Fear Or Love (you Decide)

[LightWorker]

So love or fear?

 

[6thGen]

I've not limited myself to those two choices.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I'd love to live in peace, but I realize that in the real world, different from LightWorker world, it's not at all possible.

There is a big difference between living in peace and living in complete peace. Every day, there is a battle in someone's life, we all experience it in one way or the other. For some, the battles are external and for others, the battles are internal. Living in peace can mean different things to different people. Peace is state of mind.

 

[Smiling JOe]

So love or fear?

A brave man dies one death, but a coward dies a hundred. --or something like that. I cannot remember who said it, but the idea now comes to mind. Why live in fear? I think we all need a little fear here and there. Fear can be a great motivator, and it can also be a great thorn in the foot. For that matter, so can love. The two are really not that different in many respects. Sure, they can be on different ends of the line, but they are emotions, and they both shape us into the people we become.

 

[LightWorker]

Better to light one small candle
than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
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[Smiling JOe]

Better to light one small candle
than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
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Are you suggesting that love is the light and fear is the darkness? I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

Love often leaves us with pain and suffering, and fear sometimes lights the wick of the candle.

 

[florida girl]

Perfect love casts out all fear.

 

[savvytangerine]

Are you suggesting that love is the light and fear is the darkness? I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

Love often leaves us with pain and suffering, and fear sometimes lights the wick of the candle.

Not that it is my business but SJ - be burned by being in love and spreading love, friendship and joy are two different things. IMHO Lovinng someone - usually unconditionally and not having things go as planned well... To me that is seperate from spreading love with our words and deeds. Planting seeds of love instead of fear is a gift that we should all freely give.

I've not limited myself to those two choices.

You can't just answer a simple question can you hunny?

I'd love to live in peace, but I realize that in the real world, different from LightWorker world, it's not at all possible.

Then I feel really REALLY sorry for you. You have to believe that you can make change before you are capable of it!

 

[Smiling JOe]

Not that it is my business but SJ - be burned by being in love and spreading love, friendship and joy are two different things.

I never said anything about anyone being burned by love, nor did I mean that.

 

[Bob]

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
-- Harry S. Truman

When the pow[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]er of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
-- Jimi Hendrix[/FONT]

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one."
-- John Lennon[/FONT]

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
-- Mother Teresa

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
-- Hyman G. Rickover

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Great quotes.... King's quote says it all. My older brother was interviewed by Rickover before service on nuclear subs. Rickover would try to freak you out to see if you could handle being underwater for weeks on end in a giant metal tube. His methods worked, as he was a genius. I am no fan of Truman, but he served in the worst of times. Mohandas Ghandi-- "An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind"..... I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."...."It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business"...." The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"...."Be the change that you want to see in the world".