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Derek Young

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Love is not the strongest emotional force within a person......

Disclaimer: I am writing in a conversational tone, so please bear with me.

As I was standing in my shower earlier, all of a sudden I came to the realization that selfless, kind acts positively impacts the environment of an individual. I instantly felt light-headed. I couldn't standup any longer, so I sat on the tub, though that wasn't the only epiphany that I had at that second.

The weird part was that when I realized the power of selflessness, this lead me to the realization that I just had an epiphany. So, as silly as that sounds, I had an epiphany about having an epiphany.

I began to contemplate the chemical changes, even though I didn't fully understand these chemical changes, in my mind when I had the epiphany 'that selfless kind acts positively impacts the environment of an individual', I then realized that the instant that I had this strong epiphany, which has never happened before, but this is the part that caused me have another epiphany.

If I could have measured my mind the instant that these chemical changes occurred when I had an epiphany, then I bet that they would have been really intense. I think back to the epic fairytale love story I had just watched before my shower, and this lead me to realize that love and selflessness together is a "powerful magic".

This brought me to a strong conclusion that my epiphanies accumulated together felt like a supernova just went off in my mind! This led me to the conclusion that the Power of Epiphanies is the strongest emotional force within an individual human being. Epiphanies, more addictive than Love, but heals your heart faster than Selfless Acts.

Multiple epiphanies truly felt better than anything I have ever felt before within my body. This is what sets us apart from others species on Earth; it is the ability for multiple epiphanies at an instant, which sets us apart. Epiphanies is also known by others as insight.

Thank you for reading my thoughts. Hope to read yours. =)

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Topics: Animal behaviour Multiple Epiphanies Selfless Acts epiphany insight love
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    lynn eschbach 30+

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    May 20 2012: So many epiphanies! Would one have guessed there could be one epiphany after another after another.

    On a more serious note . . . i have proposed that 'to care' is more important than 'to love'. Caring is that selflessness of which you speak, whereas love looks for something in return.
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      Frans Kellner 100+

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      May 20 2012: Lynn,
      To care is the result of love.
      To expect something in return isn't love, to my mind it is business.
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        lynn eschbach 30+

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        May 20 2012: To care is the result of being human.
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          Derek Young 30+

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          May 25 2012: Love is chemicals with the equivalence to cocaine (watch the Tedx above by Helen Fisher), caring is less obsessive and addictive, but spreading positive energy will always loop from the giver to reciever, then continues looping. Those that break these positive energies are lacking or without positive energy, but another with positive energy must spread that energy for that individual to start spreading the positive energy again. Those that lack positivity in their lives will have a hard time starting that initiative to be positive, but the strong will always bounce back, though everyone could use some therapy in life from their environment. Spread the positive energy and that is what brings about our care, but love is also a good thing, though it focuses one person to another individual, so allow empathy to play its part. =)

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