Like a epiphany, where something a concept or a feeling made complete sense without the presense of any doubt? What was yours?
2007-02-25 11:29:28 · 9 answers · asked by Matticus Kole 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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
2007-02-25 13:56:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
I was standing on a clifftop in Algonquin National Park looking out over the landscape (sparkling lake, acres of majestic pine trees) and I felt this overwhelming sense of joy. I realized that it is such a beautiful world and that no matter what bad things happen (all the stress & drudgery of work etc, all the tragedies and crime & ugliness in the world) there is still so much to be happy about, so much to enjoy & explore. I felt the embrace of God. I realized that I was ok. I was glad to be alive. I realized that we are children of the earth & that the further we get from nature, the more depressed we become, the closer we get to nature, to our roots, the happier, more tranquil and fulfilled we feel.
It is a beautiful world. It brings tears of joy to my eyes when I remember the beauty that I have experienced. I have my photos & paintings to remind me. I have the memories. I have to see more when I have time (& when the weather is nicer) I have to go hiking again, to go back into the woods. It is impossible to be sad when I'm surrounded by trees. That is my zen. That is my epiphany. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, I am a child of the universe & it is an extraordinarily beautiful world.
2007-02-25 19:40:51 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, and for a moment I understood the Theory of Relativity. But it passed.
2007-02-25 19:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had moments when everything is clear.
It even seems i understand the meaning of life, I have in this clarity written down my thoughts.
Although because of this moment, i have written only in simple words, not expressing myself fully, as not to break/loose the moment of the clarity.
Unfortunately when the moment has passed. even the words seem not to make sense.
And i kick myself why i didn't write down more to that moment.
2007-02-25 19:42:59 · answer #4 · answered by A Lady Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes actually, in the third grade!..
well something quite embarrassing happened to me (embarrassing for a 3rd grader), this kid meghan who i wouldnt tell who i liked, and we were just joking around, said that i must like michael (lots of kids did), because i wouldnt tell her, i said no but she just kept persisting.
by the end of recess she was talking about it for bunches of people to here and when people asked me about it i just told them honestly no. even michael asked i said sorry no,
sitting in the dark room after recess i was so worried everyone would be talking about it, but then i looked around and realized, like i had been, everyone was so wrapped up in themselves, and what others thought about them to really notice or care about my predicament, it was a moment of lucidity, especially for a kid so young, and i pretty much smiled to myself and worked peacefully and uncaring the rest of the day.
2007-02-25 20:06:29 · answer #5 · answered by JulyBeetle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have one several times, however they always leave me as fast as they come. it is like a wind is flowing through me. sometimes i can hold a gust long enough to understand, but they always get away frpm me.
2007-02-25 19:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by glass. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, several, but only when I'm stoned
2007-02-26 09:33:48 · answer #7 · answered by BANANA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not yet, but I think I've come close.
2007-02-25 20:40:49 · answer #8 · answered by Seok-Ju K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES! when I am listening to Pink Floyd........
2007-02-25 19:41:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋