The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
2007-02-19 11:21:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
good point
2007-02-19 11:23:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once came to a realization that if a fire occurred in my childhood house, I would lose most or all of my toys. I felt then that I was more able to detach myself from my things.
By realizing I can lose both things and people, I exercise a sense of detachment. I feel more able to let people go, to give up possessions.
At times, I have left almost everything behind and moved on to a very different locale, different in climate, in language, as extreme a change as going from a metropolis to the rural Far North, or from the Eastern Seaboard to a Southwest Asian desert.
I am at a point of life where I may again change, from being with my wife and two children, to leaving them overseas to live in a cold Northern City.
2007-02-19 19:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many ways to love. In all cases, love may seem infinite but our material existence is finite. Thus, in truth, yes, everything as we know it during our material existence will be lost in a sense. Lost in the sense that we cannot possess or have something forever. Even within our lifetimes people and things come and go.
But I do not think that we should define something solely by it's limits. We may be limited in the sense that we can truly know or love oneanother and we may be finite beings but that should not stop us from living. Perhaps things such as love and youth are our moments of eternity.
2007-02-19 19:28:48 · answer #3 · answered by Alex K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that is a nice way to look at things because you are never promised anything. Everything can be taken away from you. Your job, your spouse, your children, your health. Everything. I think it would make you cherish what you do have more if you realize that it may be lost in the future. I think it will make your relationships and your love for other people stronger.
2007-02-19 19:32:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I checked out Gilbert K. Chesterton - his quotes are
excellent. When he wrote these, is even more amazing.
2007-02-19 19:26:32 · answer #5 · answered by Calee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meditation on the concept of impermanence is a great way to learn to understand how our attachments and aversions in this life are wholly illogical... it's a great step on the path to enlightenment from a Buddhist perspective... so you could say it might not be a bad way to think... not completely but hey...
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2007-02-19 19:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is certainly the way to look at the people that God created. As Christians, we are the hands and feet of Jesus. It doesn't matter how they act or what they think of us. We were all lost until we realized that Jesus died for us because of all of the sins that we have committed. It is our job to love people enough to tell them about His sacrifice for them and of God's free gift of Salvation for the lost..
2007-02-19 19:32:37 · answer #7 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is kinda a sad quote I prefer Live and Let Live I have no source though
2007-02-19 19:36:36 · answer #8 · answered by hobo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a good way to look at life?!
2007-02-19 19:25:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything materialistic can be lost in an instant...store your treasures in heaven where they will be safe.
2007-02-19 19:26:36 · answer #10 · answered by B"Quotes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Always look on the light side of life"
Eric Idle
2007-02-19 19:25:59 · answer #11 · answered by molly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋