Love or Fear

Sunday, 6th June 2010

I was talking to a friend the other day about decision making and she said the most interesting thing - all decisions are based on either love or fear. I’m not sure if I agree with that but I thought it would be an interesting topic to look at this week. Do we actually base all our decisions on just two emotions of love or fear? Or is there more to it?

My friend was referring to the book series “Conversations with God”. The story goes that the author, Neale Donald Walsch, was at a point in his life where things weren’t going well and he was so angry that he decided to sit down and write a letter to God and ask him exactly why his life wasn’t working out the way it should. He wrote a series of questions down and soon began to find answers for each one and this became the foundation for the book series.

I’ve never read the books myself but they sound interesting and I’m fascinated by the hypothesis that all of our decisions are based on either love or fear. After looking at the major principles behind the Conversation with God series, Neale refers to these basic emotions as the “primal duality” which I suppose extends from human evolution and maybe there is something to it. You’ve never seen a depressed Lion have you? (Exclude Madagascar!)

Neale goes on to examine the scenario of a parent who saves a child from being killed in traffic. Do they do this out of love or fear? Essentially it’s a combination of both as it is the parents love for the child that overcomes their fear of their own death in order to risk saving the child from their death. It would appear in this case that love overcomes fear.

And as a the great philosopher Lennon once said “All you need is love!”, although I’m not convinced.

In a final attempt to understand the whole concept I looked back on all the major decisions that I’ve made in my life so far and weighed them up against love vs fear. It would appear that every single one of them had the basis of “for love” or “for fear” attached to them. Interesting...

So what do you think? Is there any truth to it? Do we make all our major decisions based on love or fear? Or is there more to it? This week I challenge you to think about all of the major decisions in your life and weigh them up against love or fear.

Let me know what you think!

Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!

AJ~

Author: AJ Kulatunga

Category:

Inspire, Conversations with God, Neale Donald Walsch, Love, Fear