How to love everyone

[joethejoeguy]

I've noticed that a lot of people here aspire to "love everyone" or "make the world a better place." The What is your purpose? thread is overflowing with these ideas. But what do these things mean? how do we love everyone, and how can we judge what is better or worse for the world?

im not just trying to be dificult, these are questions that have been bugging me for a while as i try to become a better person.

i guess the main question is, "what is good, and what is bad?"

[Jonathan Mead]

I think aspiring to love everyone is one of the greatest aspirations you can have. It's not easy though, but I think it starts with not taking things personally. What others do has nothing to do with you, because even if they do something to hurt you, it's because of their own beliefs, opinions. It wasn't about you, it was about them.

The other biggest thing we have to realize is self forgiveness and the forgiveness of others. When we do something wrong, we need to forgive ourselves and move on, instead of holding it over our heads. We have to stop playing the judge and the victim. If we can learn to do this, we can find a lot of freedom in our lives.

[jimo]

What loving everyone means to me is to live without judging others. When we stop judging and start to accept others and the world as it is, then we can learn to love each other.

[Old Soul]

I've noticed that a lot of people here aspire to "love everyone" or "make the world a better place."

Yes, I like what Bob Dylan says "Before the sky there are no fences facing".... why not aspire to live and be at peace with all people as best as you can........whenever you can ...........

besides enemies weigh to much on your shoulders, but friends are lighter and much easier to burden........


"A Rule"

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can.

-John Wesley ( Poems for a good and happy life)

[evelynlim]

I believe in making gradual steps. You can just "love everybody" all of a sudden. Start with your close ones, family and friends. Cultivate the feeling of gratitude and appreciation. As you get connected to this feeling, you will find that it starts to spread with a feeling of kindness and compassion for all and that is equivalent to love.

Evelyn

[veranadine]

Loving everyone is an aspiration. It is the guidance that we find within ourself while continually trying ti implement this form of thinking that allows us to continually readjust our ideas about whats is good and what is bad.

There is a fabulous book that helped me with the concept of loving everyone. It is Compassion in Action by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush.

The first step (cliche as it may sound) is to master self-love, or at least tenderness towards oneself. The second step is to realize that good or bad do not actually enter into the true application of loving all. This is because you must, like Gandhi or Mother Theresa, love others regardless of their actions or choices in life.

In other words, you must come to the selfless place where you are able to feel as connected to, and as tender towards, George W. Bush as you feel towards Deepak Chopra or Wayne Dyer.

See now why I say it is an aspiration as a opposed to some absolute that one simply reaches and remains at?

The constant questioning of ones own motives and inner values is the process of Universal Love.

The entire point is to keep trying and to keep changing in attunement with universal love. Perfection of application, or perfection of any kind, is not possible on our physical plane.

Brightest Love & Blessings,

[openeyes]

Originally Posted by joethejoeguy

how do we love everyone

eat lots of dark chocolate regularly

[Christian223]

The Bible says that God loved so much the world that he gave his only son so that we can be saved and be reconciliated with him, and that we where his enemies, sinning against a holy God, and so, he tells us to do as he did, Jesus says to us that we must love even our enemies, we have a great example to follow and imitate, imitate his compasion and mercy, because we are made in his image, renew your mind, replace all the things on your mind that get you away from the love of God.

John 3: 16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

"what is good, and what is bad?"

We have the great moral standard of God in the bible, read it and youll find out.

[edwardmccaughan]

I'm still working on this one myself and acceptance seems the first step, but heres some stuff that has helped,

-first understand people.
realise that just like you, people are afriad, lonely, hopeful, happy sad. Try looking at random people and working out what they're feeling and try and feel it too.

-practice positivity
whenever someone says something you disagree with, don't argue with them or try and change their minds, just stop yourself and accept that that is how they think. (this doesn't mean you have to agree with them, or that you shouldn't argue with people, but accept them as they are before you do)

-see people as important and be 100% present with them
when someone is telling you about something you don't really care about, remember that its important to them. Stop your mind wandering and really *listen* to them

oh, and I agree with the learning to love yourself first, that seems to have made a big difference

(all of that may or may not help or even be what you're talking about, but its a start...)