Experiences versus things. What can change you the most?

Change to be permanent must have substance attached to it. This substance must always be love.
@innertalks (20908)
Australia
December 9, 2018 5:20pm CST
I was reading what a well-respected self-help author was saying about things and experiences. He, (Jack Canfield) said that:   "Because “things” end up breaking, or becoming obsolete, or end up fading away into the background of our lives. Even that cutting-edge piece of technology, or that beautiful piece of art, will be something you eventually replace or stop noticing and appreciating on a day-to-day basis."     "But an experience stays with you forever."    "Experiences CHANGE you. They teach you something -- about the world, about others, but most importantly about yourself. And they give you memories that you can cherish for the rest of your life, and revisit whenever you’d like to remind yourself of the adventures you’ve had and the accomplishments you’ve achieved."    I was thinking to myself after reading this, is he always right though? Sometimes experiences can be a dime a dozen, repeated ad-nauseum, and you get very little from them. What is it that really is valuable for us in life? My conclusion: Nothing really ever changes you, but love. If love comes to you, that is if you let it do so, every experience can change you, if you see the love in it, or behind it. Every life experience that comes to you is an opportunity to learn something else about love. Even a thing, given with love behind it, can change you, but the king of love, God, can change you the most, that is, when you allow his love to live in you fully being you. Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: Pixabay.com Change to be permanent must have substance attached to it. This substance must always be love.
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@dya80dya (33082)
9 Dec 18
If God is love why do people believe that hell exists? I think love can change everything.
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@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
9 Dec 18
God is love and in God is only love. Outside of God then is Hell. This is if you live or try to live apart from God. Return to God, live within God, and all is love, once more again for you. Hell is always of our own making. God has nothing to do with Hell. This is the truth of God. Yes, love can change everything.
@maximax8 (31055)
• United Kingdom
16 Dec 18
I am keen on visiting different countries. In my early days of travel I believe that I became a more patient person. I went to work for a family in Finland and I came home using an Inter Rail Pass. I changed from a vegetarian to a vegan. I think people change as they get older. Teens to twenties is different from the thirties and forties. I don't yet know what the fifties will be like. When old people retire sometimes they change interests.
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@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
16 Dec 18
Yes, people usually wisen up and change as they get older, and wiser, but some I think, can also return to what they were before, if they become disillusioned by life, thinking that their changing was a mistake, or not really real for themselves. I think there are cycles of change, repeating over time. Some produce cosmetic changes, but the more permanent changes need a deeper change to take place in us. We need to change our underlying beliefs to really change.
• Valdosta, Georgia
10 Dec 18
I agree, our Father is love and He changes everything!! =)
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@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
10 Dec 18
Yes, only God can change us for the better I think. Other changes that we make ourselves could affect us either way, that is, if we haven't prayed to God about them first.
@Shiva49 (26163)
• Singapore
12 Dec 18
Certain experiences revisit me, are tough to erase, and leave a lasting impression. A spiritual acceptance of life, considering it as a divine providence, allows us to rise in consciousness. Then life is savored in all its variety without manmade borders. All are then accepted as from the same source. That is the real change we need now to lift us from the morass of constant upheavals caused by our myopic and selfish outlook - siva
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@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
12 Dec 18
Yes, erected fences and borders are always a short-term solution that disconnects in the long run, rather than connects, because as you say we are all from the same source. We are all on the same gravy train. We are all in this together. We eat off the same plate.
@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
13 Dec 18
@Shiva49 If we don't start playing our role soon, we are in imminent danger of being rolled over.
@Shiva49 (26163)
• Singapore
13 Dec 18
@innertalks Unity in diversity abounds in nature but we, at the apex of creation, find it difficult to accept this basic concept resulting in disharmony. It is time to dismantle our mental blocks to revel in the oneness of creation and the uniqueness in each of us. Then we start to play the role that was meant to be - siva
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