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The most important thing in my life is LOVE.
And 'giving it away' - to others, is the real treasure. If I get it back in return, then that is a blessing, but if not, I'm happy to go on giving it anyway.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
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Chipmunk
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Thats very sweet patience,If only everyone was like this.
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Gecko
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Thanks Freespirit, I believe that most people really want to do this, but often anger and resentment get in the way. We are only human, but if it helps, I have found that it is very difficult NOT to love people once you have really looked into their faces. I believe that eyes really are the 'windows to the soul' and when you truly 'LOOK' at someone, you will see either love, or pain.
The love is easy to return, and the pain can help you to understand why the 'love' isn't there, and then you can feel compassion.
That's how it works for me!
May you always find the love.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
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You're all missing the point....
When you die, you'll have to give it ALL up....There is no selection here...If You are Christian, God's Love and your Love for God, is eternal - there is nothing therefore, to GIVE up.... it will continue after you leave this Mortal Coil....
If you are a non-Christian, the only things (through logical extension of thought) that you would have to give up, are material...and attachment to material things is attachment to the impermanent - including your own Life.
As a Buddhist I am attached to some things, but in a non-grasping, non-clinging, non-desperate way - I have them now, I treasure them. I will have to give them up, so I have already let them go....
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Chipmunk
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I have found that it is very difficult NOT to love people once you have really looked into their faces
The above sentence you wrote struck a chord in me....I get moments like this when I look at someone and feel so much love and the weird thing is that I do not "know" the person from a bar of soap.
What you say makes alot of sense and it is how I have always been myself.
Dont ever change who you are - I think you are on the right path...
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Zebra
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Dont ever change who you are - I think you are on the right path... You betcha....I second that remark - !!
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Shark
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The most important things in my life are my husband, children and grandchildren. I cannot understand why some people would put the deity ahead of their loved ones!
"Look beyond the disability, see the perfection of the soul". RJG
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I can put God first because my family is a gift from God, without God I would never have received them. Without God I never would have known how to love them. Without God I would not be here.
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You are entitled to you opinion Carennedy, but I doubt that God has much to do with us being here or not!
"Look beyond the disability, see the perfection of the soul". RJG
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Parakeet
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It makes more sense to me then coming from some ooze out of the sea by chance.
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