Today has been a difficult emotional day.

[HarmanKardon]

Originally Posted by merrylander

I hate to sound as if I am delivering a sermon here but this is summat I did learn from life, albeit rather later on. The commandment love thy neighbour as thyself finally registered. You cannot love others if you don't love yourself. I am not speaking of blind love but true love, a love that can see faults but that concentrates on virtues. I am probably my own worst critic but I now recognize that I also do have virtues, that I am worthy of being loved. That also enables me to work on my faults, to erase them or lessen them. In my first marriage we were both too young and in our hearts we, neither of us, really loved ourselves. Some lines from William Congreve can describe such a situation.

“Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned.”

Fortunately I have learned that I can truly love myself and because of that can love others.
Offered in a spirit of friendship.

Precious words of wisdom, thank you. Let me add that we decide on our path of life only to a certain extent, the rest is... I don't know...Anyway happiness and contentment lies in letting go and acceptance, according to my experiences.

[mpholland]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Precious words of wisdom, thank you. Let me add that we decide on our path of life only to a certain extent, the rest is... I don't know...Anyway happiness and contentment lies in letting go and acceptance, according to my experiences.

It has been my experience that every path I choose always leads to another fork in the road eventually. Some sooner, some farther down the path, but inevitably another choice needs to be made.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by mpholland

It has been my experience that every path I choose always leads to another fork in the road eventually. Some sooner, some farther down the path, but inevitably another choice needs to be made.

that is Western Philosophy in one sentence....it was what Hemingway was saying in The Old Man And The Sea....

it is the journey not the destination

[Zeke]

Check out the latest Redford flick for an excellent synopsis. Good stuff.

He says few words but one, an unexpected one, made me burst out in spontaneous laughter. It was my life.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by mpholland

It has been my experience that every path I choose always leads to another fork in the road eventually. Some sooner, some farther down the path, but inevitably another choice needs to be made.

" When you come to a fork in the road....Take it "

http://www.yogiberra.com/yogi-isms.html

[merrylander]

You may not always know where life is going to take you. Back in Feb 1983 when I set out into a blizzard heading for BWI airport (Yeah right, what would be flying in that) and wound up in the lobby of a Holiday Inn. Why did I offer that nervous lady my protection. Why did we write soo many letters. Whatever we were married before the year was out. Was not a fork in the road just the exit ramp.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by merrylander

I hate to sound as if I am delivering a sermon here but this is summat I did learn from life, albeit rather later on. The commandment love thy neighbour as thyself finally registered. You cannot love others if you don't love yourself. I am not speaking of blind love but true love, a love that can see faults but that concentrates on virtues. I am probably my own worst critic but I now recognize that I also do have virtues, that I am worthy of being loved. That also enables me to work on my faults, to erase them or lessen them. In my first marriage we were both too young and in our hearts we, neither of us, really loved ourselves. Some lines from William Congreve can describe such a situation.

“Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned.”

Fortunately I have learned that I can truly love myself and because of that can love others.
Offered in a spirit of friendship.

stellar post sir.

[barbara]

Zeke, I hope things look better for you today.