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
2007-03-16 02:18:26
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answered by Anonymous
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Friend,
my Life has been a mixture of everything until about five years back.It was full of all positive and negative qualities.
I did not actually felt the love,kindness etc ,In childhood,adolescence, adulthood and after my perception went on changing.
I learnt through parents and books that what we expect from others ,first I should do it.
I should not do that harms things that hurt others
Gradually patience,perseverance ,I cultivated.
Love means ALWAYS GIVING WHAT YOU HAVE UNCONDITIONALLY.
As the sun shines equally in all god and bad places without any expectation,our love shall be like that.
Forgiveness is the most wanted quality.Forgive,at least try to forgive finally you will forgive all.
The moral of life is LIVE AND LET OTHERS LIVE HAPPILY.TRY WHAT BEST YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE HAPPINESS OF OTHERS.LOVE ALL.
2007-03-16 11:14:52
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answered by Radhakrishna( prrkrishna) 7
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None at all.
I realised, quite rightly, that morality is the bane of society. That making a set of rote judgements about existence and then trying to bundle individual experiences into the closest matching set will cause no end of trouble.
Since abandoning morality and learning to judge each and every situation on its own merits, I feel I have become a far fairer and more objectively minded individual.
2007-03-16 09:44:08
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answered by Nihilist Templar 4
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Moral value? Achieved and lost.
2007-03-16 09:16:49
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answered by Expression 5
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Say tam bruayth Priam bruyath na bruath saytam apreyam priyam cha nanertham bruyath asha dhrama sanathana
2007-03-19 08:37:54
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answered by geet 4
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patience, trust and love are the keys for good living...and these both things give positive energy to human being.........
tolerance is necessary to live in this society..
fight with your ego and live life fully without it...
these are the three morals i learnt from life till now...
2007-03-18 15:36:03
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answered by Daffny 3
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One should decide his own morals and stick to them.
2007-03-16 14:55:19
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answered by Sharad 2
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You should not be straight forward and more realistic. And do not show more concern for others because you do not get it back. So do not expect any thing from others either relatives or friends. One more thing is, do not love others children as your own, because they do not love you to that extent.
Coming to other things, pray to God with full heart and faith, he will listen to you.
2007-03-18 12:00:56
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answered by durga v 2
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Be truthful to your own conscious and accept your weaknesses open heartedly and try to improve on yourself love yourself and be good and helpful to the possible people and circumstances and try not to cheat others in any manner which will disturb your conscience
2007-03-16 11:12:38
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answered by rema e 2
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do hard work earn and feed yourself and others,be good,kind towards others and do good to others,devoteyour life to god for giving opurtunity of taking birth as human in the world.
2007-03-17 04:15:07
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answered by patriotisam 3
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