@Aion
@Austin
Let me address both of your comments by saying: I think you are reading too much into what I said. I certainly did not intend it like you guys are implying. Sorry for my poor wording.
What I meant was: everyone and everything in the world is your family. We should strive to lean more in that direction (pretty basic and simple spiritual platitude). I didn't mean it to sound like that if you weren't living perfectly unconditional love with everyone you meet, you are a spiritual failure and you might as well give up trying to love anyone.
I was just redundantly pointing out that we are all one, so to treat family like family, and to not treat others (strangers) in a similarly warm manner makes no sense, spiritually speaking.
Though even family fight from time to time. We just tend to get in the habit of not thinking of strangers as family, so naturally we end up treating them less importantly. Please understand, I'm not devaluing familial relationships and of course there are definitely green ray components to familial relationships.
I've just seen a lot of "conditional love" in my life from certain family members that had been masqueraded as "unconditional love" when it obviously wasn't.
@Austin
Let me address both of your comments by saying: I think you are reading too much into what I said. I certainly did not intend it like you guys are implying. Sorry for my poor wording.
What I meant was: everyone and everything in the world is your family. We should strive to lean more in that direction (pretty basic and simple spiritual platitude). I didn't mean it to sound like that if you weren't living perfectly unconditional love with everyone you meet, you are a spiritual failure and you might as well give up trying to love anyone.
I was just redundantly pointing out that we are all one, so to treat family like family, and to not treat others (strangers) in a similarly warm manner makes no sense, spiritually speaking.
Though even family fight from time to time. We just tend to get in the habit of not thinking of strangers as family, so naturally we end up treating them less importantly. Please understand, I'm not devaluing familial relationships and of course there are definitely green ray components to familial relationships.
I've just seen a lot of "conditional love" in my life from certain family members that had been masqueraded as "unconditional love" when it obviously wasn't.