Does unconditional love really exist?

Some are strong enough to exhibit love to those who have hurt or even murdered them. Jesus was such a person. But you miss the point of such love, it is the love that frees the one who gives. It does nothing for the one that takes.

Only to those that miss the point of it.

Yes it exists. Usually it’s more likely for deeply spiritual people than romantic situations. Loving someone in a compassionate sense is different than being in love with them. Being unconditionally loving doesn’t mean you like all the choices the person makes, or that you will let the person take advantage of you, it just means you understand that on a fundamental level they have the same inherent worth that you do as a human.

Absolutely.

I like your post and agree with it,

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Yeah, I don’t even know what to say to that.

I guess it depends on whether you see others as fundamentally different, or fundamentally the same. And whether you see bad actions as a sign that someone needs to be punished, or a sign that they are already deeply hurt, that is why they are acting badly, and what they need is to be helped. Or that they have some great flaw in their understanding, and what they need is to be taught.

You are on the right path if you don’t know and that is OK. The next step is too find out. There are others that will help you.

How do you know this? Do you know who these “others” are? How do they know who panaccione is or that he needs their help? Do they glow or something so that he can spot them among the false “others” that might not be part of your “One True Way”?

You are making a lot of assumptions not in evidence of my post.

The only assumption here is yours in thinking saying vague supposedly comforting things is going to go over in this forum. How can you possibly know that some mysterious “other” is going to come along and steer him in the “right”(read “your”) direction, and why should anyone assume that you know what you are talking about, especially considering what you’ve told us in the past about how you acquire your otherworldly information?

Came here late and skimmed over the comments.
Unconditionally is the only way I know how to love.

Great, then you are a helper.

What about insight? intuition?

What in the name of Gholgosht the Unwashed are “unconditional insight” and/or “unconditional intuition”??

You made me laugh, now I want to know that also.

Obviously, no Aha! moment for you.:smiley:

Obviously, you are throwing random words into the mix as a stall tactic.
Please answer the question I asked.

Those questions were rhetorical in nature. (from wiki: In simple terms, it is a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer.) The effect I attempted to elicit was one of cooperation and a point of departure in finding an agreed upon unconditional experience.

The unconditional love experience is real and not theoretical.
It happens to people when they least expect it.
They remember it forever.