Monday 23 April 2012

Love as more than 'him' or 'her (52 meditations)

Making the world go round - love as more than him or her
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Goldenmedows

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Breath-mantra: 

in-breath: love in
Out-breath: love out

Q. Love - how and in what ways is it the foundation of all we are?
A. God is love. and therefor love is God reflected in varying ways, depths and forms in us, our relationships and in our world.

...Love is the secret of God's holy Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings. 

Love is heaven's kindly light, the Holy Spirit's eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul. 

Love is the cause of God's revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things. 

Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world and the next. 

Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul. 

Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the diverse elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms. 

Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe. 

Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.1


  1. Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá (Haifa: Bahá'í World Centre, 1982), p. 27.


Clearly love here is much more than the Western romantic ideal.  We are left with the suggestion that love, as magnetic force, is the ‘energy-glue’ that makes of all the universe’s parts a Whole?  Love, as the old popular song says, literally as well as metaphorically, makes the world go round.

So love is not just that which binds all successful relationships or friendships or families together it is the force that binds the atoms of all forms, but it even goes beyond that, as Deepak Chopra suggests;

"The material world is full of familiar objects that  we can see, feel, touch, taste and smell. As big  objects become small, shrinking to the size of atoms, our senses fail us. Theoretically the shrinkage has to  stop somewhere, because no atom is smaller than  hydrogen, the first material particle to be born out of the Big Bang. But in fact an amazing transformation  happens beyond the atom - everything solid disappears.


Atoms are composed of vibrating energy packets that  have no solidity at all, no mass or size, nothing for  the senses to see or touch. The Latin word for packet  or package is quantum, the word chosen to describe one  unit of energy inside the atom, and as it turned out,  a new level of reality."


~ Deepak Chopra, How to Know God, p. 29


Taking these two views together love is seen as the attraction between any two ‘bodies’.  It is the Holy Spirit, the Word (logos) manifested in Creation - the universal ‘teaching-machine’ (or Divine extended metaphor) through which we spiritually move upwards and outwards.

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Tuesday 17 April 2012

Building a Culture of Empathy & Compassion for your children

2012-04-06 - Victoria Hodson & Edwin Rutsch: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC
Nonviolent Communications/ Compassionate Communications
http://cultureofempathy.com 

Video Transcripts and more at: 
http://cultureofempathy.com/References/Experts/NVC/Victoria-Hodson.htm

The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy - A portal for empathy and compassion related resources; art, articles, definitions, conferences, experts, history, interviews, newsletter, science, videos, etc. For more on empathy visit our website. This is part of a larger documentary project by Edwin Rutsch on the nature of empathy. We hope you'll connect and get involved in Building a Culture of Empathy.

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All about Empathy: Empathy Expert Big Page: Victoria Kindle Hodson

Saturday 14 April 2012

Terry Eagleton - lecture on Faith & Reason - 'All reason is carried on in a framework of faith even faith in reason itself'.

Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester, delivers the third lecture in a series of lectures entitled “Faith and Fundamentalism: Is Belief in Richard Dawkins Necessary for Salvation?” 

In this lecture, Professor Eagleton explores faith and reason. All reason is carried on in a framework of faith even faith in reason itself.

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Terry Eagleton: "The Death of Criticism?" - YouTube

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Social Theories - the first in a series of lectures by Prof Alan Macfarlane

Filmed as part of a second year course in social anthropology at Cambridge University in November 2001. For further writings on the social theorists and the background, please see www.alanmacfarlane.com 

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For the chart referred to here, please see: 
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http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2010/04/fragment-concepts-of-time-and-the-worl...>

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1. A map of social theories, 1000-2000 by Alan Macfarlane - YouTube

This is the first of a series of lectures on Social Theories

Filmed as part of a second year course in social anthropology at Cambridge University in November 2001. For further writings on the social theorists and the background, please see www.alanmacfarlane.com
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For the chart referred to here, please see:
http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2010/04/fragment-concepts-of-time-and-the-worl...>

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