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I've been evaluating my participation in the Human Awareness Institute lately. I have reasons for being less involved recently and my focus might not align with HAI's focus sufficiently for my previous depth of involvement.
That said, I had reason this morning to review the workshop descriptions of HAI's Love, Intimacy and sexuality series.
I am inspired again. :)
I've lived for extended times without love in my heart and extended times with love overflowing. Not just romantic love (although I have experienced that, too), but love without qualifications. The core of love that rests in the center of parent-child love or love between siblings and friends. It's pure and vital. There are no strings and it weathers all storms.
It is elusive. Our internal monologue denies it's existence. Left to our own devices, we experience it rarely. We can, however, experience it nearly all the time. I know that to be true because I can put myself in that place almost as quickly as turning on a light in a dark room.
And the HAI series is very specific training in getting out one's head and into one's heart. Level 1 is called "The Miracle of Love." Beneath our superficial judgements of worthiness, beyond our definitions of attractive and regardless of our sexual interest in other people exists the commonality of our humanity. It is the essence of being that can create love over a weekend. Our attitudes about people can never be the same.
I love my life, I love my friends. And I love you.
That said, I had reason this morning to review the workshop descriptions of HAI's Love, Intimacy and sexuality series.
I am inspired again. :)
I've lived for extended times without love in my heart and extended times with love overflowing. Not just romantic love (although I have experienced that, too), but love without qualifications. The core of love that rests in the center of parent-child love or love between siblings and friends. It's pure and vital. There are no strings and it weathers all storms.
It is elusive. Our internal monologue denies it's existence. Left to our own devices, we experience it rarely. We can, however, experience it nearly all the time. I know that to be true because I can put myself in that place almost as quickly as turning on a light in a dark room.
And the HAI series is very specific training in getting out one's head and into one's heart. Level 1 is called "The Miracle of Love." Beneath our superficial judgements of worthiness, beyond our definitions of attractive and regardless of our sexual interest in other people exists the commonality of our humanity. It is the essence of being that can create love over a weekend. Our attitudes about people can never be the same.
I love my life, I love my friends. And I love you.