love unconditionally.

To love unconditionally…I find it helpful to imagine adults as children, because we all have that child within. So when someone, anyone, is giving me a hard time, I attempt to imagine them as a child-version of themselves, and feelings of fear and anger at the situation usually dissipate.

seems impossibble for me to do this, because i dont trust people, i just cant !!

but i SWARE i wanna….
i just need time, and someone pacient who wanna try with me :)
all on its time :)

Was at lunch, sitting next to some guy who I thought was really arrogant/annoying based on how he was talking to someone. I caught myself, remembering the following:

1. Characteristics we hate in others are actually shadows of ourselves.
2. Taking the Bhuddist/Hindu/(Insert eastern religion here) view, I realized that I AM him, and that hating this individual is actually hating myself.

I felt much better after realizing these things =).

Even when I get mad at something, I want to have the power to always see the good in it even if for that split second I don’t agree with it or what its doing.

I am deeply in love with someone, but yet my old self is keeping me tied up to all my bad habits and is stopping me from loving ANYTHING unconditionally, but i will use this intense love I have with this amazing person and i will use it to conquer my fears and failures and then I will live my life for this person. That is how i want to love unconditionally.

if it takes my a lifetime, i will never give this up.

Love that is based on expectations is not love at all. A lot of people do stuff for me but I expect them to do something and become upset. I should learn how to accept people and existing relationships as they are and not expect too much. I want to become less selfish, though I have achieved that over the last one year.

Loving unconditionally is the best freeing kind of love…because you do not rely on others to love, you love first and last…this love is love that is not dependent on others~ it is within our selves…and it is quite wonderful…this is the love that we all desire, that we all search for, and is within each of us, if we allow it and embrace it.
Embrace it~ it is the first step in truly loving.

deep down inside i can be pretty shallow. it’s sad, it’s something i struggle w/ everyday. i see my cousins and how they do this all the time, my sisters also. and yet for some reason i can’t

Some days I still struggle to understand how God can love someone like me- how my friends can love me even in the hard times… but I am growing to see that unconditional love isn’t for the perfect- it cannot be unconditional if there isn’t something that could challenge it.

and the “worth doing” tab on this goal is pretty funny. “75 out of 78 people (96%) think this is worth doing.”
apparently, there’s 3 people don’t think this is worth it. this means they apparently did not do it right. there’s no way you can love unconditionally and have it fail you miserably, so yeah.

and the more i think about it, the more this goal should be made more specific. because loving one person unconditionally and loving the entire world unconditionally is very, VERY different indeed.