love without remembering.
I am around and kicking He!He!He!.
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As the whole world and the individuals that inhabit it get increasingly cocooned, it is critical that one spends time with one’s family.The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Family is the first social unit for developing the qualities of the heart. A true family grows and moves through life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether a biological family or an extended family of people attracted to each other based on heart resonance and mutual support, the word "family" implies warmth, a place where the core feelings of the heart are nurtured. Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true family values. While we have differences, we remain "family" by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security in a stressful world.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
There was this man who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water. He decided to save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung him. The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the scorpion stung him again.
A man nearby told him to stop saving the scorpion that kept stinging him.
But the men said: "It is the nature of the scorpion to sting. It is my nature to love. Why should I give up my nature to love just because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting?"
Don’t give up loving.
Don’t give up your goodness.
Even if people around you sting.
“Children make you want to start life over.” ~Muhammad Ali.
Give love without remembering and take without forgetting.
When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.
Oh yes. Couldn’t have stated it better. We see children and we don’t want to grow up ever. A life so pure and innocent of all the thing that the world have become.. Of animals and plants, and dreams and super heroes.. and demons at night and calling out for mom.
Wishing you well my friend

Very beautiful reminder. I’m going to read your post before this one, because I’m a big believer in forgiveness and am always wondering why it isn’t emphasized. Why aren’t children taught how important forgiveness is for their happiness and everyone else’s?
Comment by Kathleen Maher — October 20, 2009 @ 9:09 pm