Hi there, I believe in a god and i believe that a man called jesus came to earth, i believe what he said about how we should love everyone. I think love is the universal truth, its what we should all strive for as love brings peace, freedom and understanding, and it all sounds fantastic in my head but when it comes to practicing it i find its not so easy. I truely believe people are inherently good, that this world is good, but can anyone share their tips and wisdom on how to love everyone even if we are stressed and they are being somewhat difficult or hard to love? How do you get past that and love the person that is inside when they are making it really tough or it's someone you have only just met or have never even met at all? Any advice would be treasured thank you, Peace
Remember that just like you, they have dreams, hopes, loved ones, emotions, problems, and everything else that comes along with being human. This is the common ground we can always find with other people. (I am not old, wise or a hippie, but I think this is fairly adequate advice.)
All you gotta do is be love. Or at the very least don't practice the opposite. It won't be instant, but as long as you practice in every interaction, it'll eventually become habit
When you let go of Self , you begin to develope a sense of deep empathy for all the souls around you , then it becomes second nature to think of others before yourself, Love is a whole lot easier than Hate. an it takes a brave person to love someone rather than to be self involved.
it's impossible to love everyone, if you didn't discriminate atleast part of the tme. you'd end up hanging out with people that would get you into trouble, or who would put you into a position to end up with bodily harm or death.
Cant you love someone but not do what they do, like getting in dangerous situations? Cant you just love them for the person they are without discriminating but still use common sense when choosing what actions to do? Thanks for all your advice everyone, its neat to have people here supporting each other and our varying ideas!
I think the more you explore your own mind and understand the reason why you feel and do the things you do and why you fear the things you fear, it becomes alot easier to see these same things in other people too and to understand why they do the things they do.
I've seen this kind of wordplay from Christians who discriminate against gays and other groups. It doesn't sit well with me. I thinks it's just wordplay.
you can love every one but choose when and how you want to hang out with them if you do at all. its your choice but try to give everyone a decent chance at friendship you never know what you may find.
yea, i know its what a lot of christians say, iv heard it said many times too. what i mean is, you can love someone but if they say "hey lets go rob that supermarket" you can still say no thanks but love that person anyway. I think you can love a person despite them sometimes doing things that you dont always agree with. It IS hard to seperate the person from their acts, especially as we judge a person based on thier acts, but i still think its possible. And i have recently realised that you can get annoyed at people and frustrated by some of thier actions but that doesnt mean you arent loving them. I used to think that if you got a little agro at a person then it suddenly means you arent loving them anymore, but temporary frustration doesnt hide the fact you love them, and usually when i get frustrated at people its because they are doing things that are harming them, i get frustrated that they are doing things that I know arent good for them, not so much me, and i gues thats a sign of love, that you care enough for a person to get frustrated.
while i don't profess to love everybody i hate no one ..don't have the time or energy to waste on hating ..it's easy to love people once you have learned the magic words...LOVE YOURSELF FIRST.......how can you love your neighbor when you loathe yourself....think about it
Loving everybody is easy , you just look for the best in the person , and focus on it. Plus , if you remember how good it feels when someone loves you , you just want to pass that feeling on to someone else !
I am not a christian but I still love everyone. I think sometime in life I just realized we are all human. We all have emotions, pain, hopes, dreams, fears and the ability to love. If you look past people as being good or bad and you just realize that we simply all are then it's a lot easier. Love is simple, people complicate it.
I can honestly say I don't love everyone and I don't apologize for it. Those I do love, I love with my whole soul, but I've got people out there that just want to ruin my life for me and I will honestly say, I don't love them. I hate them, and that's okay. (Hey, they sent the cops to my house, only the cops can't convince them I haven't done a crime and you don't arrest somebody just because they don't like them).
People are not inherently good. We are evolving animals with animal natures. Do not pretend you have to love everybody. There is plenty not to love. Just treat others the way you would want them to treat you and know you will reap what you sow.
