love_without_expectations magpie life without borders life without expectations love without borders 040513 ... magpie love life live love 040513 ... cocoon saosin: from an old chinese proverb: love with caution 040514 ... .nom unconditional love 050125 ... .nom the_only_way 050125 ... Bespeckled You may enter into love without expectations, but don't count on it remaining that way. 050125 ... unhinged oxymoron no such thing even unconditional love holds at least one expectation; that some day you might get some back in return. yeah, you stick around no matter what, no matter how many times you get stomped, slapped, thrown away. yeah, we all expect love in return in at least some deep dark corner of our hearts and minds. love a nonrenewable resource that needs replenished every now and again. i have kidded myself over the years saying i have no expectations of my fellow human beings. no matter how long and hard i try to convince myself that i don't expect anything from anyone, i still expect that someday i will be able to find someone to love me back. only worsened by the fact that i did find someone that loved me back. disappointment and expectation go hand in hand and what is love but disappointment? 050126 ... once again love with out expectation... is it really love at all? Is it love, to love someone no matter how they are? If they are evil? If they are indifferent? Should you still bestow all the passion you command on these people? Perhaps it qualifies in a Christian sort of way, as God Love, but even God has expectations. There is no thing on earth that loves without expectation. It is inhuman. It is inconcievable. We all have reasons. 050126 ... .nom what is evil? are people evil? or are their actions? a matter of perspective? 050129 ... .nom god=all=love=within 050129 ... .nom within&without 050129 ... googling for the fun of it http://www.ts.co.nz/~gpettitt/GoodwillPatterns.html http://www.joydancer.com/notebook/prophesies.html 050129 ... . http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/Unconditional_Love.htm 050129 ... . http://cheshirenonsense.tripod.com/bonus_nocens.html 050129 ... . http://www.speakeasy.org/~logos/GoodandEvil.htm 050129 ... . http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/buddhismtoday/bc032.htm 050129 ... . http://www.sgi-usa.org/publications/world_tribune/b2b/onenessofgoodandevil.pdf 050129 ... googling for the fun of it http://www.coping.org/innerhealing/uncond.htm 050129 ... g f t f o i http://www.vedanta.com/getpage.cfm?file=what_is_evil.html http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/com/com_plot.html 050129 ... .nom actions may be perceived as being good/evil but i do not believe people are good/evil or that necessarily even there actions are in the untimate sense of oneness perhaps there is only ignorance perhaps not even that 050201 ... .nom *ultimate 050201 ... kerry does not exist 050201 ... .nom http://www.nonduality.com/ 050201 ... nom circles, circles 061007 ... misstree delicious and frolicking appreciation for every moment's presence but no presumption that tomorrow will carry the same feathered smiles and no sadness should it not 061008 ... kerry a nice idea, but unlikely. between humans, anyway, because we have a sense of past and future and we (sometimes fortunately sometimes not) remember our mistakes and inconsistent desires and we can compare what actually happened versus what we hoped for. an exception: he said to me, "i promise no matter what happens between us i will never be an asshole to you." the only love without expectations in my life is the love i have for my dog. i don't expect him to wake up every morning and adore me, recently i met a loveless dog (dad says he thinks she has some kind of personality disorder) so i know that when he (louie) nudges the door open with his nose and wakes me up with his breath in my ear and stares at me while i stretch and say only pretending to be annoyed "why, why?" take a breath i know that this is a little good-morning present and it is dangerous to expect presents. 230619 what's it to you? who go blather from