Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Do we need a love school? How would we teach it?


I have questions for you to ponder, if you want.

I'll build up the context first. When I look around the world, I see people and organisations, like banks, driven by and addicted to greed. I also see countries spending vast amounts of resources on "defence", which is driven partly by fear and partly by greed. The profits in defence industries are enormous. People stay in jobs they hate, in organisations that do no objective good. This partly out of fear of spreading their wings and partly out of greed for the "goods" the jobs provide.

We also know that happiness and fulfilment and satisfaction come from love, not greed or fear. I love helping people be the best they can, I love inspiring hope and joy in people and organisations and encouraging people. I love learning how to do this better and better. Love isn't a feeling. It's a verb. It's something you DO. I've helped dozens of people discover what they love to do and encouraged people to go and do it. Love is whatever you do that leads to growth in the wholeness, integrity, health, confidence and fulfilment of the beloved. (Which can be an individual, a team, an organisation, a garden or a planet).

We could, and maybe we have to, have a world, which we work together in love to heal and savour.

I have spent much of my life learning how to love. It's the "secret" ingredient that underlies all my practice. Of course, I've got much more to learn. I think we urgently need a "Love School", because we just need more love, which will chase away the greed and fear.

Now I come to my questions.

Do you think we need more love in the world? Why?

"What is the curriculum of a "Love School" and how do we teach it?" (Of course I am asking this myself).

Answers on a e-postcard, please!

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