unconditional love
"They asked her:
"Do you love God?"
She answered:
"Yes, I do"
They asked if she hated the Satan..
She said:
"no"
Confused they insisted - "How can someone have love for God, but not hate his enemy? The source of all wrong"
So she answered:
"My heart is filled with love for the Lord and love only, there lives no room for hate"
CODE: UN-LOVE
It's a project I have been working on. Been quite a while now experimenting with different techniques and solutions. Bringing the matter to your attention I've received some positive feedback and the obvious state of disbelief. Conversing about Enemy Free Environments and Pure Affection without any regret are the subjects that were discussed.
Though unconditional love has never been a new topic it seems to be somewhat a forsaken part of our lives today. What more commonly is referred to the thin barrier between love and hate, the later being a product of an unsuccessful relationship and maybe too obviously abused. But what we will now discuss is not limited to personal relationships but represents a refined look and way of attitude towards life, one that I truly believe can be a solution to many of the rising problems we face today.
Loving everything and every one is not an obsession, neither is it an ideality; fiction to our lives. Rather it is the one that urges you practice and demands perfection for its existence. It lives in its pure form only and it remains the fine result of inner peace and self respect. Hate is a result of weakness and respect isn't true without dignity. Attar Neyshaboori (a Persian poet and writer 1120~1230 AD) quotes in his book "Tazkerat-Ol-Olia" [Remembrance of the Great] from the chapter on Rabeyeh Adveyeh. Rabeyeh Adveyeh was one of followers of the "Sufism" ideology which is famous for many things among them true inner peace. Attar brings for us the dialog between Rabeyeh and her followers in his book, what I had noted above.
Satan is the symbolic being of hatred. And yet.
I am no leader. Neither am I here to define good or weigh it by scale. God was never defined by human or will it be by my words. Demanding was never an option. What has been given can be nourished, remembrance is gratitude. The absence you feel is fueled by the emptiness in you. Fight for love and never beg it. No one asks for pain, never hurt the ones you loved. Redemption will be the vengeance you seek and the remorse will follow. Loving is your strength it holds you power, hatred is the weakness that you take shelter in.
There is no reason for hate, breed fear and mistrust unless you are persistent to require one. What we see and understand - the truth that can't be judged - is the sole responsibility of our own being. If one day you wake up to nothing more than a world filled with hate and unjust be sure you have been working hard and long to manifest it till that day. The wounds you bear from another's actions are there to stay - to remind you that life has choices, what has been done is your guide to prosper and the world shapes in the healing you are to make.
Understanding. We are different. Embrace the unity that lives in you, the human that we share. Live free from your own restrictions, live free from your fears. Accelerate life to its fullest.
Take no excuses, accept no conditions."
Having read this, I pondered it carefully. More than anything else I believe it important that whatever we do in life towards others, whether for good or for ill, is not only a reflection on ourselves, but actually what we are in fact doing to ourselves as well, for we are also having every bit as great of impact on ourselves in the proccess whether we are conscious of it or not. We carry our behaviors, attitudes and actions as the character and image that only we and God know best that we are.
It is important that we not surrender the high ground to those who might otherwise bring us down, whether by intent or simply through their weaknesses, which in fact we all are subject to. Why become something lower than we would chose to be because someone else has chosen it through poor attitudes or behavior? The fact of the matter is we all are different people at different times, and none of us are strong all of the time. Better to be more forgiving of other's shortcomings and weaknesses, lest we become too hard on ourselves as we realize our own hypocrisy if we do not. How often have others forgiven us, and we may not even have realized that we needed it in the first place? Forgiveness is a gift we give ourslves, for there is peace and healing in it. It is no coincidence that the most loving and forgiving people are the most comfortable in their own skin, having the least problems with self esteem.
The opposite of love is not hate. Some say it is apathy. But I think it is fear, for I know of no greater enemy of love, nor anything that will kill it quicker than fear. It is the geatest reason our society has become more and more broken, and people more and more isolated, substituting cyber friends for direct human relationships. Less chance of getting hurt that way. As society has grown more and more complex, and traditional rules have been broken down people may believe we have come a long way towards making things better. But have we? I don't believe any amount of material things will ever take the place of the family that seems to be getting weaker and rarer in each generation of our society, nor can anything take a greater value than character and integrity, as defined in times past, and not compromised, watered down versions. It is man's nature to want to be his own God, and so we keep wanting to change things in ways we think will make us happier. The only problem is man makes a poor substitute for the real God, and when we try to remake God in the image of man, we simply end up amplifying our weaknesses and shortcomings. Yet drawing up sides and seing one another as enemies only plays into the hands of the enemy. No one will listen to another who does not respect or care about them. It is only by showing unconditional love one for another that hearts and minds can be reached. Jesus said "Love your enemy." To many in the world that sounds crazy. It sounds impossible. Yet it is wisdom when seen in proper perspective It is also the only chance of bringing people together in unconditional love.
The Greeks are much better equipped in their language when describing love than we who speak English. For instance, the word "Philos" means brotherly love. When combined withe Greek word for city "Delphos" we get our city name Philadelphia, "the City of Brotherly Love." The Greek word "Fraternos" describes the kind of love shared between friends, and is where we get the term in fraternal organizations. The Greek word for sexual love is "Eros", the root word from which we get "erotic." But the greatest Greek word for love is "Agappe", it means "Unconditional Love". It also Means "God's Love." It is also the kind of love that God would have us all show for one another, yet happens all too rarely.
