2007-12-14 22:09:20 · 8 answers · asked by gie ann 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I am here to get this right then I get to go back home.
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
2007-12-15 01:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It used to be all about me, but I have a child now so that has totally changed my purpose on this planet. I still live for me, but not without caution or planning. She must be taken care of first now and in the future when I'm gone because after all...she didn't ask to be here. That was my doing. But aside from her, my purpose is to NOT contribute to as much dysfunction to society as possible, so I learn all I can and recluse as much as possible.
2007-12-15 07:04:24 · answer #2 · answered by siava101 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That question requires God.
“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell
I think that if God exists, that He must have put our intense need for purpose into our human nature to point us to seek Him.
If we reject God, then all we can do is to invent some activities that give us happy feelings and then pretend that those activities are the reason why we exist.
2007-12-15 07:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My purpose is to find out what I am and to do what I must.
2007-12-15 06:17:19 · answer #4 · answered by S.I.O.(UA) 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
purpose???as i am alive I have to lead my life.as I have to lead my life I have to live a cool life and to lead my life satisfactorily I have to make others happy and satisfied.
2007-12-15 06:19:47 · answer #5 · answered by kajari c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To forgive myself for my mistakes and to grow from them, to live each day as though it were a gift (because it is a gift) to be the best that i can, to love as though ill never get hurt, to believe in myself and give to those who have less than me....
to love Jesus Christ and share that love with people who dont know him so that one day i can be in his prescense, in heaven..
2007-12-15 06:14:49 · answer #6 · answered by Kika 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
knowing the real truth through the study of Upanished's books
2007-12-15 12:05:03 · answer #7 · answered by magiccosmosline 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to remember my oneness with all of humanity and to dispose of separation/darkness/sin/evil/etc...choose any word opposite love...i believe, we are all here to co-create and be as ONE!
2007-12-16 10:54:18 · answer #8 · answered by picmybrain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋