two commandments

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

 

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

- Matthew 22:36-40

The second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. The second is like it.

lord (n):
1. a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler
2. a person who exercises authority from property rights; an owner of land, houses, etc
3. a person who is a leader or has a great influence in a chosen profession

We have free will. We have authority, control, and power over ourselves as well as our homes. We lead ourselves, through our consciousness. Whoever is your Lord is your God. That's you.

Be your own God. Love yourself. And if you can't yet, become a God you can love. That means being yourself--because you won't love yourself, if you're being something you're not--and possibly making a few changes. But really, wouldn't they be changes you've always intended, deep down, to make someday? There's no hope for you if you lack a conscience, but if you have a conscience, trust it, as well as your consciousness--and you can do and be the god that you're meant to be, perhaps not now, not overnight, but someday.

A teacher once told me in class, "You do not have a soul. You are a soul." I disagree. I am not a soul; I have a soul. I am a human, but that is only a shell. What makes me alive, immortal, and divine is the essence of life within me, the force that drives me, the eternal destiny that I am always moving toward. Every living creature has that, but because I am human, I am conscious of it--although not fully, not yet. That is god. That is my higher conscious, my greater purpose, my true nature, and it trascends the trappings of this life and every lifetime I shall endure. And that is where love comes from.

Questions

If you were God, would you live differently?

If you realized that someone you knew was God, would you treat them diffrently?

Why?

Why not try living in a way that would not need to be altered if you were God--and treating people in a way that would not need to change if they were?

And if you were God, would you love yourself as you do not now? If someone you loved was God, would you love them more?

Why?

What kind of god would you be? Would you pick someone specific to embody--a Greek god, an Indian goddess, the Great Mother, the All Father, Jesus Christ?

Or would you be your own god, like all of the rest have been? Would it be enough to be yourself? Would you need to change?

What if finding god is just finding yourself?

What kind of god are you? Are you the type of god that you or anyone else would want to worship?

What kind of god do you want to be? What kind of (wo)man do you want to be?

Different?

In the polythiestic pantheons, each god is an individual--with his or her own strengths and weaknesses, flaws and virtues. They were not perfect, but they were still gods. They did not try to be anything other than themselves, for better or for worse. Most pantheons had a chief god, but one thing they seem to agree upon was that the lesser gods had free will. Each stood for something; each one's personality represented an aspect of life, and yet it was not all that they were. Their lives were as complex as ours, and aside from immortality and their magical abilities, they were quite human. There was nothing divine about them at all, really, nothing you couldn't find in humans--except their immortality.

Do our souls live on after death? Are our souls mortal or immortal? When we die, do we return to a great sea of consciousness, losing memory and self, and becoming one with it, melding with the energies of others? Do we remain there, or are we reincarnated? If we're reincarnated, are we wiped clean at a soul level--do our souls cease to exist as they were and become part of a sort of homogenous pool, from which new souls are created? Or do our souls stay in tact throughout all of our lifetimes? Do we go to Heaven or to Hell? As long as you believe we do something more than cease to exist, our souls are immortal.

And while we may not have the literal magic abilities of the gods, we can wield the power of magic and of prayer in our lives. We can change--ourselves, others, the world. We can create anything--new life, art, cities, technology. We can destroy--life and nature, things that are good, things that are evil. We can wield the forces of "good" and "evil," with the very same hands. The gods could do things that we know are impossible, but then things are possible for us now that once were impossible.

What, then, makes us different from the gods of the polytheistic pantheons?

And if man is both human and divine, both good and evil, what makes us different from the God of the Abrahamic peoples, who has his own duality?

Who are your Gods?

God gives us free will and demands that we respect his. He loves us unconditionally and commands the same of us towards him. He forgives us anything and expects the same from us.

If we can do this for God, we can do this for the people in our lives--maybe not everyone, because we're not perfect, and neither is anyone else. But we can still apply these basic principles.

Respect people's free will, even if we don't agree with their choices. Love people, even if you don't like or even hate what they do. Forgive people, even if they don't deserve it. And ask the same of others.

Are there people in your life who you will always respect and love, no matter what, people you would forgive for anything? Are there those who would do that for you? Who are the Gods in your life?

"God is a Spirit." - Jesus, John 4:24

What can I learn from an imperfect God?

Let's look at this imperfect God of the Abrahamic peoples from a different perspective.

This God sacrifices his son for the sake of the world, and since his son is Him, it's really self-sacrifice. I'm not sure why he needed to do that. He's God, so he was capable of opening the gates of Heaven on his own. But okay.

The Bible is full of words about his jealousy, wrath, and vengeance. He tells man not to be like him in these ways, then condones stoning and gives forth a list of people that should be killed. But then his Son comes along, and we are freed from these old ways so that "Thou shalt not kill" becomes the supreme law. Good call, God. Laws should change with the times, and compassion is admirable.

He drowns the world in a flood, but he saves some righteous people. He later sees what he has done and vows not to do it again. So this is a god that can regret and learn from his mistakes and learn better judgement through experience.

If you apologize, he'll forgive you, as long as you're sincere.

If you come to him, and seek him, he will accept you and give you unconditional love, even if you err, provided you are trying, because he does not expect perfection. He tells us to love. Jesus said that the greatest commandment was to love God, with the second greatest being to love your neighbor.

If you call upon him, he will listen to your prayers, giving you strength, courage, protection, whatever he can, within reason. He can be a good friend.

If you're a good person and you do good in the world, he will bless you--even if you have to wait til you're old and gray for that happy ending you deserve, like in The Color Purple, or until you're dead and go to Heaven. He rewards people for doing good.

God preached a fair bit of intolerance, but then his son Jesus began encouraging tolerance--and yea, God saw that this was good. It's good to change for the better. Sometimes the best thing to do is change your mind.

If you do wrong, he punishes you. There has to be some justice, some repurcussions for a man's actions, after all.

He recognizes the innocence and sacredness of children.

He is a Creator.

He takes full responsibility for his actions and offers no excuses, but does try to explain them. One of my favorite stories of gods taking responsibility is the story of Aries and Aphrodite, who are caught in the act of adultry by Hephaestus; undaunted by their shame, they name their daughter Harmony, who becomes the apple of her father's eye.

He can show mercy.

He acts as our judge in the end, judging us by the summation of our lives rather than this or that, and encourages us not to judge others, as we don't know them as He does. Both God and Jesus were anti-hypocrisy.

He wants us to realize that we are naturally sinners and accept that we are not perfect.

God wants us to have faith. Jesus once praised a Pagan's faith, incidentally. She was Roman.

He encourages people to give to the poor, to be faithful to their spouses, to work hard but observe a day of rest, to tell the truth. Don't kill, don't steal, don't waste.

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. - Ephesians 5:1

The Delusion of a Perfect God

Let's talk about being Godlike. But God is perfect and infallible; he makes no mistakes. He is all-loving and all-forgiving. He is omniscent--sees all, knows all. He can do wrong. No one is that wholly good; no one can be so pure. It's impossible. Right?

That's bullshit.

Find me this perfect, infallible, all-loving, all-forgiving, know-it-all God. He doesn't exist--even in the Bible.

If God is perfect and infallible and makes no mistakes, explain man--man who murders and rapes, lies and cheats and steals, man who turns upon brother and wages war, man who has corrupted the environment and poached species' into extinction. If he is all-loving and all-forgiving, explain the Great Flood; explain the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah. If he knows all, why didn't he know in advance that he would regret the Great Flood and vow never to do that again--and thus not have done it in the first place? If he can do no wrong, wouldn't he have nothing to regret?

God said "Bring me fifty good men," and they could not--so everyone died, including the innocent children. Yeah, they were innocent children, so they were spared from a lifetime of sin and taken into Heaven to be with God eternally. That makes it all okay. (So does that make abortion okay? Would it be okay for me to kill a few kids? I mean, after all, they'd go to Heaven. It's cool, right?) I wonder if God has just never heard of Detroit or Juarez. But maybe they're next on the list now that New Orleans has been decimated.

And Lot is spared, along with his daughters. LOT, who offered up his virgin daughters to appease the angry mob that had gathered at his door, demanding that he give up his two visitors, angels in disguise, intending as it is insinuated to rape them. "No, spare them--take my daughters instead!" When told not to look back, Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. Seems a heavy price to pay for looking back, but that's your reward for disobeying God. So God saves Lot, who is willing to sacrifice his daughters to a raping mob, and Lot's disobedient wife, and he lets all those other people, including the babies, die. Then, Lot's stupid, stupid daughters, believing they are the only people left in the world, get Lot drunk on wine and have sex with him to conceive children. You know what we call that today? Rape. But God makes no mistakes?

God tells Abraham to kill his son. Then he's like, "Oh, just testing you." That wasn't wrong? So, would it be okay for me to test my kid's father that way? "Go and kill our son, to prove you love me." Really? But it's okay for God to do it. Because God's God. Different strokes for different folks, you know.

I know, I know. Blasphemy. Burn me at the stake. Stone me. Leviticus commands it. I'm serious. 24:16

God also wants us to kill rape victims who don't scream loud enough:
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city. Deuteronomy 22:23-24

And women who aren't virgins on their wedding night, and people who worship other gods, and disobedient grownup children, and alcoholics--even men who gather sticks on the Sabbath. It's all in Deuteronomy--quite a read. But per John 8, Jesus himself was opposed to all this stoning.

The point is, if this is the God we accept, then man is quite capable of being Godlike. We can be loving and forgiving; we can be blood-thirsty and wrathful. We can do harm to others; we can commit horrible acts, justifying them to ourselves with whatever reasons we'd like. After all, we were made in His image.

And the gods of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Indian pantheons weren't perfect either. There are hundreds of stories where they commit adultry, rape, murder, lie, steal--just do as they please, and man has to deal with it and still worship them and feel like shit if he himself does any of these things. Ever has it been that what a god does is okay, but if man does it, he should be ashamed and be punished.

So yeah, I'm still waiting for you to find me this God that isn't at all like mankind. Don't say Jesus. He let Lazarus die so he could bring him back from the dead. That's in John. This is quite an interesting read, even if it is long-winded. The guy is obviously biased, but he makes a few good points. I've always had a pretty high opinion of Jesus, but as I read through the Bible lately, he does sound an awful lot like the cult leaders of today--an exaggerated ego, speaking in riddles so that none (or only the enlightened) can follow his logic, switching from a gentle manner to an agitated one (yeah, Jesus does say some pretty rude things in the Bible, calling people swine and fools and whatnot).

I gotta wonder if maybe all of Jesus' miracles were just parlor tricks, and people back then, not understanding science and being more gullible than today, just weren't intelligent enough to see through it--and so immortalized it all in writing. You know, lead poisoning used to make people seem dead--and then they'd wake up in caskets. They used to put bells on the tombstones and have someone watch over each night for a bell-ringing. That's where the term graveyard shift came from. There are ways to "die" and then wake up, without divine intervention.

Now I'm not saying that's how it is, that Jesus was nothing more than a cunning cult leader. I'm just asking, what if?

If God were a man, not God, how would we judge him?

I know, more blasphemy. You'd better get to throwing those stones. We wouldn't want to disregard Leviticus. Or is the bit about homosexuality being a sin the only bit of Leviticus that is still relevant?

If you want to follow this guy, by all means, do it. He has good reasons that we don't always understand for the things that he does. (Just like murderers on Death Row.)

A New World Order..

I would like to see mankind unite, not in one religion, but in one consciousness. I'd like to see the world recognize that most of the religions, deep down, are preaching the same things, asking the same things of people, teaching the same lessons. We don't need a one world religion, because all religions are One--when you stop interpreting everything so literally, when you open your mind to the similarities between them, when you remember that people of every faith are *people* just like you, when you stop drawing lines and crying blasphemy... I would like to see us stand together in acknowledgement of these things--and stop fighting over what should unite us. We don't need to have the same religion to be united in our faiths.

Give yourself some credit

God didn't save you, bring you out of the clutches of addiction, drag you out of depression...

You did. The power to do that was within you all along. You just finally chose to call on it and called it God.

And it is--just not the way you think.

consciousness

There is a term in the New Age community: Godself, which means simply our higher self--the essence of our consciousness, the highest level of consciousness.

What if what we call God is not really a person at all, but just consciousness--that which seperates man from animal--the sum of consciousness that we all share?

Animals are as divine as we are, but lacking the conscious we possess, they do not have the ability that we do to find and contact the Godself within, to shape their lives to match their dreams, to choose to be the person that they wish. But then, perhaps lacking the conscious that we have, they are continually in contact with their Godselves...and thus have no need to do any of those things.

respect

If every person in this planet realized, "I am God" and then looked around in the realization that so, too, is everyone else, would people treat each other differently? If we were to see every person not as merely human but also as divine, would we give each other more respect? Why do we need something to be divine to give it ultimate respect and unconditional love?

revamping the Bible

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

sort of gives new meaning to phrases like:

Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. - Psalm 1:1

because it goes from meaning "don't surround yourself with people who aren't Christian and don't worship God" to meaning "don't surround yourself with people who do not see and strive for the divinity within them."

I would rather stand by a person who is truly Godlike, or tries to be, than a person who bows to a God in the sky, without knowing or trying to emulate said God in his life and actions.

Creator?

Here's a joke.

A caveman is building a fire when God shows up. "Who are you," God asks, "and how did you get here without a creator?"

The caveman says, "Funny. I was about to ask you the same thing."

Within you

Hindu legend states that before our time, people were all Gods but misused their Divinity so that Brahma decided to hide it in a place not to be found: the deepest part of man, the only place he would never look. Since then man has scoured the Earth searching for what can only be found deep within.

http://www.life-cycles-destiny.com/n1/anold.htm

Taqwa

Taqwa: an Islamic concept interpreted, depending on who you ask, as meaning self-awareness, God consciousness, faith in God, fear of God, righteousness, the divine spark within man, being conscious of God in all affairs, and self-restraint. The literal translation is to protect, as in to protect onself from sin or from the Wrath of Allah.

Hinduism

Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world, after Christianity and Islam, and the "oldest living religion."

"According to Hinduism God is One, but also Many... Hinduism believes that man is divine in nature. The basic purpose of a human being is to realize this divine nature in him."
http://www.hinduwebsite.com/beliefs.asp

"Hinduism grants absolute and complete freedom of belief and worship Hinduism conceives the whole world as a single family that deifies the one truth, and therefore it accepts all forms of beliefs and dismisses labels of distinct religions which would imply a division of identity. Hence, Hinduism is devoid of the concepts of apostasy, heresy and blasphemy."
"The goal of life, according to the Advaita school, is to realize that one's ātman is identical to Brahman, the supreme soul"
- Wikipedia

All Pervasive Divinity
"He is the God of forms infinite in whose glory all things are--smaller than the smallest atom, and yet the Creator of all, ever living in the mystery of His creation. In the vision of this God of love there is everlasting peace. He is the Lord of all who, hidden in the heart of things, watches over the world of time."
- Krishna Yajur Veda, Shvetashvatara Upanishad 4.14-15

Dharma, restraint by moral rules, per Hinduism is what seperates man from animal--basically, the knowledge of good and evil, which was attained by Adam and Eve by eating the forbidden fruit. But animals, too, are divine, despite not having dharma, because of all pervasive divinity. I think it's because of dharma that man doubts his own divinity, because he cannot always exercise restraint.

Parenthood

So God is the father, and we're his children, right?

Children grow up to become men -- and fathers, and so do their children.

So it makes sense that the children of God would grow up to become God.

god-man

Merriam-Webster

god-man (noun)
1. one who is both God and man : christ 1 <when man prays, the sacred image of the God-man is with him — H.O.Taylor>
2. one who is both a god and a man or who has the qualities of both : demigod, superman

Duality and plurality

"And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." (Gen 2:16-17)

But they didn't. Or did they? Before that, men were like animals--with no concept of good and evil. What was simply was, and it was neither good nor evil, as in nature. Man was innocent, like a child. But eating it opened them to the idea of morality, changing their conscience, so that they realized that there was both good and evil in them, opening them to shame and their own plurality. Their former selves, pure and innocent, gave way their to dual selves, made of good and evil.

God makes references to his own plurality in Genesis:
"Let us go down, and there confound their language." - 11:7
"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." - 1:26

Sure, he could have been speaking to the angels, but that would mean the angels were like God. If he wasn't speaking to himself, he was speaking to others like him, who helped with creation, but the Bible makes it clear God alone was responsible for creation. Therefore god was speaking of himself and to himself. Maybe he was schizo? But more likely he was recognizing his own plurality.

“Man is God in the making.”
Manly P. Hall

Quakers

"There is that of God in every man."
- a Quaker teaching, used often by George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), derived from Romans 1:19

"Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it unto them."
- King James Bible

Mormonism

"...you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God the same as all Gods have done before you"
- Joseph Smith, LDS founder (April 6, 1844)

"The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself"
- Brigham Young, 2nd prophet and Mormon president

"As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become."
- Lorenzo Snow, 5th LDS President

Subtlety

There is not a God.

There is God.

Do you see the difference?

the humanity of the Christian God

The Christian god is supposed to be perfect, and yet, he too, is as like man as the gods the Christians dismiss as myths. He was jealous by his own admission; the vastness of his vengeance can be seen in the Bible, through the stories of the flood, of Loki, of Hell, and the revelation; he could be angry, spiteful, even wrathful; he could be a trickster, convincing a man to kill his son just to see if he would do it, then changing his mind. Some people say God never changes his mind, but after the flood, he showed regret and vowed never to destroy mankind again... and yet then goes on to promise the Revelation, in which the "evil" people will be purged from the Earth.

(But so long as man goes on breeding, there will always be evil, so does God plan to sterilize everyone post-apocalypse? Or will all new children be so full of light that they do not succumb to temptation? Will there be no chance for them to sin, because they will be surrounded by good influences? And yet we see that even at the dawn of time, before evil spread about the planet to influence, man committed sin--by eating from the tree and obeying the snake, when Cain killed his brother Abel... And what's with this world with no dark, only light? The world kind of needs the dark to rest, just as it needs winter--and evil for there to be good.)

The point is, even the Christian god has qualities that are divine and human. Just as mankind has the same duality.

division vs unity

God shouldn't be a divider, seperating the good from the evil for reward or punishment, dividing people by religion and faith. God should be a unifier, teaching people to blend good and evil, uniting people in faith, regardless of religion.

quotes...

“It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.”
― James E. Faust

“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.”
― Criss Jami

“One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr

love and the soul

If love comes from the soul, then any creature that can love has a soul.

And if love doesn't come from the soul... if it's nothing more than chemicular, what good is it?

Souls

When an animal kills another animal in nature, we do not call that murder.
When a human kills another, we call that murder.

Animals do not know right from wrong; they have only instinct.

Humans have the benefit of a conscience and the knowledge that there are spiritual ramifications.

Is that because humans have souls--but animals don't? Have animals not yet developed souls, or have they evolved past having a soul? Or are our souls just more evolved?

God is divine and therefore everything that comes from it is divine: every atom, molecule, rock, tree, and creature.

angels and devils

Perhaps the devils are the humanity within us and the angels are the divinity within us?

Or are devils also divine and angels also human?

What if humanity and divinity is the same?

divinity in humans

Perhaps more than any other religious tradition, Hinduism recognizes divinity in human beings. Many spiritual teachers are considered to be souls who have ascended to be one with the supreme being; others think of holy men and women as the descent of the divine being to earth.
~ Vasudha Narayanan

Priorities

It is not important how or where you find God, but that you find God.

It does not matter how you see God, but that you feel God.

It's not about what you make of God, but what God makes of you.

God

The Intangible God

God: the unseen, divine force that reigns supreme over this world, governing nature and all that is, dwelling in every living creature and propelling each man towards the true purpose of his birth to make him the person that he was meant to be: one who loves himself, others, and the world unconditionally and uses that force and that love to create positive change first within self and then within the world; the breath of life, the escense of being alive, the fifth element which is called "Spirit" or "Soul," and the source of all magic; the All, both yin and yang, a pool from which springs every possible human emotion, experience, and desire, which every man will encounter on his path to God and even after; Love, unconditional love, which persists endlessly, and will not be overcome, despite human fallacy and the negative emotions that swim around it.

God as a Being

a god: a man--any man, every man

goddess: a woman--any woman, every woman

demi-god(dess)--an individual aspect of god(dess), that is to say of the human psyche

God(dess): the (wo)man who is fully awakened and self-realized, in touch with the force and love of God both within and without, who has learned to balance the forces of yin and yang within, and wields this inner force in the world.

Godself: your true nature, the person you are meant to be

God: the masculine half of the Twin Flame, to whom Goddess answers as God

Goddess: the feminine half of the Twin Flame, to whom God answers

God as Diety

Aphrodite: the goddess of love within a woman

Eros: the god of love within a man

Athena: the goddess of war within all women

Aries: the god of war within all men

And so on, and so forth. When you are calling upon Artemis, you are calling upon that aspect of the Goddess within yourself and the world. It is not an invisible, omniscient being from which your strength comes from. Belief in that just helps you tap into the strength that is already available to you in yourself, in others, and in nature.

Perhaps this makes me seem like an Athiest, but an Athiest is one who does not believe in God. I believe. The power of God and to be God is within all of us.

"Be still--and know you are God."
- Angelina Heart

In you

Do not look above to the cosmos for god, or beneath to the underworld for devils.

Look within.

Mythology

Before there was only one, perfect God, there were many Gods, who were both perfect and flawed, who lived out a grand soap opera not unlike that of humanity. They were divine, yet they were also very human.

Like man, they exercised free will. They gave in to temptation and acted upon impulse. They were ruled by their love, their hate, their anger, their lust. They lied, committed acts of vengeance, cheated on their mates, womanized, killed, meddled in the affairs of man. But also they could love, defend, tell the truth, be merciful and kind, make amends, and accept the consequences of their action.

Each God represents different aspects and faces of man and life. While man may identify more strongly with one God than another, each God represents a peice of the humanity--and divinity--that dwells within mankind. In each of us is a Zeus, an Aphrodite, an Aries, an Isis, an Eros. And when we take the myths as metaphors, we can see the parallels in our lives.

Perhaps the ancient myths are not simple stories created by unenlightened people to entertain, but to guide man in his actions through stories about the actions of the god, so that man could learn through those stories how each action has a consequence, about psychology and human nature, and the nature of the world and the myriad directions human interaction can take.

Perhaps the Greeks did not tell the story of Persephone's descent into the underworld to explain why we have summer and winter, but simply that we have summer and winter. Perhaps it wasn't about why things are the way they are, but simply to explain how things are.

Forgive, but do not forget.

"In perfect love and perfect trust"

does not mean trusting everyone completely and deluding yourself into thinking everyone is flawless.

If I know that a man can be trusted, I trust him.

If I know that a man cannot be trusted, I do not.

If I know that a man can be trusted with my secret, and not my wallet, I give him my secrets to hold but not my wallet.

If I know that a man will save my life, but may lie to me, I trust him with my life, but question his word.

Such is perfect trust. It sounds as a contradiction, but the point is: trust someone to the extent that they can be trusted, and do not let a breach of trust in one area contaminate the trust in other areas that has yet to be broken.

And as for perfect love, love someone for who they are, have been, and will be. See their flaws, and love them. See their beauty, and love it. And love them despite their sins, for to sin is to be human, but bear in mind the rule of perfect trust.

God's Love

We are the gods, but mankind has forgotten his divinity.

Once you accept yourself as a God, and everyone else in the world as a God, only then can you find God's love.

Love yourself, as you would love God and as God would love you.

And love others as you would love God and as God would love you.