All you need is love, dum da da da dum…… Thank you Di and Textmage…… All you need is love, dum da da da dum…. All you need is love,,,,, love,,,,, love is all you need.
When I started to sing, 'ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE! and yes, my singing is a cross between shouting and a martial air, I suddenly thought, You don't need love, RicH; you're not needy at all anymore.
I actually stopped and looked around the room like it wasn't me thinking that shit.
I am on a similar wavelength this morning. Been on a Conversations with God kick lately. ;) Hellllllloooo! Is that you God? ….. and of course it Is. ;)
After a while of practice, I am finding love and God become things not to strive toward, but that which dwells permamently within. This is what I am working on this year. Thanks for the quote TM. It's nice to have these reminders from friends as tools to practice with every day. Lots of different perspectives, arriving at the same peace.
Between the two of you, I just experienced a very pleasant train of thought that will see me through this day, bouncing around in my head (no longer a train, it got trapped and became a bouncy ball!) and probably, by the end of the day, I will have juggled it around until I found a way to adopt it as my own and then learn from it.
Does that make sense? I think I'm possibly talking nonsense and trying to sound like the intelligent bean that you, Richard, expressed you see me to be. I can't help it, now, can I? Thank you for that, by the way. Thank you very much. Your response to my blog gave me a lot to think about and I felt… reassured.
My theory (I didn't post about it) also involves love. It's that we are here on Earth to learn to Love like God. I stumbled upon this theory one day at a lunch with my youth minister and some other girls, and we were talking about heaven and asking one another why, if God Loves us so much and wants us to be with Him, He had put us on Earth in the first place. And I thought, it is not a punishment or even the way it had to be or the way it was meant to me, but it is because He Loves us that much. He Loves us so much that He wants us to experience Love as He does. I speculated at the time that this was the key to Heaven, if you will. (It was youth group, we talked of things like that.) That if we learned God's Love, then we would go to heaven.
(Because I have always felt that those confessions in the various church gatherings, conferences, concerts, and all other manner of get-togethers and worships, in which we are urged to “accept Christ as our Savior” are rather fake. I can say up and down that I'm sorry and that I believe in Jesus and believe He was sent here to die for my sins. Doesn't mean I feel anything ultimate in relation to that belief. I just… expect to feel something BIGGER. So I've never liked that, I went through a period when I was, in fact, annoyed and frustrated whenever a minister, pastor, or whomever, would invite us to the alter or the stage or the front of the room to give our lives to Jesus… or whatever.)
I expressed this (“this” only refering to my theory and not to my thoughts about accepting Jesus as my savior, because I've never felt comfortable admitting that to anyone at church, really. Which is sad, but it's what we live with,) to my peers and they all agreed that it was an interesting idea. I felt proud, I will admit, but I think it was a Godly Pride.
I'm sorry, I got long-winded. I didn't intend to.
Anyway, I just wanted to express my thanks to the two of you, Richard and Di, for giving me something interesting to think about today. Probably you've taught me something important, and I just haven't realized it yet.
But you know… I wish I felt that Love conquered All. It's a wonderful theory. It's the sort of thing I enjoy believing of the world. But it's not something that I've experienced, particularly. Maybe I don't Love right. And I felt mildly sad and disappointed when I read, Richard, what you had to say about not being needy anymore. Because I realize that I am needy. I am very needy. I crave love and adoration. I'm not sure where that leaves me, and it's upsetting to me.
Well, I need to be preparing myself for my day. I'm wishing happiness and joy for you today, and hoping that I can continue to talk with you and perhaps that we will be friends.
Until next time, then, with Love, Alexandra Brianna
P.S. Richard, I'm curious. How did you know, in the initial comment that you left me, to call me Brianna? It struck a chord of pleasant surprise in me. My family and closest friends call me Brianna. My childhood past is Brianna. How did you know that is my “true” name?
WOW!! Brianna, you just feel free to get longwinded anytime you want, Grrrrl.
Reading your post was like reading the writing of some very great sage and one who don't think herself all that, as well: That's the very best kind of sage, in my book, except for the seasoning that goes in the stew, of course.
Holey-moley, Bri!!
You gave me sooo much to think about that I don't know where to start. I want to begin my telling you that I was a Pentacostal youth minister, myself.
I love God, and OUR Lord Jesus Christ with ALL MY heart and ALL MY soul.
I want to very weakly add, that I do my genuine best to love Others, as I love my-Self, admitting that I don't always love either of US too perfectly. I want you to know ALL that because what I believe now, after almost fifty years of study, is not what THEY taught me in Bible school, but I still believe it to be pleasing to God.
Having said all that, I also need to add that I don't believe Jesus Christ is my personal Saviour anymore. I don't believe that God has any sort of plan for me and I don't believe that God only gives me what is good. I don't think these beliefs changed because my views have matured, or any such nonsense. I just don't think that's what Old JC had in mind when He counciled US to love one another and to look within for God's love.
I think a lot of Biblical beliefs were put there so that venal, small-minded men could control one another and have more reasons to hate and make war.
I believe that Jesus was a very great sage, kinda like you, Brianna. I don't believe that Jesus took time to council Others to hate, or to obey.
Jesus wanted US to search OUR own hearts for good and to love more like God, more like His Father: “The Kiingdom of Heaven is in YOU.” I think Jesus was talking about his earthly Father, whom WE call Joseph, and His heavenly Father, who many of US call God, both at the same time because at some point Jesus realized that both of His Fathers were one. I think Joseph really loved Jesus like all loving Fathers love their Sons. I believe that Jesus had good early childhood training and love; it is easier to love OUR sons than it is to fix broken men.
I believe that Jesus realized what ALL great sages, since day one, realized: What it is, is what it is. It don't matter too much what WE call it. H.L. Mencken said, ”We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.“ I think Mencken was a very great sage as well, although Mencken, like Jesus, and like you Brianna, would have denied any special knowledge.
The reason for the strong Universal denial of sage-hood by ALL these great men, and probably by you, Brianna, is that they were all smart enough to realize that whatever the answer is, WE cannot reach it by trying to figger it out and the Answer will be different for every living thing – even inanimate Ones.
WE can think about love. WE can talk about love. WE, almost ALL of US, know what love is, but it is only by giving love, freely and unconditionally that WE can experience love. And I believe that giving love is the Eternal Message of ALL great Sages. ALL the Golden Rules say the same thing.
Jesus was thinking exactly the same thing that you and your friends thought in Bible class. What ya'll were thinking in Bible class was God giving you. your little piece of the great Puzzle of Love. WE ALL got a piece and more and more of US are coming together to put ALL the pieces togeher. “Hey, I got a piece too!”
Soon there will be a time when people in the back of the crowd are clamoring to come forward and put in their piece so they can see the puzzle come together.
Contrary to what I tell MY fifteen year-old, one does not have to be chronologically very old to know, experience, or to give love, one only has to be an Old Soul, as WE ALL are. WE ALL got a piece of the puzzle.
The problem is not those clamoring to be heard; the problem is ALL of US not including those on the fringe who are too timid, or too humble, or too downtrodden to bring their own piece forward. WE have to include those people, whether WE want to, or not. WE need THEM: Not vice versa.
Otherwise WE cain't get the puzzle put together. Jesus knew this truth. He told US: “Love the least among these.” Love Others as WE love OUR-Selves. The problem with loving Others is that WE don't always love OUR-Selves ALL that much and then, “How WE gonna be all that and love Others too?”
Actually, I think Jesus was also saying pretty much the same thing that you were saying in your youth group, Brianna: WE are here to learn to love like God loves US, gently, unconditionally and compassionately – and I do not use the G-word lightly. Loving OUR-Selves and Others may not be the best Way, but I have searched high and low, and I have not found a better Way.
Of course, you love the right Way, Brianna!! It's just that loving OUR-Selves and Others ain't easy and sometimes, it don't even make sense. From what I have seen of you here, Brianna, you love rightly and well.
WE ALL doubt OUR-Selves and how much, or how well WE love because WE are not perfect. That you doubt your-Self and that you do so openly here, only shows that you are indeed thoughtful, humble and truly loving. You rock, Grrrl!!
I don't believe that Christ was perfect either, but please, don't tell your minister, for god's sake. You tell your Pastor that I said Old JC wasn't perfect and I'll have to use my Jedi powers to keep from being crucified myself. Depending on how weak-minded your minister really is, I might have to use my light-saber.
I called you Brianna because I love you and because I ALWAYS listen to the little voices in my head: Right, or wrong, they are showing me MY Way. I only have the One Planet and OUR One Family, YOU are part of MY Family.
Finally, I am needy too, Brianna, more often than I care to admit. I was saying that right at that moment I wasn't needy. Need comes and goes. Have you ever had a perfect, satisfying moment, Brianna? You can choose to have more.
Love to you ALL, RicHIe
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Have to think about this…. had this thought that perhaps this saying would be better as Love conquers all thoughts.
Then I thought…. nope, Love just conquers all….
Ummm…. Love is All, no conquering required. ;)
Then I started humming “All you need is Love” dum da da da dum….
Okay, off to the shower and the day, done playing here. ;)
Have the BEST of days today my friend. :)
All you need is love, dum da da da dum…… Thank you Di and Textmage…… All you need is love, dum da da da dum…. All you need is love,,,,, love,,,,, love is all you need.
from your lips to God's ears :)
Thankx for the earworm, Di.
When I started to sing, 'ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE! and yes, my singing is a cross between shouting and a martial air, I suddenly thought, You don't need love, RicH; you're not needy at all anymore.
I actually stopped and looked around the room like it wasn't me thinking that shit.
WOW!
I am on a similar wavelength this morning. Been on a Conversations with God kick lately. ;) Hellllllloooo! Is that you God? ….. and of course it Is. ;)
After a while of practice, I am finding love and God become things not to strive toward, but that which dwells permamently within. This is what I am working on this year. Thanks for the quote TM. It's nice to have these reminders from friends as tools to practice with every day. Lots of different perspectives, arriving at the same peace.
It does in my book as well, TextMage!
and may “V” and Love be with you always..Rita
I like it. I'll take it lol
Love to all! Sherri
A good thought to end my day! Not a theory to me. Blessings, Richard!
Dear Richard (Richie?) and Di,
Between the two of you, I just experienced a very pleasant train of thought that will see me through this day, bouncing around in my head (no longer a train, it got trapped and became a bouncy ball!) and probably, by the end of the day, I will have juggled it around until I found a way to adopt it as my own and then learn from it.
Does that make sense? I think I'm possibly talking nonsense and trying to sound like the intelligent bean that you, Richard, expressed you see me to be. I can't help it, now, can I? Thank you for that, by the way. Thank you very much. Your response to my blog gave me a lot to think about and I felt… reassured.
My theory (I didn't post about it) also involves love. It's that we are here on Earth to learn to Love like God. I stumbled upon this theory one day at a lunch with my youth minister and some other girls, and we were talking about heaven and asking one another why, if God Loves us so much and wants us to be with Him, He had put us on Earth in the first place. And I thought, it is not a punishment or even the way it had to be or the way it was meant to me, but it is because He Loves us that much. He Loves us so much that He wants us to experience Love as He does. I speculated at the time that this was the key to Heaven, if you will. (It was youth group, we talked of things like that.) That if we learned God's Love, then we would go to heaven.
(Because I have always felt that those confessions in the various church gatherings, conferences, concerts, and all other manner of get-togethers and worships, in which we are urged to “accept Christ as our Savior” are rather fake. I can say up and down that I'm sorry and that I believe in Jesus and believe He was sent here to die for my sins. Doesn't mean I feel anything ultimate in relation to that belief. I just… expect to feel something BIGGER. So I've never liked that, I went through a period when I was, in fact, annoyed and frustrated whenever a minister, pastor, or whomever, would invite us to the alter or the stage or the front of the room to give our lives to Jesus… or whatever.)
I expressed this (“this” only refering to my theory and not to my thoughts about accepting Jesus as my savior, because I've never felt comfortable admitting that to anyone at church, really. Which is sad, but it's what we live with,) to my peers and they all agreed that it was an interesting idea. I felt proud, I will admit, but I think it was a Godly Pride.
I'm sorry, I got long-winded. I didn't intend to.
Anyway, I just wanted to express my thanks to the two of you, Richard and Di, for giving me something interesting to think about today. Probably you've taught me something important, and I just haven't realized it yet.
But you know… I wish I felt that Love conquered All. It's a wonderful theory. It's the sort of thing I enjoy believing of the world. But it's not something that I've experienced, particularly. Maybe I don't Love right.
And I felt mildly sad and disappointed when I read, Richard, what you had to say about not being needy anymore. Because I realize that I am needy. I am very needy. I crave love and adoration.
I'm not sure where that leaves me, and it's upsetting to me.
Well, I need to be preparing myself for my day.
I'm wishing happiness and joy for you today, and hoping that I can continue to talk with you and perhaps that we will be friends.
Until next time, then,
with Love,
Alexandra Brianna
P.S. Richard, I'm curious. How did you know, in the initial comment that you left me, to call me Brianna? It struck a chord of pleasant surprise in me. My family and closest friends call me Brianna. My childhood past is Brianna. How did you know that is my “true” name?
WOW!! Brianna, you just feel free to get longwinded anytime you want, Grrrrl.
Reading your post was like reading the writing of some very great sage and one who don't think herself all that, as well: That's the very best kind of sage, in my book, except for the seasoning that goes in the stew, of course.
Holey-moley, Bri!!
You gave me sooo much to think about that I don't know where to start. I want to begin my telling you that I was a Pentacostal youth minister, myself.
I love God, and OUR Lord Jesus Christ with ALL MY heart and ALL MY soul.
I want to very weakly add, that I do my genuine best to love Others, as I love my-Self, admitting that I don't always love either of US too perfectly. I want you to know ALL that because what I believe now, after almost fifty years of study, is not what THEY taught me in Bible school, but I still believe it to be pleasing to God.
Having said all that, I also need to add that I don't believe Jesus Christ is my personal Saviour anymore. I don't believe that God has any sort of plan for me and I don't believe that God only gives me what is good. I don't think these beliefs changed because my views have matured, or any such nonsense. I just don't think that's what Old JC had in mind when He counciled US to love one another and to look within for God's love.
I think a lot of Biblical beliefs were put there so that venal, small-minded men could control one another and have more reasons to hate and make war.
I believe that Jesus was a very great sage, kinda like you, Brianna. I don't believe that Jesus took time to council Others to hate, or to obey.
Jesus wanted US to search OUR own hearts for good and to love more like God, more like His Father: “The Kiingdom of Heaven is in YOU.” I think Jesus was talking about his earthly Father, whom WE call Joseph, and His heavenly Father, who many of US call God, both at the same time because at some point Jesus realized that both of His Fathers were one. I think Joseph really loved Jesus like all loving Fathers love their Sons. I believe that Jesus had good early childhood training and love; it is easier to love OUR sons than it is to fix broken men.
I believe that Jesus realized what ALL great sages, since day one, realized: What it is, is what it is. It don't matter too much what WE call it. H.L. Mencken said, ”We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.“ I think Mencken was a very great sage as well, although Mencken, like Jesus, and like you Brianna, would have denied any special knowledge.
The reason for the strong Universal denial of sage-hood by ALL these great men, and probably by you, Brianna, is that they were all smart enough to realize that whatever the answer is, WE cannot reach it by trying to figger it out and the Answer will be different for every living thing – even inanimate Ones.
WE can think about love. WE can talk about love. WE, almost ALL of US, know what love is, but it is only by giving love, freely and unconditionally that WE can experience love. And I believe that giving love is the Eternal Message of ALL great Sages. ALL the Golden Rules say the same thing.
Jesus was thinking exactly the same thing that you and your friends thought in Bible class. What ya'll were thinking in Bible class was God giving you. your little piece of the great Puzzle of Love. WE ALL got a piece and more and more of US are coming together to put ALL the pieces togeher. “Hey, I got a piece too!”
Soon there will be a time when people in the back of the crowd are clamoring to come forward and put in their piece so they can see the puzzle come together.
Contrary to what I tell MY fifteen year-old, one does not have to be chronologically very old to know, experience, or to give love, one only has to be an Old Soul, as WE ALL are. WE ALL got a piece of the puzzle.
The problem is not those clamoring to be heard; the problem is ALL of US not including those on the fringe who are too timid, or too humble, or too downtrodden to bring their own piece forward. WE have to include those people, whether WE want to, or not. WE need THEM: Not vice versa.
Otherwise WE cain't get the puzzle put together. Jesus knew this truth. He told US: “Love the least among these.” Love Others as WE love OUR-Selves. The problem with loving Others is that WE don't always love OUR-Selves ALL that much and then, “How WE gonna be all that and love Others too?”
Actually, I think Jesus was also saying pretty much the same thing that you were saying in your youth group, Brianna: WE are here to learn to love like God loves US, gently, unconditionally and compassionately – and I do not use the G-word lightly. Loving OUR-Selves and Others may not be the best Way, but I have searched high and low, and I have not found a better Way.
Of course, you love the right Way, Brianna!! It's just that loving OUR-Selves and Others ain't easy and sometimes, it don't even make sense. From what I have seen of you here, Brianna, you love rightly and well.
WE ALL doubt OUR-Selves and how much, or how well WE love because WE are not perfect. That you doubt your-Self and that you do so openly here, only shows that you are indeed thoughtful, humble and truly loving. You rock, Grrrl!!
I don't believe that Christ was perfect either, but please, don't tell your minister, for god's sake. You tell your Pastor that I said Old JC wasn't perfect and I'll have to use my Jedi powers to keep from being crucified myself. Depending on how weak-minded your minister really is, I might have to use my light-saber.
I called you Brianna because I love you and because I ALWAYS listen to the little voices in my head: Right, or wrong, they are showing me MY Way. I only have the One Planet and OUR One Family, YOU are part of MY Family.
Finally, I am needy too, Brianna, more often than I care to admit. I was saying that right at that moment I wasn't needy. Need comes and goes. Have you ever had a perfect, satisfying moment, Brianna? You can choose to have more.
Love to you ALL, RicHIe