Love life and cherish fate.
Love life.
“Love one another even as your father
in heaven loves you”. This may be too much to ask. We hurt
each other and have a fear of being hurt. Through self protection
we choose who to trust. Through greed we select fun people who
agree with us. It is a beginning.
You can choose where, when and
with whom you wish to feel. In this way you let your taste, your
likes and dislikes, dictate love. That is you only feel a shared
feeling when conditions are met. You love a specific alternative
conditionally.
How are love and like
(conditional love) different? A dog lover loves his dog no matter
how he behaves. The dog is accepted as he is. On the other
hand in making friends we choose them based on their behavior. We
choose friends that we like. Love has little to do with it.
The lesson of Jesus was that we
should love one another the way we love our dog. We should even
love our enemies the way we love our dog.
Going one step farther, we should
love all dogs the way we love our dog. So it should be with
people, dogs, our self, life and everything. This requires
accepting without choosing.
Intimacy with a concept or object
(god, a dog, life) is easier than intimacy with a person.
Trusting that which is understood to the extent that there are no
surprises makes trusting a concept easier than trusting a person.
Hence it is easier to love god, a dog, or life than another
person. The hurt a person might deliver to you cannot be fully
anticipated because people are real (therefore inconsistent) and
concepts are ideal (therefore consistent).
“Love one another even as your
father in heaven loves you”. This feeling, the feeling that you
are part and belong there, is the feeling of belonging. And you are
more than just human. You are part of everything. When you
touch you feel touched. As feeling is the reward for living you
feel life. This is what it means to love life.
Cherish fate (or a specific alternative such as God).
“Without fear it is enough to
wonder”. Fate is in your taste. The events of life find you
thankful. Without fear you expect more of the same. You like fate.
Not only do you like fate you believe you are part of fate. You feel
this belonging, the feeling of love. There is no fear of fate (Tao,
God, et. al.) ending. You believe with doubt and without
fear. This is what it means to cherish fate.
There should be love and peace between us.
In judging the importance of the
truth; accept people with grace,
give their beliefs the benefit of doubt, feel yourself human, and both
like and love fates unfolding. That is accept people, tolerate ideas,
love life, and cherish fate. To limit this to within your own
chosen
group is less than filled. It is not that the prophets were wrong
but
rather there is more right.