SaintAugustine
At the Monastery
All you need is love..the Beatles..
God is love...1 John 4:18
Is forgiveness, love, acceptance..the final answers...??
God is love...1 John 4:18
Is forgiveness, love, acceptance..the final answers...??
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maybe love is the ultimate answer?
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Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
To what question?
mycorrhiza
Well-Known Member
Baby, don't hurt me?
I guess love towards every living being instead of love towards Mammon would be the answer.
blackout
Violet.
Lack of acceptance seems to go hand in hand with those who frequently purporte to love, and exault love the most.
Christians/Muslims and Homosexuality (also Transgender) for example.
People's notions of love differ so vastly
as to be completely useless as any kind of a 'standard'.
(of behavior, thoughts, feelings or anything else)
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blackout
Violet.
Sultan Of Swing
Well-Known Member
Lack of acceptance does not necessarily equate to no love.
Yes, I do believe so. Love is the ultimate reality once we cast off our ignorance. Forgiveness and acceptance are a product of loving.
Student of X
Paradigm Shifter
Yeah they are the final answers because they lead to the final transformation.
When love has carried us above and beyond all things, he says in another place, above the light, into the Divine Dark, there we are wrought and transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in idleness of spirit the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us and penetrating us. And this flight is nothing else but an infinite gazing and seeing. We behold that which we are, and we are that which be behold; because our thought, life and being are uplifted in simplicity and made one with the Truth which is God. 868
Student of X
Paradigm Shifter
42, obviously.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
As are the bliss-ninnies who usually profess that that extremely vaguely defined human emotion is somehow the "answer" to um, "stuff".
blackout
Violet.
When you love somebody,
you actually love them--
"them" being "who they actually are".
Lack of acceptance makes one unable to *love what is there*.
*love as in.... appreciate... support.... embrace... ummm.... accept....
but then,
these are the things the very illusive term mean to me.
(I certainly don't pretend to love everyone, BTW.
That seems like a rather silly and impossible goal.)
Reptillian
Hamburgler Extraordinaire
To which I reply, "whats love got to do, got to do, with it?" :Singing:
Sultan Of Swing
Well-Known Member
Now this isn't the greatest of examples, but let's take a parent whose son has become a murderer.
Sure, they may not accept the path their child has taken but by no means do they love him any less than any other parent loves their child.
One can still love another even if they don't fully accept them for who they are.
templetest
Member
Love is important. But you can't live on love alone. At least I've never seen anyone who has done it.
The things you listed are good, but over-rated many times.
SaintAugustine
At the Monastery
a love that forgives, and in most cases embraces, that accepts the differences in the other person.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
All things in moderation, for sure. That said, I am concerned about how people could set themselves up, psychologically, for failing to be loving enough or failing to be forgiving enough... etc... and the unnatural guilt that such unrealistic expectations could foster.