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Perfect love vs Unconditional love |
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| By ashleyanne | 2010-04-26 17:43:17 |
| Several decades ago a book turned movie really hit its mark with me. The heroine was probably the first pagan flavoured character ever to receive high acclaim on the silver screen. She delivered a single one liner about unconditional love that I’ll never forget: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” I pondered that line for weeks. It came back again and again to haunt me. I remember the impression it made on my friends and how they put it in to immediate practice. Little by little, their manners slipped. Common courtesy fell by the wayside. Why? Because in their hurry to practice unconditional love, they missed the whole point. Unfortunately, a lot of other people did, too. Unconditional love is not perfect love and has nothing to do with manners or common courtesy. All it means is you love someone no matter what they do; but it doesn’t mean you like them. It doesn’t mean they your feelings haven’t been hurt or that you life hasn’t been impacted adversely by their actions. To love unconditionally doesn’t mean that you can continue to be in harmony with someone or that you can ever learn to trust them again. All it means is that you love them in spite of their behaviour. And that doesn’t breed perfect love and trust. It breeds disharmony, bitterness, and unbridled anger. For that reason, strive to embrace the three concepts that ground the Wiccan structure: perfect love, perfect trust, harm none. It’s a mighty hefty order. To be able to love perfectly, one must be able to trust and be trusted. In order to trust one must not harm or be harmed; and that covers a lot of ground. In short, we must learn to treat others fairly, kindly and politely. We need to get rid of the “shit happens” attitude and take responsibility for our actions when we screw up. We must learn to say, “I was mistaken”, “I behaved poorly”, and “I’m sorry”, with sincerity. We need to exercise a little common courtesy and remember our manners. Yes, we’d risk becoming more refined; more cultured and by some definitions lose some of our freedom. However, we’d also become happier people feel better about ourselves and get back in to harmony with the rhythms of the Earth. And that’s what walking the Wiccan path is truly all about |
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