Hi All,
The love class has helped us to pause and introspect ourselves. Though we are aware of most the things discussed in love class, we get to dwell upon those aspects of love. Now after attending the love class, the aspects of love are reiterated in us!!!
Regards
Anbu Packiaraj
Honestly, these classes have been more than hard for me to attend.
Love classes are just not about romantic love or parental love as per say, it is about self love!
Too often when we hear about love myths and realities we examine our partners or others. How often do we have the courage to introspect. I tried and I guess that’s the reason these classes became unbearable after a point.
“Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you.”
~ Unknown
Love is such a vast feeling that can not be summed up in few words or classes. Nonetheless, Brinda ma’am and Krishna ma’am have done a remarkable job trying to get us into the essence of what love really is about.
Regards,
Fatema Topiwala
Love gives you the feeling of independence. So love is not being dependent on each other.
Love is when two people capable of living without each other choose to live together. It is voluntary.
Love is giving the space to each other to grow.
Love is acceptance of each other without expecting to change.
Discipline is the fuel to love.
To summarize, love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth,” which also results in one’s own spiritual growth.
Credits – The Road Less Traveled by M Scott Peck, Brinda Ma’am and Krishna Ma’am.
In the love workshop we were introduced to the book- “The Road Less Traveled” by Scott Peck.
Here Scott Peck shares his perspective on love that love is not a feeling, it is an activity and investment. He defines love as, “The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth”. Love is primarily actions towards nurturing the spiritual growth of another.
The first part of the book consists of discipline, which Scott Peck considers is essential for emotional,spiritual and psychological health and which he describes as “the means of spiritual evolution”.
In the second part, Peck addresses the nature of love, which he considers the driving force behind spiritual growth. Here,he shares the nature of love against a number of common misconceptions about love, he considers it as a very destructive myth when it is solely relying on “feeling in love”.He also says that love is related to dependency and that true love is linked with the feeling of “falling in love.”
I would like to thank the management for arranging such classes for common people like us.We are blessed to get such opportunities:)
Regards,
Jyoti Pugalia
Wow moment for me in the 4 sessions uptill now would be the definition of ‘LOVE’.
“The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own and another’s spiritual growth.” – Dr. M Scott Peck.
Being in the mindset that that love is merely a feeling , where now I have had a paradigm shift that Love is not merely a feeling, in fact love being a feeling has no value till there actions justifying the same.
During all the sessions, I was able to reflect back on my relationships and it made me realize that actually, the fantasy that I held as the definition of being loved is just a myth and in reality, it is deeper than the 3 words – “I love you”. It also gave some insight about how we make people depended by pretending to love them which is being selfish and not actually loving them. In fact, we don’t love our own selves if we are doing it.
Lastly, I would like to thank Brinda Ma’am and Krishna Ma’am for being such a great facilitators and bursting so many of my myths about love and opening my eyes towards actual love and how it is already there in my life in the form of my husband, my parents, few selected besties.
Thanks
Himani Mehta
“The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own and another’s spiritual growth.” – Dr. M Scott Peck.
Everyone has problems. We all know the ideal approach to solve our problems. But at times we are so tied up in our thoughts or work or any other commitment that we just react and neglect the entire process of addressing the root of the problem. We are just focused on moving on with our life. This often leads to lack of contentment. We often use the word “Love” as an escape to these problems.
The love classes helped me identify that immediate solution of a problem at hand is not the only approach. Identifying the root cause is important. Sometimes doing things for others may be categorised as love but it is just a feeling of acknowledgement that we seek. We can truly be capable of loving others only when we love ourselves.
Love is not a feeling or emotion but the actions we consciously take for our growth as well the person we are taking the action for.