haunting thoughts

I absolutely love Kierkegaard! It is by far my favorite of the readings.
I would just like to say, i decided to randomly open the book and read wherever. This is what i opened to:   There are two possible situations -- one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: Do it or do not do it-- you will regret both." I literally laughed out loud! At first i laughed because this really is an oxi-moron. But then i did realize that i needed to read the context of this. I still found it funny, and i guess this would be why i love this reading so much! :)
In the reading this week, especially the reading "works of love" i find it interesting how Kierkegaard goes into deep detail of how we are supposed to love our neighbors as ourselves. Speaking of what God had in the ten commandments, this is one of them. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves. This seems simple, right? Well, Kierkegaard goes into what the real deeper meaning of this would be. If Scripture says we are to love our neighbors as "ourselves" would that not provoke self-love? Is it saying we are supposed to love ourselves and therefore love others like this? It seems to make sense. But then again, self-love seems to place yourself before others and ultimately before God himself, does it not? I dont know, i could be taking this completely wrong. Kierkegaard then takes it a step further: who is our neighbor? Would our neighbor not be those closest to us? Family? a loved one? So what does this mean for us? I find it easy to love those closest to me. And these are the things that haunt me ;)

p.s I commented on Jamie's post!