What you are expressing is unconditional love. You help without expecting anything in return. It is the highest form of love. As Jesus said: “There is no greater love than to lay down your life for a friend.” In those mass shootings that happened some shielded others. Everyone is capable of feeling it.
If you read a list of America’s greatest men nine out of ten will be positive thinkers.
Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, even Obama. You don’t get anywhere thinking negatively. You go forward on trust and faith or you don’t go at all.
Yeah, I get “ticked” all the time.
I mean ticket or path.
when I was young I lived in a disfunctional family.
I was depressed, had anxiety attacks and migraine headaches that were debilitating.
I left home as quickly as possible at 18. Life was not easy, but I joined the Naval Reserve and begin to grow up. I now have no problems and doing things I thought
impossible when I was young. I gave up the self-pity and took on the self-confidence. I am a very happy person now. Anyone can do it, but not with pills or drugs. You have to decide to do positive things and start doing them.
Remember that post in another thread where I described the “Tommy Syndrome”?
Not really.
Basically, you may have found a cure that works for you, but doesn’t necessarily mean that it works equally well for everybody else. One method may work for you, while another method that wouldn’t for you might work for someone else.
I did some reading on the Internet about it. I don’t think it applies to me. I have helped many people find their way through the path of love. I can understand why you would think that, but the path is not easy and it takes commitment to get better. I know most people don’t want to walk the path of love because they believe in the macho approach to life. The more the macho push the more others push back. It is a path to failure. Well I know it works if you work it. It is the process of giving up bad habits of negativity. It also takes time. But it works.
Nobody ever thinks the Tommy Syndrome applies to them.
There are all kinds of things like the Tommy Syndrome that keeps people thinking in negative ways. There is a vast difference in being humble and being weak. Humility does not equal weakness or pusillanimity. Usually it is just the opposite. If one develops an attitude of unconditional love there will be humility but not weakness.
If I were a weak person I would have gave up here a long time ago.
You don’t know what the “Tommy Syndrome” is, do you? It has absolutely nothing to do with negativism, humbleness, or weakness.
And it has nothing to do unconditional love either.
The next step is to examine how to attain unconditional love, but that is another thread.
I suppose the the good news is:
If we can not have “unconditional love” then we can not have unconditional hate(not love).
Unconditional love is love without foundation, reason or history. It is based on nothing but whim, and has no strength.
Hate is not the opposite of Love, fear is closer but love has no opposite.
It is fear that creates all negative things including hate.
Love is the most powerful thing there is, it is the basis of creation.
It 's an emotion. Where was love before there was sentient life?
A lot more than an emotion whatever that is.
You might say love created the universe or God is love or
love is God. If you understood love.
Look it up-it’s in the dictionary.
When you say something is an emotion you are only saying that it moves.
Does not say what it is.