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.
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