Category: Love Class

My experience of the love class has been absolutely great! I express my gratitude to the school for presenting such platforms where we can freely exchange our opinions, and continuously evolve as humans!

Once we learn to create EBA’s with people in our lives, about which we learnt during the life class, the next step is to put LOVE in it, that deepens the bond. This opportunity was brought forth by the recent love class which threw light on the importance of taking legitimate pains during the process of expressing our love towards others. These pains lead to our growth as humans. Another important element while loving someone is DISCIPLINE. We learnt about the different tools of discipline,while discussing several personal examples where we could exercise these tools, to make our lives more meaningful.

In the consecutive session of the love class, we discussed about the definition of love, as presented by Mr.Scott Pack in his work, The road less travelled. “Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.”; Each phrase of the sentence was interpreted really well! With the help of role plays and discussions, we clarified our ideas about all the myths associated with loving someone! The elements of love namely, Care, respect, responsibility and knowledge , portrayed in the movie, emphasized the big idea behind the love class!

Thank you FS, Nandini ma’am,Priyanka ma’am,and all my fellow mates in the love class, for your wonderful insights!Looking forward to much more in near future!! 🙂 🙂

Well, this is what my husband told me when I asked him how would he define love…and this was just after I finished sharing my learning and experience of love classes…and Scott Peck’s definition of love…

In reality, this was an attempt of my husband to cheer me up as I was missing my family and schools friends whom I don’t get to meet so often post marriage. Scott Peck has rightly said that love is not about falling in love with someone hopelessly or being dependent on someone to fulfill your needs..its also not about sacrificing own happiness and inner peace every time and then expecting that the person would understand your pain without you expressing it… Love is just like any other relationship which needs to be nurtured unconditionally… This is what I said when we were asked to define what is love… One has to go beyond his or her ego boundaries, fear, doubts, weaknesses, failures to really love unconditionally forever… So it also means that love needs to be practiced and demonstrated in the adverse situation; by accepting the person as he or she is and most importantly, by accepting ourselves. It’s not easy and it requires efforts, courage, and willingness to love by maintaining the essence of the relationship; which means there has to enough room in the relationship which allows two people to grow… to grow emotionally and spiritually.

I am blessed to be surrounded by people who have loved me by accepting me as I am and have encouraged me to love them truly, madly, deeply and fiercely. These relationships are my strength and my center of focus due to which I am able to maintain the balance between work and personal life. It is this love which makes me believe that life is easy…

It was a wonderful experience being a part of ‘Love Classes’. It gave me the insight to introspect myself and believe ‘Life is difficult’ and I am not the only one who is going through the pain of life and worries. As Scott says ”Without discipline, we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline, we can solve all problems.” If we accept the truth we can face any challenges in our life.

It was an eye opener for me to understand about illegitimate pain and legitimate pain it will help me throughout my life. It also gave a glimpse about Misconceptions of love, Marriage, Forgiveness and Parenting which are the most important part of our life.

The life class lesson will always help to grow myself and become more independent and confident, it will help me to take any decision without being worried or petrified.

Love is selfless and if we extend ourselves it will surely lead to our spiritual growth.

I would like to thank our facilitators Ravindra sir and Sheila Madam throughout the life class journey. It was a wonderful experience as we team members including our facilitators shared our feelings together.

— On behalf of “Kalpana Iyer”

This day I wow myself, I love truly and deeply in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I made. I make the experiences each moment, I am conscious, I make decisions.

During Love class each topic like: Problems and pain, Responsibility, Dedication to Reality, The Myth of Romantic Love, More about Ego boundaries, Dependency and it’s endless, I revisited all my journey of life through the glass of Love classes and deeply introspects in my life. I really revisits and keep checking myself that am I allign with the things which I learn? and in every introspect I came to know something new and updated myself with the same. Learning is not something which just can be learn but it should be the application and check our understanding with the previous knowledge. When I was going through the process of each topic I can very well connect it with my life and able to understand each phases through I pass and prepare for the phase which is going to be come. I am really thankful to our school to give me such an opportunity to live, to feel free and to get chance to introspect in my own life. We are doing so many things in our life but we don’t have time to look behind and to think about the future but I get that chance over here for the same. 

Thank you so much my facilitators Ravindra Agrawal & Shehla shaikh

It has been a wonderful journey of knowing and understanding the real essence of life . Love , marriage and parenting are the important stages of ones life where there are many misconceptions and believes attached.
The statement – “Life is difficult ” was the highlight of the whole journey for me. As accepting the situation and taking charge of the same makes it easy to deal with.
An eye opener of the journey was the ‘parenting session, where being a mother I could relate myself . Parenting session was a learning, understanding , reflecting and realizing.
Lastly, “Love is extending yourself “- be it a daughter, a wife or a mother……

A heartily thanks to my facilitators.

I understood the true meaning of Love,love class is Introspection in our life. It is a real life application.Parenting one of my area of interest and I am very keen and attached to my kid. My learning from this class about parenting is I have to give quality time to my kid.

Different stages of marriage life is a new learning me .Marriage is definitely not an easy ride, its a journey with lots of learning. My personal view is life is not difficult but “life is game, its play” . I am still working on balancing my life .

Would like to start with a quote from the great Dalai Lama:    ” When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace & joy”.

At the start of the first session, I was thinking why will we be discussing about love as love is a natural feeling that one experiences right from birth ( starting with love from parents and then others). Only once the session started, I realised that how love was connected to life, happiness and how it could affect the journey of one’s life.

It is a fact that ” life is difficult ” and the choice is entirely ours,  how we lead and live it. Life being not easy, we come across many problems and sometimes we make it more complicated. If we accept the fact that problems are always going to be there and face it strongly, life would go on far more smoothly rather than crying over it and end up putting less efforts towards overcoming the issues. Suffering was also one of the points covered and it is again a truth that suffering is always emotional. There is pain involved in love and relationships and pain can either be physical or emotional. How important is suffering for an individual as it is definitely an experience and learning for a person.

Another important learning was delayed gratification and how it could also affect one’s life and relationship. I could do reality check for myself over it and discovered how things could have been smooth and better, if I would had done certain activities timely instead of delaying the same. Running away from responsibilities and problems would not do any good at all & openness to challenges would really reap dividends.

Further, as love’s definition, 8 stages of love, dependency & entitles of marriage was covered, it helped me do a reality check, reflect and apply the learnings personally especially to strengthen the bond & relationship with family, friends & colleagues. I see myself calm and responsible now responding to personal issues and fulfilling the expectations of everyone at home.

Parenting & forgiveness was widely covered and the valuable sharing by everyone during the session is definitely going to benefit. Parenting tips and challenges were noted as I am yet to become a parent and various experiences shared during the session will definitely help me at some point of time. To forgive and forget is a virtue which is really difficult but once the person applies it in actual he would definitely feel light and relaxed as it would surely result in improved relationship.

Would like to thank Hasina maam & Falguni maam for providing us the space where we could extend ourselves & share individual opinions & experiences. Also, would like to thank all the participants for showing tremendous spirit & enthusiasm during all the sessions, making them very  interesting & highly interactive. Looking forward towards the next step – Integrity.

First of all thank you so much FS for conducting Life/Love classes that have actually changed approach towards life.

I have accepted that Life is difficult and once accepted, I could actually see the changes in my life and now I am able to handle it in an appropriate way and able to enjoy. One more thing I have learned is that every problem has a solution, I think the thing is that first, we need to understand the problem properly so that we can come up with multiple solutions/options to solve a problem. In daily life, we come up with a lot of problems and if we starting thinking of solutions for those problems then it will make our life easier. And sometimes few problems or things give us pain but I think that pain actually makes me strong and ultimately I’m growing. My approach towards problems has become more positive.

Now whenever any problem comes, the first thing I do is I make myself calm and cool, say myself that not to worry and let’s find a solution for it. This thing has actually boosted my confidence.

Thanks so much to all facilitators and participants for sharing and making me grow.. 🙂

Regards,
Karan Chevli

My journey of love class is an enriching one. It helped me to love myself. The  journey of my  life is now smooth to sail,  be it a professional or personal life. The power of acceptance is wonderful. It helped to forgive and build on relationship. It also helped to face challenges with courage.

The most important part is confrontation which I generally avoid. It helped to build on relationship. Listening is an art.

“Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.”
― Roy T. Bennett

It’s important to listen to understand then to reply is a key take away from the love class.