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		<title>By: Lucy Lopez</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lucy Lopez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Exactly Tim - there is no loving oneself independent of loving all!  Oh should I say: There is no loving oneself, period!  Unless by &#039;oneself&#039; we mean &#039;all&#039;.  

Then again there is no &#039;all&#039; &#039;to love&#039; when All is Love - our essential nature!  

And yes, how do we remind ourselves?  How do we stay in awareness of this fundamental truth?  

For me it is through formal and informal meditation (where I experience this truth)and  through reading, writing and reminding others.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Exactly Tim &#8211; there is no loving oneself independent of loving all!  Oh should I say: There is no loving oneself, period!  Unless by &#8216;oneself&#8217; we mean &#8216;all&#8217;.  </p>
<p>Then again there is no &#8216;all&#8217; &#8216;to love&#8217; when All is Love &#8211; our essential nature!  </p>
<p>And yes, how do we remind ourselves?  How do we stay in awareness of this fundamental truth?  </p>
<p>For me it is through formal and informal meditation (where I experience this truth)and  through reading, writing and reminding others.</p>
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		<title>By: ellumbra</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am inspired by it because it is a magnificent truth - meaning that the philosopher&#039;s stone for life is - love.
 
I feel sometimes that forgetfullness is responsible for any attitude of blame - forgetting that I am also - always in a relationship to the object of blame.
Take for example a traffic collision - no matter how much I like to think the other is solely to blame - if I weren&#039;t there, at that particular time, in that precise space - there could have been no collision - how could I possibly exclude myself from the equation, other than not seeing things as they really are?

On another tack - we were talking at home about &quot;love thy neighbour as thyself.&quot;
I realised an unfamiliar reversal of that golden rule - most people are probably kinder to others than they sometimes are on themselves - so the instruction also encourages us to love ourselves - to be happy - to be realistic about things we have no power over.
Loving oneself may sound arrogant at first, but first we must accept firmly that the concept is literally impossible - there being no seperate &quot;subject/object&quot; within ourselves - and having accepted that all of life is one, we cannot exlude &quot;ourselves&quot; from that equation - so it merely implies allowing, permitting ourselves to enjoy our life, love and liberty - whatever it is we choose to do with it.
And that can help us to remember.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am inspired by it because it is a magnificent truth &#8211; meaning that the philosopher&#8217;s stone for life is &#8211; love.</p>
<p>I feel sometimes that forgetfullness is responsible for any attitude of blame &#8211; forgetting that I am also &#8211; always in a relationship to the object of blame.<br />
Take for example a traffic collision &#8211; no matter how much I like to think the other is solely to blame &#8211; if I weren&#8217;t there, at that particular time, in that precise space &#8211; there could have been no collision &#8211; how could I possibly exclude myself from the equation, other than not seeing things as they really are?</p>
<p>On another tack &#8211; we were talking at home about &#8220;love thy neighbour as thyself.&#8221;<br />
I realised an unfamiliar reversal of that golden rule &#8211; most people are probably kinder to others than they sometimes are on themselves &#8211; so the instruction also encourages us to love ourselves &#8211; to be happy &#8211; to be realistic about things we have no power over.<br />
Loving oneself may sound arrogant at first, but first we must accept firmly that the concept is literally impossible &#8211; there being no seperate &#8220;subject/object&#8221; within ourselves &#8211; and having accepted that all of life is one, we cannot exlude &#8220;ourselves&#8221; from that equation &#8211; so it merely implies allowing, permitting ourselves to enjoy our life, love and liberty &#8211; whatever it is we choose to do with it.<br />
And that can help us to remember.</p>
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		<title>By: Alcohol Posts &#187; Interconnectedness - It is I!</title>
		<link>http://www.lucylopez.net/planethappiness/207/interconnectedness-it-is-i/comment-page-1/#comment-689</link>
		<dc:creator>Alcohol Posts &#187; Interconnectedness - It is I!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Lucy Lopez wrote a fantastic post today on &#8220;Interconnectedness &#8211; It is I!&#8221;Here&#8217;s ONLY a quick extractThe beloved, the candle, the liquor and the inebriation, it is I. The seventy-two religious sects in the world Do not really exist; I swear by God every religious sect-it is I. Earth, air, water and fire: do you know what they are? &#8230; [...]</p>
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