How to Love Everyone and Everything: Starting With a Stone
By Peter Harris
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We assume we know what love is, and that we just 'need more of it in the world', but we have huge emotional and mental obstacles to actually attempting to be 'more loving' ourselves. Here are 7 things love ISN'T, and the one thing it IS - and it's probably not what you think. Once we're clear on what love is, we can be much more relaxed about practicing it in real life - starting with a stone...
This book examines love from a logical and process point of view, and looks also at the psychology and philosophy of it. There is some discussion and critique of religious assumptions about love, too.
Peter Harris
I joined GRID-Arendal as Managing Director in 2014. I am a native of the USA, citizen of Australia and resident of Norway; I describe myself as a “professional foreigner. I am a graduate of the University of Washington (Seattle USA), completed a PhD at the University of Wales (Swansea UK), married an Australian and have 3 children. I have worked in the field of marine geology and science management for over 30 years and published over 100 scientific papers. I taught marine geology at the University of Sydney and conducted research on UK estuaries, the Great Barrier Reef, the Fly River Delta (Papua New Guinea) and Antarctica. I worked for 20 years for Australia’s national geoscience agency as a scientist and manager. In 2009 I was appointed a member of the group of experts for the United Nations World Ocean Assessment. Apart from managing all of GRID-Arendal’s amazing activities, my interests include new methods for the conduct of environmental assessments (the expert elicitation method) and the use of multivariate statistics and geomorphology to provide tools to manage the global ocean environment. I also enjoy sailing and playing the bagpipes.
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How to Love Everyone and Everything - Peter Harris
How to
Love
Everyone
and
Everything
- starting with a stone
by Peter Harris
Published by Eutopia Press
Smashwords edition
11th January 2016
First uploaded 31 12 15
‘And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.’
– Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
Contents
Introduction – What love is and isn’t
WHAT LOVE IS
How to Love a Stone
The power of Gratitude to awaken love
The need for meditation and/or prayer
How to Love Everyone
Widening the Circle of Love
Non-random Acts of Love -Resources
Things to watch for after you start feeling love
Conflict of Interest
A final exercise: Loving the Author
Introduction – What love is and isn’t
It is not an easy thing to get down to love, to really want to love everyone. Since you are reading this, the hardest part is hopefully already done – by you. Congratulations!
Now, the tricky part is to lose the old habits of thought that assume that love is something that it’s not. Love is such an important thing that everyone has a received version of what it is and a lot of ‘shoulds’ connected to it. This puts us off even going there. This is a pity, well no, a huge tragedy. Not to even mention the tragedy of the English language having only one word for romantic -erotic love and love in the general, all-embracing, sensuous and natural yet not narrowly erotic sense in which I use