Love tends to be underestimated sometimes. This thread is aimed at the ones who underestimate the power of love in your life.
There are two things you can love. You can love yourself, and you can love everything else.
Love goes deeper than you doubters of this profound emotion might expect. There are a lot of things that ARE love. Like peace for example. When you
love everything you come into contact with, you accept everything. Things that used to bother you will no longer bother you, because you love it.
Situations present themselves to you, and you could be so in love with your life experience that when you used to look at those things with judgement
and harsh criticism, now they don't even phase you. Now you are at peace where there was once a conflict.
Love is joy. When you love everything, everything makes you happy. You'll be happy all the time.
Gratitude is love. When you are grateful for everything you have and you can proclaim to yourself that you are grateful for it, that means you love
it.
Love is beauty. When you love what you see, then what you see, you make beautiful in you eyes.
Love ends all stress. Love ends all worry. Love ends all guilt.
Trust is love. A lot of times, things happen to you that can make you easily lose trust in someone. This happens a lot. You begin to not trust
anyone, and consequently, you set up barriers in yourself so that you don't get hurt by those actions again. Trust is the dissolution of those
barriers that allow love to flow through you easily.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is
not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians Ch.13 versus 4-7
Love is more than just an emotion. It is an outlook on life. It is very powerful. Love solves problems. Love is powerful enough to end wars. Love
is what the world needs to bring in a new age. Until you allow love in your life, these obvious facts may not even make sense to you at all. I've
been on both sides of the fence, at times I had known love deeply, and then I forgot what it was. When I forgot what it was, none of this stuff made
any sense. It took actively pursuing a love for all things to make me realize that without love, I don't have anything and I am truly
nothing.
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For those who want love, but don't know how to get it:
I used to be blindly searching for happiness and contentment in material things such as video games and computer activities, and I never could find
it. I didn't trust people because I'd been hurt in the past, so I didn't see anything to love in them. I knew I wanted love though, and through a
strong enough act of will, I began my journey to enlightenment. I started small. I started just loving nature. I learned that love wasn't only an
act between two people, love can be had at all times for everything. You can love walking down the street, or love being in the sun. You can love
knowledge. You can love anything. When I realized I could love anything, it quickly became easy to love everything. This brought about much joy in
my life. I was happy for no reason at all except for just being happy. When you immerse yourself fully in love and look inside yourself and identify
the barriers to it, then you can help yourself remove those barriers and thus further increase your capacity for love. A greater capacity for love
brings about a greater capacity for joy. You think you want material things, but you know right now subconsciously that those things are trying to
fill a void that only joy can fill. This is why you must learn to love yourself and everything and everyone else.
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1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift
of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I
give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians Ch. 13 versus 1-3
Maybe you might not believe in the Bible, but don't let that discourage you from the absolute truth in the two excerpts in my thread.
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