Unconditional Love

This blog entry is in honor of my first follower - Ratin Chhibber. Thank you Ratin for your comment and for your own thought provoking blog (Reflections of My Shadow)....

"How is it to love unconditionally? ....is it like enjoying the others imperfections because perfections we all enjoy". (Ratin Chhibber) Exactly. And to take it just a little further....unconditional love starts with oneself.

The following is an excerpt from the website http://www.vitalaffirmations.com/unconditional-love.htm: I found this site by chance and it has helped open my mind to how we create our own worlds.

"Unconditional love is loving without limitations, conditions or reservations. It is based on an attitude of complete acceptance which means you decide to love other people - and yourself too, of course - by being happy with them just as they are, without needing to change them in any way, allowing them to grow, to be all that they want to be for themselves, even if this does not include you or fit with your plans."

It says, "if you can truly love and accept yourself, then your life experience has no limits."

My interpretation of this last statement is what I think most of us have the hardest time with. People have a normal tendency to hold their guilt with them and can't forgive themselves or others....for mistakes, betrayals, accidents, wrong choices, etc. I sincerely believe this is the primary cause of all the pain, emotional or physical, that starts occuring in one's life. And, like a single dollar that can grow into many dollars in a bank, such can a single negative thought or feeling festering in a mind/body, grow and grow, also.

I am reading a book called the "Power of Positive Thinking" written by Norman Vincent Peale and will be sharing in a short version (the book is 511 pages) the concepts I'm learning in posts to follow...