Organizing With Love

3/23/2024

Love is the foundation of all thriving and deepening relationships. When we join our hearts, heads and hands together our life thrives and flourishes interpersonally and interpersonally, in our families, communities and in organizations. As the author-Adrienne Maree Brown says," When we are engaged in acts of love, we humans are our best and most resilient." Love is the core foundation of all relationships not only to survive but also to thrive. What I am saying is based on my personal experiences at all stages of relationships in my families, friends, in my intimate relationships, societal and professional relationships. I have lived and grown in extended families all my life. I learnt the art of relating to differences by listening to each other with open ears, open mind and open heart. I have learnt to let go of my irrational, inflexible and rigid opinions and ideas and to be fluid and flexible and appreciative of ideas and opinions of other members of the family. I also learnt how to appreciate somebody's opinions and ideas which would be better than mine. Such a stance helped me grow mentally, emotionally, relationally and spiritually.
From my experiences I have learned how to grow deeper in my relationships. The core qualities of growing in my realtionships are unconditional love, empathic mind, compassionate heart, nonviolent communication, telling the truth and accepting my mistakes, forgiveness, gratefulness, and patience. It takes time and effort and mindfulness to cultivate deeper and fulfiling realtionships. It is wise to take time and be patient to enjoy the gifts of such deeper relationships. May we all have such precious gifts to flourish and deepen our relationships!
Namaste

3 Comments

Therese M Griffin link

3/23/2024 02:22:05 pm

Over the years, I have many family/families. Family by Birth, my Polish Mother Kay and Polish Landlady Agnes both were sisters and owned a bar; Libby's Meatpacking Factory both Union and Management were a community within a community; Recovery through mentors and members, Dr JP's meditation zoom circle, etc.

I related with Adrienne Maree Brown quote: "A mushroom is a toxin-transformer, a dandelion is a community of healers waiting to spread… What are we as humans, what is our function in the universe?"

I'm sending Ramya a photo by Daniel Bovino: Dandelion coming alive through Death of Leaves. I have permission to use his photos in my next book # 4. How do we heal through walking life to understand and forgive others by viewing their brokenness. Not to accept their misbehaviors but to understand their behaviors may come brokenness of violence, abandonment, PTSD, etc. As the dandelion found new life through old behaviors of dying leaves. We may find our healing through empathy.

Elaine Gotfryd Noonan

3/23/2024 02:52:27 pm

I agree and love what Dr. Dave' wrote....many families over a lifetime. I have learned over the years with Dr. Dave',Jesus, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tagore, Picasso, Mozart, my children is that Love Lenses are what I choose to live life looking through and Empathetic Ears to listen with. This shifts every moment in life into a positive, mindful moment.

Meanwhile, keep dancing:)))

Debbie Podwika

3/26/2024 04:38:43 pm

I agree with the original post overall. I wish people would always pause for a moment before they spoke and say, "this is a person I love, am I about to communicate to them through love?" And especially for those we love the most. We choose to hold their heart in our hand and protect it. I also agree that if CEOs, political people, etc. also viewed things and made decisions through love the world would be a much better place. I love her discussion on mushrooms and dandelions. My Sustainability Book Club read a great book on Fungi.

https://greenbkclub.blogspot.com/2021/05/bk-38-aug-3-2021-entangled-life-how.html

I have to say I did not really agree with this part...

"We would organize with the perspective that there is wisdom and experience and amazing story in the communities we love, and instead of starting up new ideas/organizations all the time, we would want to listen, support, collaborate, merge, and grow through fusion, not competition."

I'd like some clarification from her or an example. I don't think there is anything wrong with new ideas/organizations. They do not all compete and can be collaborative and through love.

Dr. Dave I agree with your comments, especially your second paragraph on core qualities. I will also add I have learned through my life to not make assumptions and ask questions first. I also try not to label people as something after they have expressed their views in cases where I may very much disagree with their views. I try to figure out why they may feel the way they do. Now this brings up another point. We can view people or things with a loving heart and with those core qualities but still have different views and thus different ideas of how to proceed with decisions. I'd very much like to think Love will solve everything, but I'm still not sure it will. For example, I can see people saying, I love you but I disagree with your political views. Someone may say, I do this with love, but it may not be something you want from them or you may not view it as love. This gets to the idea of does everyone have different definitions of love? Yes. And this I think is influenced by gender, age, culture etc. It is also something that is taught to us as we grow up. Now, Pure love (God's Love), I believe is only one definition, but I don't think everyone fully understands it. I won't even claim to understand it fully. I do believe it is something, hopefully, we learn more & more about throughout our lives, but some just never understand it even if they live a long life.

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