Week Four – Ripples of Love: Warm-Heartedness – Podcast, Reflective Guide and Forum

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Week Four – Ripples of Love – The Force of Warmheartedness

When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity. -Dali Lama The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant — before they get a chance to cool. […]

Emptying Ourselves of Ill-Will

“Emptiness is the best starting point. So, let go of all your prejudices and be neutral. Do you know why this glass is so useful? Because it’s empty. ” -Bruce Lee What does this quote have to do with loving difficult or unlovable people? Take some time to ponder it. Is there something within me […]

Week Three: Ripples of Love – Loving the Unlovable

Think of a person you find it difficult to love. Perhaps they’ve hurt you. Perhaps they irritate your sensitivities or sensibilities. Do we “owe” that person love? And if we do, what is required of us? Consider the words of Joseph Goldstein, The Sanskrit word maitri and the Pali word metta both mean “lovingkindness” or […]

Week Two – Ripples of Love Podcast, Reflective-Discussion Guide, and Forum

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Week Two- Ripples of Love: Love Connections

Ruptures are a daily occurrence in all our relationships and … our systems only need to receive resonance and reflection on the first try at connecting about 33 percent of the time to cultivate security. All the rest is optimally rupture and repair. Bonnie Badenoch Relationships are like dances in which people try to find […]

Week One Podcast and Reflective Guide – Ripples of Love – Aldea Sunday Series

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What Does It Mean To Love?

Do you agree that loving everything is what makes humans the happiest? Let’s assume for a moment this quote is sound and accurate – that loving everything makes humans the happiest. Then, of course, the next question is this: What does is it mean to love everything? Or even more simply: What does it mean […]

Ripples of Love: Week One – The Two Sides of Love

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living […]