If everyone felt love for one another, and acted toward everyone out of this attitude, would we still need religions?
“Love thy neighbor as thyself” is the most fundamental commandment behind the world’s three major religions.
Not just through religions, but all of us want to hold good relationships with those around us, even if it’s only to at least one other person.
The problem lies in that neither the three major religions, nor any other man-made system has a method of achieving “love thy neighbor as thyself.” Many people say that “we just have to love each other,” but they don’t say how we can do it. And so, in every area of human life, no matter how nice we try to be to each other, we always find that our self-aimed desires grow and cause conflicts between us.
If we had a program, a method that could teach us how to love others as ourselves, which would show us how to not fall into all the traps of our self-aimed desires, then the answer to the initial question would be “no, we wouldn’t need religions.”
Is there such a method where we can discover, through research, what love is and how it works, to such a level that we can actually learn how to love each other? Can we actually set “love thy neighbor as thyself” as our goal, and work toward making it a reality? - www.kabbalah.info
Love Links: 8 key love resources
1. The Need for Love - love articles, quotes and resources at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Blog.
2. The Law of Love - article in issue 3 of the e-version of Kabbalah Today.
3. The Law of Equivalence of Form - video stating how everything in lives moves toward balance.
4. Toward Integral Consciousness - video showing scientists discussing love and oneness.
5. The Table of Free Voices - globally-recognized social and creative contributors meet.
6. Why Can't We Just Get Along? - video on why we can't love each other (yet).
7. Unconditional Love - classic lecture on Kabbalah's approach to love by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD.
8. One Law - article on love as the universal law, by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD.
