2007-02-17 11:41:00 · 16 answers · asked by Sarah H 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Different things to different people (as you can see from the answers). What would be "beautiful" to YOU? Actually, I wouldn't use the word beautiful, but that's perhaps the only way you could ask this question. Life is a journey, awesome, exciting, fascinating, serendipitous, unpredictable< (I think that was redundant). Metaphorically, opening ALL the doors & enjoying what IS without any discontent. Not as difficult as that may sound!
Edit: My favourite so far is Kimberly. I wouldn't use "soul," I'd use "spirit" but that's basically a matter of semantics. I think.
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2007-02-19 06:21:18 · answer #1 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A loving life is a beautyful life.
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-02-17 20:10:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Hi Wolfy. Power to the people!
To be comfortable with who you are, know your sense of self worth.
To never waste time wishing you had done something you have dreamt of doing, but get on and try it.
Accept people around you as they are, not as you want them to be.
Open your eyes and see the beauty around you.
Don't let anyone drag you down.
If you have messed up, know you can put it right!
Know you can do anything,
and if you don't try a challenge, you've failed before you start!
Never be fooled into thinking money brings happiness,
if you do, you're in for a fall...
EDIT: judging by all the thumbs down someone wants the answer, MONEY.
Or is it LOTUS EATING?
2007-02-18 04:27:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
To have lived a life where you are happy and content and have not destroyed any lives in the process.
2007-02-19 10:20:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No war
No discrimination
No Jobless
No Homeless
No Stravation
No Drug
No Aids
No Disease
No Crime
No Humiliation
No Global Warming
No Environment pollution
and all the negative things...NO...
2007-02-17 21:10:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Hi Wolfy,
"You".... The very idea that there is a you.... ;)
Everything, in harmony...with your.. expectations/views/nature/gifts .....etc..of Life..
>>>>>
The feeling, that "you" are really live "your life" ... ;)
Every soul on this planet, has a unique perception and view of life, and each has their own story to tell... They have astounding ability's of perception, and abstract views that can either result in a positive or negative cause and effect, enhancing life or destroying it all together...
Seeing what we do with our gifts make life worth living.... ;D
Thanks, for the question!;)
My regards!
Take care!
2007-02-17 20:11:39 · answer #6 · answered by Kimberly 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
In my view, living a beautiful life is laughing with friends, eating delicious food, and making your parents smile.
2007-02-17 20:06:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
When we are nearing the end, (of life), looking back, we will not care about how much money, what kind of car, how many toys… however, we will care about our relationships with others.
A beautiful life, then, is a life lived with compassion, sympathy, and consideration of others.
2007-02-17 20:04:26 · answer #8 · answered by steve_monroe_2005 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
We would probably live a "beautiful life" if we could follow these simple suggestions.
"O My Friend! Hear no evil, and see no evil, abase not thyself, neither sigh and weep. Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great; and wish not the abasement of anyone, that thine own abasement be not exposed. Live then the days of thy life, that are less than a fleeting moment, with thy mind stainless, thy heart unsullied, thy thoughts pure, and thy nature sanctified, so that, free and content, thou mayest put away this mortal frame, and repair unto the mystic paradise and abide in the eternal kingdom for evermore."
2007-02-17 21:34:19 · answer #9 · answered by apicole 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Like all things "beautiful" 'tis in the eye of the beholder.
2007-02-17 20:08:10 · answer #10 · answered by Sophist 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋