2007-05-27 03:44:33 · 13 answers · asked by #4 due May 2010 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The trait would be empathy. In a world filed with so many "me" personality types, it is rare to find someone who truly seeks to see, feel and relate to others based upon how the other feels, reacts, aspires.
2007-05-27 03:52:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Love. 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
2007-05-27 10:49:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
To do something unexpected every now and again. Not to always be stuck in a rut and be totally predictable.
Never try hot mustard. I just did, it's horrible.
2007-05-27 19:57:00 · answer #3 · answered by sweet & sour 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
:) :) Hospitality. I was raised to be hospitable to all, especially when they came into your house.
People now a days are rude. They have forgotten how to be gracious. People think they are the center of all the world.
Not everyone can be.
:) :)
2007-05-27 22:31:02 · answer #4 · answered by lostagain1701 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A rational mind.
2007-05-27 10:55:57 · answer #5 · answered by Mystine G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my ability to not hold judgment against someone for what other people have done...
a lot of people tend to hold against new people they meet, with what someone else has done to them..
ie... a guy cheats on a girl... the girl holds it against every guy she meets
2007-05-27 11:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by red.one9luv 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would blindfold them with ignorance so i could take over the world.
2007-05-27 12:24:01 · answer #7 · answered by The Phat Whale 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ability to forgive.
2007-05-27 11:28:28 · answer #8 · answered by Pammie aka Lil Miss Perky 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To be able to truly understand the futiliy of religion
2007-05-27 12:03:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
~~~ Compassion for all the stray animals all over the world. If more people cared I wouldn't be so tortured worrying about them. ~~~
2007-05-27 11:22:06 · answer #10 · answered by donelle g. 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋