{"id":1752,"date":"2017-09-19T08:51:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T08:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2017-09-19T08:51:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T08:51:54","slug":"love-is-about-truly-knowingunderstanding-and-what-you-do-for-another-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"LOVE  is about truly knowing,understanding and what you do for another person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the love workshop we were introduced to the book- \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Road Less Traveled<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d by Scott Peck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here Scott Peck shares his perspective on love\u00a0that love is not a\u00a0<i>feeling<\/i>, it is an <i>activity and investment<\/i>. He defines love as, &#8220;The will to extend one&#8217;s self for the purpose of nurturing one&#8217;s own or another&#8217;s spiritual growth&#8221;.\u00a0Love is primarily actions towards nurturing the spiritual growth of another.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 &#8220;the means of spiritual evolution&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 &#8220;feeling in love&#8221;.He also says that love is related to dependency and that true love is linked with the feeling of &#8220;falling in love.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I would like to thank the management for arranging such classes for common\u00a0people like us.We are blessed to get such opportunities:)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Jyoti Pugalia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the love workshop we were introduced to the book- \u201cThe Road Less Traveled\u201d by Scott Peck. Here Scott Peck shares his perspective on love\u00a0that love is not a\u00a0feeling, it is an activity and investment. He defines love as, &#8220;The will to extend one&#8217;s self for the purpose of nurturing one&#8217;s own or another&#8217;s spiritual growth&#8221;.\u00a0Love is primarily actions towards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}