How to Manifest a Culture of Love 2
How to Manifest a Culture of Love 2
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 How to Manifest a Culture of Love 2Faced with human suffering, all people of compassion must confront this dilemma: either become numb to the pain of those around you or begin to take action on their behalf. (Oscar Romero) Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. (Seneca) You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) One place you might start doing a kindness is with the less fortunate, like women. If you are a man, understand Sexual Consent & Harassment and act on it. If the findings on emotions and health mean anything, it is that medical care that neglects how people feel as they battle a chronic or severe disease is no longer adequate. It is time for medicine to take more methodical advantage of the link between emotion and health. What is now the exception could – and should – be part of the mainstream, so that a more caring medicine is available to us all. At the least it would make medicine more humane. And, for some, it could speed the course of recovery. “Compassion,” as one patient put it in an open letter to his surgeon, “is not mere hand holding. It is good medicine.” (Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, p.185)  A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. (Albert Einstein) When you feel anxious or irritated, instead of worrying or going around bothering others, just remain calm. Start with a deep breath, then say a word with love, do something with love, send a loving thought, and you will see that what was brewing inside you and turning sour is washed away. In asking love for help, you open a spring within you. Then let love set to work and it will purify everything. You see, it is quite easy, all you need to do is to open your heart and set love in motion. Try it, and you will wonder why you never tried this method before. We hear love spoken of and we laugh, we play around with love instead of using it as the most effective means of salvation. (O.M. Aïvanhov) Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. (Gandhi) Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. (Saint Teresa of Avila)  Love is also about cleaning up your mess, staying where you are, working through the issues; it’s not simply romantic love at all. (Jeanette Winterton, cited in The Guardian, posted and accessed 25 July 2021) Love would be leaving it [fossil fuels] in the ground. (Peter Kalmus, 13 June 2021 tweet) [Repair Things!] "In the western world, we are actively encouraged to fight the process of ageing. We value youth and new things above all else. This worldview contributes to wasteful purchases which then contribute to the environmental emergency we all face. Fast fashion is a major player in ecological destruction and pollution. We are told that ageing is bad and unattractive, and that we must avoid it at all costs. The problem is, that like our clothes, we all age... Old age is inescapable, but if we are honest about it, there can be grace and beauty in it. Surely, we can see that this must be so, and when we try to deny it by avoiding old things that are worn, rather than learning to love them, we somehow deny our own reality. To repair something (anything) is a defiant act, flying in the face of consumerist values and products. (Molly Martin, The Guardian, posted and accessed 1 May 2021) If we ever make it out of this death trap of a time, it will be in no small part because we will have relearned that we, as individuals, are made of thousands of relationships with the living world, and these can be reciprocal & regenerative, or exploitative & destructive. Every choice of consumption, every object, every piece of food and drink of water, is an act in that great net of relationships. And most often, the most loving and most giving choice is the one NOT to consume anything. That is the choice that gives life back. (Prof Julia Steinberger, 12 August 2022 tweets)  Engaging in conflict is the sign of love... Indifference is the sign of disconnection. (Roger Hallam, YouTube, 1h31m8s, posted 14 November 2022, accessed 15 November 2022) Compassion is noticing the distress, suffering or disadvantage of yourself or others, and then having the skills to do something about it. (Prof Frances Maratos, an expert in affective science at the University of Derby, quoted in The Guardian, posted 16 June 2023, accessed 22 June 2023) At present, most of us live in a consumer society. Buy, buy, buy. Consume, consume, consume. Every day, whether it's TV or social media, we are enticed to keep consuming. I once read someone say that instead of zombie-like consuming, you need to be producing or creating. For most of us, this need not be huge, expensive projects. It can simply be sending out kind and loving thoughts and prayers. Pray, pray, pray. Love, love, love. Every day. This is how to manifest a Culture of Love. (Bruce Mitchell, 27 June 2023) Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at the time. The compassionate Buddha has a smile in one eye and a tear in the other, and our Buddha mission is to lead people to true freedom, not to hold their hand and tell them that everything is going to be all right. In teaching, compassion means doing whatever needs to be done to get to the next phase. (Gabrielle Roth, Maps to Ecstasy)  Learn to work with divine love, to kindle it within you and shed its light on all living creatures, on all things, even trees, mountains and oceans. In this way, your existence will bring good to the whole world. Even when you are alone, you can speak words of peace, hope and joy for all men and women on earth, knowing that your words will have an effect. Always try to improve the situation around you by thoughts and words that add something positive. Begin by trying to create harmony and light in yourself (for you cannot give others something you do not possess), and then when you sense that harmony and light are a reality within you, project them outwards. This is what it means to work with divine love. (O.M. Aïvanhov) The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. (Thomas Jefferson) |
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