Comments on: The Golden Rule of Unicorns http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/the-golden-rule-of-unicorns/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: karen http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/the-golden-rule-of-unicorns/comment-page-1/#comment-62271 karen Thu, 08 May 2008 02:01:52 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/463/the-golden-rule-of-unicorns/#comment-62271 Thank you, Iago, I really love this collection from all the great religious/spiritual traditions. It reminds me that we are all connected and that it is just our ego's that keep us apart. Thank you, Iago,
I really love this collection from all the great religious/spiritual traditions. It reminds me that we are all connected and that it is just our ego’s that keep us apart.

]]> By: Iago http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/the-golden-rule-of-unicorns/comment-page-1/#comment-61420 Iago Thu, 01 May 2008 23:45:41 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/463/the-golden-rule-of-unicorns/#comment-61420 Whoah, Karen, you quote Chief Dan George. That is too cool. This is my second posting to your blog after reading My Internet Business. And I am totally with you on this stuff. Unconditional acceptance out of universal love. With a happy appreciation of the ironic thrown into the mix. Now I'm gonna check out this Unicorn site you mention. Hooray, hooray . . . . Whoah, Karen, you quote Chief Dan George. That is too cool. This is my second posting to your blog after reading My Internet Business. And I am totally with you on this stuff. Unconditional acceptance out of universal love. With a happy appreciation of the ironic thrown into the mix. Now I’m gonna check out this Unicorn site you mention. Hooray, hooray . . . .

]]> By: karen http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/the-golden-rule-of-unicorns/comment-page-1/#comment-59082 karen Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:11:13 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/463/the-golden-rule-of-unicorns/#comment-59082 Awareness is the first step. And so often the fault we see in another is the fault we cannot accept in ourselves.... All part of our Spiritual journey... Awareness is the first step.
And so often the fault we see in another is the fault we cannot accept in ourselves….

All part of our Spiritual journey…

]]> By: Chris Cade http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/the-golden-rule-of-unicorns/comment-page-1/#comment-59076 Chris Cade Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:45:32 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/463/the-golden-rule-of-unicorns/#comment-59076 Thanks for sharing, Karen - I couldn't agree more with you about unconditional acceptance. The would be a much less stressful place if everybody could learn to embrace our differences rather than reject them. I know I have been challenged in this regard in many ways, both large and small, and even today find myself challenged by that in more subtle ways. It's easy to say "Oh, I accept other people as they are." But what if they do something that truly is opposed to our way of living? Can we accept that child abuse happens in the world? What if it were our next door neighbor, or our brother/sister abusing their child? Those are more extreme examples, but in my daily life I find myself challenged with smaller bits and pieces. For example, when my wife and I have differences to work out... it is so easy to think that the issues she has with me are about me, and that the issues I have with her are about her. But more often than not, our issues are our own and the other person acted in a way which forced us to see our issues... and nobody really likes to look at their own issues. :) So when we talk about unconditional acceptance, if we can see that the issues we have with the way other people act are actually our own issues... our own pains that we don't want to look at, then we can take a significant step towards healing those issues and moving to a place of truly unconditional acceptance. Easier said than done, and that's why it often takes lifetimes to unconditionally love 100%. I know I'm not there yet, but as awareness is the first step I do feel I'm moving in that direction. Thanks for sharing, Karen – I couldn’t agree more with you about unconditional acceptance. The would be a much less stressful place if everybody could learn to embrace our differences rather than reject them.

I know I have been challenged in this regard in many ways, both large and small, and even today find myself challenged by that in more subtle ways.

It’s easy to say “Oh, I accept other people as they are.” But what if they do something that truly is opposed to our way of living?

Can we accept that child abuse happens in the world? What if it were our next door neighbor, or our brother/sister abusing their child?

Those are more extreme examples, but in my daily life I find myself challenged with smaller bits and pieces.

For example, when my wife and I have differences to work out… it is so easy to think that the issues she has with me are about me, and that the issues I have with her are about her.

But more often than not, our issues are our own and the other person acted in a way which forced us to see our issues… and nobody really likes to look at their own issues. :)

So when we talk about unconditional acceptance, if we can see that the issues we have with the way other people act are actually our own issues… our own pains that we don’t want to look at, then we can take a significant step towards healing those issues and moving to a place of truly unconditional acceptance.

Easier said than done, and that’s why it often takes lifetimes to unconditionally love 100%. I know I’m not there yet, but as awareness is the first step I do feel I’m moving in that direction.

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