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2007-11-11 01:52:58 · 7 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
imho... I can accept another person and not even like them. An example: I accept President Bush for who and what he is, and I do not like (or love) him.
2007-11-11 02:04:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is part of it. To unconditionally love somebody, you need to be able to accept them as they are. If you are trying to change a person, then it was not unconditional. Unconditional, to me, means no strings attached, no ulterior motives and without intent of changing the person to fit your ideals. That is acceptance and it's unconditional. Unconditonal love means also wanting what is best for a person and wanting them happy even if it is not what you want or will make you happy. Unconditional love means so many things... loving a person and standing by a person, believing in a person without any thought of how it will benefit you. I am finding it hard to come up with the exact words. In your heart, you love that person no matter what.
2007-11-11 03:34:05 · answer #2 · answered by Breezey is saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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
2007-11-11 01:56:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love people, even if I do not agree with them all the time. It is not my place to say if someone is living a good/bad life. There are all types of love.
2007-11-11 02:03:25 · answer #4 · answered by Celtickarma 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. Love is an action. Acceptance is a state of mind.
2007-11-11 01:56:19 · answer #5 · answered by sisterzeal 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have to love first.
2007-11-11 01:58:18 · answer #6 · answered by Ace of Spades 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No...that shower another with Love....only you can have that with one person...
2007-11-11 01:58:08 · answer #7 · answered by babo1dm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋