the 'expectations ' from that relationship.. Such expectations are nothing but self imposed conditions.
I found that I could ( and get back) pure unconditional love from my grandchildren! I have no committment towards them . It their parents` responsibility. They expect nothing from me and I, nothing but love. It is great feeling.
To beloved and to be wanted is the single greatest grace in life.
2006-11-21 10:23:50 · answer #3 · answered by YD 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it does. I love my wife and children unconditionally. Would I do the hard things I would have to do in order to do what's best for them at times? Yes. If my kids chose to live at home and be bums, I would kick them out of the house, but that's because I love them unconditionally and will always do what's best for THEM. Unconditional love doesn't mean you have a license to hurt that person over and over.
2006-11-21 10:05:35 · answer #4 · answered by It's Me 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Compassion, be it in the concise of man, or in the form of God. Compassion is unconditional love.
2006-11-21 10:31:46 · answer #5 · answered by Eric G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ya. i had in my life, never meet, seen but unconditional do exist.
2006-11-21 10:30:59 · answer #6 · answered by patadiakm 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Jesus is the greatest example of that. He loves us no matter what we do. He asked God to forgive those who were crucifying him.
2006-11-21 10:21:19 · answer #7 · answered by laurel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes; my children,mother,dog, cat, fish & bird loves me uncondishionaly.you may not have children or you would understand that it does exsist.I can be mad at my children.but if someone talked bad about them I would defend my children even if I new they were in the rong.and if someone tryied to hurt them I would shurly die for them.So yes, yes & yes.
2006-11-21 10:24:06 · answer #8 · answered by plantlady159 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes,as a state of consciousness.It is neither easy nor difficult.
2006-11-21 20:50:07 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It probably does..you just have to have patience..something most women dont have because they want instant gratification ...but both partners have to have commitment..and trust
2006-11-21 10:05:24 · answer #10 · answered by Michelle 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋