2007-11-22 14:21:02 · 11 answers · asked by Astro 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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
2007-11-22 14:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Love's dream is free. It moves and it soars into the sky. It is looking for the best in everything and everyone.
2007-11-22 22:44:48 · answer #2 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
does an emotion have a sub conscious without a mind? Or are you asking us to consider "love" as a title to another conscious entity?
If you are asking what my version of loves dream is I am quite certian that each of us have a unique experience of this emotion.
2007-11-22 22:25:28 · answer #3 · answered by Old guy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Loves [God] dream is always love, not anything at all.
2007-11-23 01:06:42 · answer #4 · answered by lalachi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is an emotion, it is a state of mind, not an activity of the mind while one sleeps.
2007-11-22 23:08:50 · answer #5 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Love's dream is to be one with me.
And I, her.
Since we all represent the All, I'd say as below, so above.
2007-11-22 23:02:17 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
to spread sunshine hope and faith and charity too and to share a love that is eternal.............
To be around people old and some new and to have touched them in some way that they will be aware and enlightened and their hearts filled with love and caring :))))
2007-11-22 22:50:51 · answer #7 · answered by Rita 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ideas and emotions only describe human behavior; they are incapable of actually expressing it.
2007-11-22 23:15:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be given freely, and accepted unconditionally!
"May we all live in Unity."
2007-11-22 22:27:03 · answer #9 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Separation from itself but it's more like a nightmare.
2007-11-22 22:27:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋