The love thread...for sharing and insights

Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from [humankind] the conflicts which this ethic will involve [us], but allow [us] really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation – this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

Albert Schweitzer


Any thoughts………….

Re: The love thread...for sharing and insights

More questions than thoughts..
To allow beautiful wolves to live wild and free, we must accept that they will kill lambs or cuddly Bunnies. I don't hold that we as a species have risen much above the animals, yet I am much disturbed that so much of our lives are dominated by human “wolves” who may have had a role in our early survival, but now serve only to promote their own selfish ends. How do we safeguard Human Wolf characteristics without them spoiling the world for everyone else? Or do we just have to trust in evolution or a higher principle to resolve the imbalances in society.
I guess my question is can we really ever hope to “think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation” ? it seems a frighteningly difficult challenge. I usually approach these issues from the heart not the head, relying on gut instinct so as to avoid imagining “every implication”.
Bring on the philosophers

Re: The love thread...for sharing and insights

Hi Chaparral
Think it's all about maintaining some kind of precarious balance, and letting go of many of the things we have learned previously - no over-thinking, just flowing….  The flowing loosens up anything that needs loosening and dissolving…It's about accepting the lamb and the wolf and loving them both equally and acknowledging that they exist within us all…


anyone else…..

Re: The love thread...for sharing and insights

Chaparral:  

it seems a frighteningly difficult challenge.




There are only two choices in everything we do… love and fear… every thought, every feeling, every emotion is rooted in love, or in fear.  

The choices we make as a human race create the environment of fear, or love, for all flora and fauna.  If we as humans created a world of love, utopian love with out fear… perhaps the wolf would settle down, sit at our feet, and eat the scraps of our meals, just as a loyal pup.

If we can imagine a world that is love, we can create that world.  If the challenge is frightening, then you are letting fear dictate your reality, and it is then fear that you are manifesting for all.

I love how clearly you stated that you live from your gut and emotions.  In the chakra system, energies of the emotions are higher energies than those of the mind… wisdom comes from knowing and seeing through emotion, not just mind.

I know it sounds trite… but just choose love, and walk away from fear… and you will see the world around you begin to change.

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I love love songs, fine digital art and romantic films which reflect so much of who we really are.

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beloveds,
I am moving out of my father's house, where we have helped each other heal for the last 2 years. I had considered this possibility for months and my decision to move now started in anger and frustration with his anger at me and his inability to see how loving I have become.
Now my leaving is in loving myself and loving him for being there these last two years and how I can love him from now until we part.
love you dad

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for got a pic again. I moving to the neighborhood where my father first lived and this falls was part of his playground. He use to hang out with his brothers in the cave/overhang space behind the falls.

Re: The love thread...for sharing and insights

loving and letting go
just going with the flow
remembering and forgetting
never letting
the fear take hold…

picture perfect iljung

Forever blessings
Tai