Unconditional Love

[ShaneAcoustique]

FAG

[earth2k8]

"Is it possible for the rose to say,'I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad'? Or is it possible for the lamp to say, 'I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people'? Or can a tree say, 'I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but will withhold it from the bad'? These are the images of what love is about." --Anthony De Mello, 1931-1987, Jesuit Priest

[jaimemcfarland]

Unconditional love is "seeing" yourself in all of life's creations

[Alexknobsob]

Throwing off the centuries of Victorian Conditioning has been the "middle-class" nightmare as we emerge from the Industrial Age into Being as known by the Ancients. But all this happens naturally when the conditions are right.

[paulgwj]

This is something I really needed to hear, but the skeptic inside of me will always say "yeah you know this now, but still nothing will change". If I let myself just be and not try to change, won't I continue down the same unhappy path?

[forgetfulgod]

To be is to change.

[paulgwj]

How do you figure?

I'm not asking to be contradictory, but rather so I can truly understand what you mean.

[Mork5]

yeah

acceptance reveals compassion

by withdrawing conditions

that are likely to hide connections

and all the possibilities to connect

[yadiddatmee]

wow...u really are me, i cant believe u made this when u did..,this is what i needed to hear me tell myself....this is real

[LittleBlueBird]

'Let yourself be' - that's a winner. I loved that. Thank you, as naturally as the explanation you gave sounds, I needed to hear this.

[renandstimpyfanlol]

you love i too :)