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Is that your experience? Is that your understanding of Jesus' two great commandments of love?
Originally posted by arpgme
Transcending the bodily emotions and relation to life and death... I would say nothing is felt - only a calmness.
It wouldn't be love.
Well, as you are partially pointing out, nature is hardly peaceful. Hundreds of thousands of people have been wiped out with natural events.
Originally posted by arpgme
A flower or tree is existing in peace. Nature is peaceful, and looking at nature there is a balance.
But animals still eat each other, there is no protection in the wild (only by one's own members but not nature itself). So I would say nature is "peaceful" but without an emotional label I would just call it "balance".
Originally posted by WhiteHat
I must , I must say something too
I think desire is the strongest emotion, and the root of every other emotion. When we desire another person we call it love, when we desire money and possessions we call it greed, when we desire to be satisfied by any means we call it selfishness, when we desire peace of mind we call it spirituality, when we desire security and stability, we fear of the opposite, and so on.
We always desire something, for as long as we breathe. Did you ever notice how we want something so strongly, but when we achieve it we already want something else?
Can you recall when was the last time when you really didn't want nothing at all?
Isn't our mind eternally busy of wanting and searching for ways to get what it wants?
Yep, I think desire is what keep us moving, always trying to catch the horizon. All other emotions come and go, but some form of desire is perpetually running in our minds.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by vethumanbeing
It is fear of future loss. The idea of death makes one believe that one will lose everything.
The 'everything' is seen as important by the individual. 'Things' are important to the individual.
It is only when one realizes that the 'things' depend on something that will never be lost that the fear of future loss will drop away.edit on 6-5-2013 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)