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Warrior Work
Week 49
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The Tao of Love
By Peter Hill
The three things that make a human being complete are knowledge, power and love. The merging of those three promote a harmony
within us that is physical, mental and emotional and it radiates through all of our actions and words. Although love is part of the pictogram
for power and is symbolized by the heart, we need a clearer picture of exactly what love is to really g.e.t. i.t. together.
Love. I love you! You love me? You love me! I love that!
The word love conjures up thousands of pictures and scenarios within us based on the situations we encounter and what we are
perceiving the “truth” within the situations to be. Those pictures are colored by the emotions that we create (interpret) within the picture or
believe others (interpret) to be creating within us. The emotions then direct us to say and do things we often regret unless we are clear on
our intent and goals and what we want to create.
All major world religions have LOVE as their primary goal and yet they cannot get along with each other because they cannot get past
their traditions, rituals and “forms” that their religion takes on. The Greeks had five different words for love expressing various energetic
relationships.
1. Homoeous. Like attracts like, “birds of a feather flock together” so to speak.
2. Epithymia. Lust, the kind that possesses, controls and uses. It is greedy, jealous and vain.
3. Philia, discriminating choices, good investments - philosophy - the love of wisdom. You are my friend but if, when it is inconvenient
or whatever I choose or reason to be unwise for me then I will get rid of your friendship. Or your actions are not acceptable to me and thus
they divorce you from my friendship.
4. Agape - the love of family. Early Christians picked up on this one because “we are all brothers and sisters in Christ”. No matter
what your brother or sister does to you they are still your brother or sister and you have to work through that relationship because
whatever you do to the least of them you do to Christ. “Blood is thicker than water”. Within this love of family, there are 5 love languages
and you can use agape as an acronym to remember them. In serving others it is important to know what makes the others in your life feel
loved and to know what makes you feel loved and be able to communicate that.
AGAPE
Affirmations
Gifts
Affection
Presence
Enthusiastic Service
5. Eros - the force that causes the evolution of the soul. This love starts as physical attraction and evolves to where the person
becomes more or less attractive as we move past their form and into who they are as a human being. It then evolves to concepts like
justice and beauty and “the good” until we can look past the form of people and "see" who they are energetically.
We have one word in our language to try to capture all those different relationships and then we wonder why the word creates so
much conflict when often we have no clear picture of our intent when we say it or what others intentions are when they say it. We just
assume and presume and hope that we are on the same channel and then we blame them or beat ourselves up when
misunderstandings, failed expectations and conflicts arise.
So with all that in mind the pictogram for love is really the foundation of the g.e.t.i.t. concepts and it will help you look into the heart’s of
others and see what they are moving from; power to control, pleasure, avoidance of responsibility or love.
The pictogram is very simple. To love is to serve. A person is standing sideways looking up or out at the vastness around them. With
their knowledge and power they reach out in service to others on various levels helping them to build their knowledge, power and inner
harmony so they in turn will be able to serve others more fully as well. The stronger our knowledge and power is, the better will be our
ability to serve. As our knowledge or power wanes, our ability to serve others wanes as well. If we only build knowledge and power then
we will use our knowledge to justify our power over others. If we build our power and love we will take care of others but they will come to
resent us because they are dependent upon us and need their own sense of autonomy. If we build our knowledge and love, we will see
what needs to be done to serve others but will not have the power to move forward or create it in the world. Building all three in balance
results in true harmony.
People like Mother Theresa exemplify this pictogram. She had the power to stretch out her arms and open wide her heart to the
“poorest of the poor” as she called them because they were unloved and unwanted. She could look past their diseases, poverty and
forms that repelled and revolted the average person. She used her knowledge and power to serve them and her intent manifested itself in
many ways ranging from simple shelters to hospitals, from simple gestures of affection and kindness to large groups coming together for
common goals. Her love rippled out into all corners of the world and challenged those it touched with it’s softness and openness, it’s
sharpness and clarity, it’s emptiness and lack of personal attachments. She was a small fragile woman and her example, her truth
speaks very loudly.
How strong is your intent to love those around you? How effective is your love? It’s easy to see with all the pain, frustration, anger and
conflict around us why we need to love ourselves and continue to build our knowledge, power and inner harmony so we can stand under
the axes that press down on us and others daily, move smoothly through the chaos around us and use the situations we encounter daily to
build our inner and outer skills and strengthen the warrior within us.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is:
What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King
5 Languages of Love:
A- ffirmations
G- ifts
A- ffection
P- resence
E- nthusiastic Service
By Peter Hill, Copyright 2004
www.getittogether.net
www.worldtaichi.com
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Week 49
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The Tao of Love
By Peter Hill
The three things that make a human being complete are knowledge, power and love. The merging of those three promote a harmony
within us that is physical, mental and emotional and it radiates through all of our actions and words. Although love is part of the pictogram
for power and is symbolized by the heart, we need a clearer picture of exactly what love is to really g.e.t. i.t. together.
Love. I love you! You love me? You love me! I love that!
The word love conjures up thousands of pictures and scenarios within us based on the situations we encounter and what we are
perceiving the “truth” within the situations to be. Those pictures are colored by the emotions that we create (interpret) within the picture or
believe others (interpret) to be creating within us. The emotions then direct us to say and do things we often regret unless we are clear on
our intent and goals and what we want to create.
All major world religions have LOVE as their primary goal and yet they cannot get along with each other because they cannot get past
their traditions, rituals and “forms” that their religion takes on. The Greeks had five different words for love expressing various energetic
relationships.
1. Homoeous. Like attracts like, “birds of a feather flock together” so to speak.
2. Epithymia. Lust, the kind that possesses, controls and uses. It is greedy, jealous and vain.
3. Philia, discriminating choices, good investments - philosophy - the love of wisdom. You are my friend but if, when it is inconvenient
or whatever I choose or reason to be unwise for me then I will get rid of your friendship. Or your actions are not acceptable to me and thus
they divorce you from my friendship.
4. Agape - the love of family. Early Christians picked up on this one because “we are all brothers and sisters in Christ”. No matter
what your brother or sister does to you they are still your brother or sister and you have to work through that relationship because
whatever you do to the least of them you do to Christ. “Blood is thicker than water”. Within this love of family, there are 5 love languages
and you can use agape as an acronym to remember them. In serving others it is important to know what makes the others in your life feel
loved and to know what makes you feel loved and be able to communicate that.
AGAPE
Affirmations
Gifts
Affection
Presence
Enthusiastic Service
5. Eros - the force that causes the evolution of the soul. This love starts as physical attraction and evolves to where the person
becomes more or less attractive as we move past their form and into who they are as a human being. It then evolves to concepts like
justice and beauty and “the good” until we can look past the form of people and "see" who they are energetically.
We have one word in our language to try to capture all those different relationships and then we wonder why the word creates so
much conflict when often we have no clear picture of our intent when we say it or what others intentions are when they say it. We just
assume and presume and hope that we are on the same channel and then we blame them or beat ourselves up when
misunderstandings, failed expectations and conflicts arise.
So with all that in mind the pictogram for love is really the foundation of the g.e.t.i.t. concepts and it will help you look into the heart’s of
others and see what they are moving from; power to control, pleasure, avoidance of responsibility or love.
The pictogram is very simple. To love is to serve. A person is standing sideways looking up or out at the vastness around them. With
their knowledge and power they reach out in service to others on various levels helping them to build their knowledge, power and inner
harmony so they in turn will be able to serve others more fully as well. The stronger our knowledge and power is, the better will be our
ability to serve. As our knowledge or power wanes, our ability to serve others wanes as well. If we only build knowledge and power then
we will use our knowledge to justify our power over others. If we build our power and love we will take care of others but they will come to
resent us because they are dependent upon us and need their own sense of autonomy. If we build our knowledge and love, we will see
what needs to be done to serve others but will not have the power to move forward or create it in the world. Building all three in balance
results in true harmony.
People like Mother Theresa exemplify this pictogram. She had the power to stretch out her arms and open wide her heart to the
“poorest of the poor” as she called them because they were unloved and unwanted. She could look past their diseases, poverty and
forms that repelled and revolted the average person. She used her knowledge and power to serve them and her intent manifested itself in
many ways ranging from simple shelters to hospitals, from simple gestures of affection and kindness to large groups coming together for
common goals. Her love rippled out into all corners of the world and challenged those it touched with it’s softness and openness, it’s
sharpness and clarity, it’s emptiness and lack of personal attachments. She was a small fragile woman and her example, her truth
speaks very loudly.
How strong is your intent to love those around you? How effective is your love? It’s easy to see with all the pain, frustration, anger and
conflict around us why we need to love ourselves and continue to build our knowledge, power and inner harmony so we can stand under
the axes that press down on us and others daily, move smoothly through the chaos around us and use the situations we encounter daily to
build our inner and outer skills and strengthen the warrior within us.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is:
What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King
5 Languages of Love:
A- ffirmations
G- ifts
A- ffection
P- resence
E- nthusiastic Service
By Peter Hill, Copyright 2004
www.getittogether.net
www.worldtaichi.com
Warrior Week Home >>