Unconditional Love

[Captain]

Originally Posted by nammyoho

A friend told me yesterday to think this toward every single person I meet:

"I love you. I forgive you. I'm sorry. Thank you."

I prefer to say Namaste aloud or silently, works better for me. "The divine in me acknowledges and honors the divine in you". Easy, no extra reasoning or logic required.

[TheGlow]

Originally Posted by Timeless

It's really great to know there are people like your friend.

You are actually suppose to be saying that to yourself.
It's an old Hawaian thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoʻoponopono
The belief being that some part of you, attracted that experience so appologizing, forgiving thanking and loving yourself will stop that energy from being attracted to you.

[Deepsoul]

Im in love with unconditional love at this time ,very special stuff, never known it like I do now ,free your heart and never judge, there are unlimited ways to view it all....

Originally Posted by nammyoho

A friend told me yesterday to think this toward every single person I meet:

"I love you. I forgive you. I'm sorry. Thank you."

To me, if you excuse me saying so, that's the fast track to becoming a doormat.

It would seem ok if everyone in the world behaved like that then we could go around apologising to, and forgiving each other.....except there's a bit of a paradox. If a person is forgiving someone, what are they saying sorry for? Themselves? In which case are they in a position to forgive at all?

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[Deepsoul]

i agree with Lorelyn ,in as the most important person you can unconditionally love is yourself ,first and always or you will remain a doormat ,well you are actually

inhibiting everyones growth in the situation ,people will keep showing you or situations how important it is to stand up for yourself ,love yourself first until you get it and

change the game plan then they will be forced to look at there ownselves honestly and start there own journey of self sufficiency and unconditional love. A great by

product of knowing the self this way for me also is that i can see, forgive from afar i dont have to engage i can still have deep unconditional love for the other person but

know what is the best way to be with that ,and in truth loving God unconditionally and trusting in his,hers divine love is the best Love ever...

[Gem]

If the love is for an object then it is conditional on objects, so the unconditional love is prior to objects.

[Miss Hepburn]

Ya know...love unlimited and expansive...comes from a Source.

Now, I don't speak from books, but from 40 years of deep, long meditation... using CS Lewis' articulate words,
paraphrased...
You must get near the center of that Source, he calls a fountain...
and It is, indeed...at the center of Reality.

There is no object for this love, haha...I just laugh....it simply 'Is'.
It does make one giddy...It is Love Itself ...warm, pure...explosive...
all embracing...for no reason.
It just Is.
It must be experienced to be understood.

It humbles me to talk about It. Not much you can say.

Good acts can set your mind right and get you focused...but it is work
to experience It...deep,
inside, within yourself...unless you are Gifted with Divine Revelation...taken...where the Doors of Perception
are flung open for you...full of Grace.

Maintaining It can be easy or hard...depending on your resolution and conviction and steadfastness...
and just plain raw desire.

...and your whole life, then, revolves around IT...forever...you are simply ruined for anything else.

[keokutah]

Originally Posted by Timeless

Having unconditional love in your heart is the only way to reach true happiness. Unconditional love is gained in the process of discovering your true self, and realizing the relationship of you and whole universe. It's not something that you strive after or try to obtain.

Next time someone gives you a dirty look, just remember that you both are part of something greater. All of our struggles and conflicts with each other are just silly.

One Love

I don't think people are capable of true compassion, until they have experienced the pain for themselves. That's why Empaths are compassionate and unconditionally loving, because they can sense and feel what other people feel, they can easily put themselves into someone elses shoes and the majority of empaths have probably suffered and have been judged a great deal themselves so they know what it's like.

I believe that you can only have true compassion and unconditional love for someone once you have been to the darkest of places, because only then will you ever understand that even the darkest of people have the best potential for light, that the people who suffer the most, the most evil people in this world, are the ones who hold the most light and love in their hearts.
To be unconditional loving, you can't have any fear or judgement at all, just pure love and kindness.

Unconditional love simply means loving someone without seeing their flaws, without seeing any judgements. You can only do that once you've been truly flawed yourself, once you have suffered and known what it is like to be a minority and to find out that it is possible for the darkest of souls to become the brightest light you have ever seen.

Honestly, I don't have to do some glittery meditation or discover my true self or recognize that we are all One, in order to be unconditionally loving towards somebody. All it takes for me, is to put myself in someone elses shoes and to see them as a person who has an amazing soul and purpose here - not seeing them as a label like everyone else does. I've been through so much darkness that no amount of darkness could ever bother me anymore, so I love it all.

[keokutah]

Originally Posted by Lorelyen

If a person is forgiving someone, what are they saying sorry for? Themselves? In which case are they in a position to forgive at all?

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Because when I forgive someone I want them to forgive me also - there is always 2 sides to a disagreement afterall.

Whenever someone insults you it's because they feel threatened by you for some reason.

Probably because in this day of age, no matter what you say or don't say, you will always hurt someones feelings without meaning to

People everywhere are so insecure these days that you can easily hurt them without realizing it.

[keokutah]

Originally Posted by Captain

I prefer to say Namaste aloud or silently, works better for me. "The divine in me acknowledges and honors the divine in you". Easy, no extra reasoning or logic required.

No offence, I personally don't like using that word and don't like when other people use it on me, unless it is said by an indian in the correct context. I thought it meant "bowing to you". And I also thought it was Hindu.

Either way it truly doesn't make sense to me when people steal words and rituals from other cultures without knowing what they truly mean and/or giving it new meaning.

I don't think we need to use words that are popular in new age communities or yoga classes just to sound more spiritual.
I wish people could just be themselves and stop talking like how they think spiritual people should sound like.