The First Paradoxical Commandment

I like to look at the Paradoxical Commandments as the modern day 10-Commandments that people general try to live up to in their everyday lives.

The first Paradoxical Commandment is: People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them Anyway! This is really something reasonably hard to do.

I remember reading in a Peanut cartoon strip created by Charles Schultz : Lucy, one the 'characters' of the Peanut cartoon strip once said "I love mankind. It's people I can't stand"!
Pretty interesting yet so very true with many of us.
People can certainly be difficult. Some are hard to love. Some make it hard for us to love them. Some just don't deserve to be loved.

However Theodore Roethke once said "Love begets Love". Do you believe that love can transform people and make them more lovable?

We need to learn to enjoy the immense personal meaning that comes from giving and receiving the gift of love.

It's a Crazy World...

In life sometmes; who you know is often more important than what you know.

Go ahead, you can say it; the world is crazy beyond words. If it doesn't make sense to you, you're right. It doesn't really make sense.

The point is not to complaint about it. The point is not to give up hope.

The point is this: the world doesn't make sense, but you can make sense!.

It is possible to find personal meaning in life. It's all about finding personal meaning in a crazy world.

For the rest of your life, you can do what you believe is right and good and true becos' "it makes sense to you".

If you do what is right, good and true, you will often be appreciated for your contributions.

But if you can find personal meaning without the world's applause then you are free.

You are free to do what makes sense to you, whether or not others appreciate it.

You are free to be who you really are.

You are free to be who you were meant to be.

You are free to find meaning that others miss

And when you find that meaning, you will find a happiness than any you have ever known.