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THE PATH OF HEART: LOVE LESSONS
The Foundation of Caring and the Path to and of Being
INTRODUCTION
Caring is the very foundation and essence of all kinds of care-giving, and affects for good or bad all levels of professional and para-professional service workers and their functioning - their efficacy and outcomes.
Giving care or Care-giving can be defined behaviorally and attitudinally as being kind, concerned, considerate, respectful, understanding, helpful, empathic, healing, peaceful, and on and on…all, droplets from the sense of caring – really from the ocean, the sea of love. The true foundation and basis of all caring is love and ones loving attitude and behavior.
For it is love that heals… It is love that provides solace… it is love that brings a sense of belonging and acceptance… it is love that brings peace... It is love that limits suffering…It is love that brings safety….it is love that nurtures…it is love that empowers… it is love that knows and understands…it is love that brings us together…it is love that opens our hearts and expands our consciousness, it is love that creates, enabling all this growth and development - the evolution of humanity. And finally, it is love that brings us to the source, the ground of being and to self-realization.
To serve is to love. Thus all people who serve others are in effect lovers, and when you think about that….that includes a lot of people, a lot of us. All us service people – ministers, priests, rabbis, mullahs, physicians, nurses, case aides, physical therapists, psychotherapists, healers of all type, social workers, lawyers, businessmen, accountants, plumbers, butchers, street cleaners – on and on.
Aren’t we really here to serve one another? Isn’t that what we really do anyway..….serve! Serve our parents, sibs and relatives, our friends, our colleagues, our supervisors, our companies, our clients, our country, our God… And isn’t there “…not enough love to go around…” And isn’t that the answer to our most heart-felt desires and dreams? To live in a world of love, true love.
“There is but one duty, to learn how to love. There is but one happiness, to know how to love.” (Teilhard de Chardin)
The Path of Heart is just that…
a path to ones heart through and with love.
For information contact Adam at JAMilgram@educationforbeing.com
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