Thanksgiving may be a time to express gratitude and love...but getting together with friends and relatives at holiday times is not always easy. There may be hidden issues and agendas and feelings to navigate. Tolstoy has some words about love for October 4th that may be helpful to think about as we move into the holidays.
May you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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Real love refers not just to love for a particular person but to the spiritual state of loving everyone.
To love means to live within the lives of those whom you love.
Do not force others to love you; just love others, and you will be loved.
A holy person lives in the world, but he is concerned most of all about his attitude to people. He can feel all people, and he can sense all people, and all people turn their ears and eyes to him. --Lao Tzu
Without love nothing can bring you goodness, and every action inspired with love, even if it seems small and unimportant, will bring you some fruits afterward. --Form the Book of Divine Thoughts
Religion is the highest form of love. --Theodore Parker
The more a person expresses his love, the more people love him; the easier it is for him to love others. In this way, love is eternal.
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A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Peter Sekirin, Scribner, NY, 1997
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1. a belief in a superhuman controlling power, esp. in a personal God or gods entitled to obedience and worship. 2. expression of this in worship. 3. particular system of faith and worship. 4. life under monastic vows. 5. thing that one is devoted to. (from Latin religio: bond)
Thinking in terms of numbers 1, 2, and 5, I agree with Tolstoy. But many religions have not evolved and are not living religions anymore, and do not embody the highest forms of love (to me, but perhaps they do to someone else).
Thanks for sharing the lovely quotes. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Radiate Love and Love will be drawn to you.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family for tomorrow!
I thank you again and wish you and yours a blessed Thanksgiving. I am thankful for people like you in my life!!
E.~
Have a great holiday, Alison!
wonderful thoughts to ponder. *smiles*
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