Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
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I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, all the Happiest Holidays and all the luck the New Year could possibly bring to you.
2007-12-23 22:26:09 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Who wrote that, it's beautiful..........may I wish you and yours, a very safe, loving and wonderful Christmas and New Year..........that really was beautiful........
2007-12-23 22:29:31 · answer #1 · answered by mac 6 · 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.
2007-12-23 23:34:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world/your world will know peace"!! This message makes a lot of sense in personal relationships as well.
If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers…Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
"Love is the only force capable of turning an enemy into a friend."
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it.
A very merry Christmas, and may the season bring joy and peace and good will.
Midnight~Angel :)
2007-12-23 23:06:38 · answer #3 · answered by Midnight_Angel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and it is in every bodies power to do just that, only power is what most people want ..
2016-04-10 22:56:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
But don't be so sure about love of power being a bad thing. I'd love to be an orchestral conductor. Oh, the power I would have.
2007-12-23 22:40:26 · answer #5 · answered by Joe Bloggs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a million times more than what you just described. good luck finding proper, true love. Merry Christmas. xxx
2007-12-23 22:30:00 · answer #6 · answered by Chewyconor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love dose not crave power, the need for power is the replacement for the lack of love.
2007-12-24 03:26:20 · answer #7 · answered by Mogollon Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Much love and respect to you
Merry Christmas
2007-12-23 22:41:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No because George Bush will fall in love with a nuclear bomb.
2007-12-23 22:36:40 · answer #9 · answered by hillary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Powe of Luv , Love of Power...the common denominator is Power. Love is a word. so is Power..
2007-12-23 23:28:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋