{"id":18125,"date":"2019-06-21T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18125"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:55:24","slug":"the-heart-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18125","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conscious Love<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/the-heart-of-the-universe-2019-06-21\/\"><strong>The Heart of the Universe<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<strong>Friday, June 21, 2019<\/strong><br>\n<strong><em>Summer Solstice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/de_iA6uHpEw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>John Welwood (1943\u20132019) was an American clinical psychologist known for integrating Eastern and Western psychology and spirituality. In his books <\/em>Love and Awakening <em>and <\/em>Journey of the Heart,<em> he wrote about the lifelong challenge and gift of conscious, committed love, drawing insights from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881\u20131955):<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the bad news is that we can know another, and be known, only as deeply as we know ourselves\u2014and coming to know ourselves can be a long and arduous journey\u2014the good news is that love helps and inspires us to develop this deeper self-knowledge. . . . For this reason, relationships can help us face and understand ourselves more rapidly and profoundly than any other aspect of worldly life. Seen in this light, love becomes a path of <em>awakening\u2014<\/em>rousing us from the sleep of old, unconscious patterns into the freshness and immediacy of living more fully in the present, in accord with who we really are.<em> This <\/em>is the source of a deeper kind of happiness, which goes far beyond pleasure and comfort, and the only real basis for healthy and satisfying relationships. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its final outreach, conscious love leads two lovers beyond themselves toward a greater connectedness with the whole of life. Indeed, two people\u2019s love will have no room to grow unless it develops this larger focus beyond themselves. The larger arc of a couple\u2019s love reaches out toward a feeling of kinship with all of life, what Teilhard de Chardin calls \u201ca love of the universe.\u201d Only in this way can love, as he puts it, \u201cdevelop in boundless light and power.\u201d [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the path of love expands in ever-widening circles. It begins at home\u2014by first finding our seat, making friends with ourselves, and discovering the intrinsic richness of our being, underneath all our ego-centered confusion and delusion. As we come to appreciate this basic wholesomeness within us, we find that we have more to give to an intimate partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, as a [couple] become[s] devoted to the growth of awareness and spirit in each other, they will naturally want to share their love with others. The new qualities they give birth to\u2014generosity, courage, compassion, wisdom\u2014can extend beyond the circle of their own relationship. These qualities are a couple\u2019s \u201cspiritual child\u201d\u2014what their coming together gives to the world. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, a couple\u2019s love can expand still further, as Teilhard suggests. The more deeply and passionately two people love each other, the more concern they will feel for the state of the world in which they live. They will feel their connection with the earth and a dedication to care for this world. . . . Radiating out to the whole of creation is the farthest reach of love and its fullest expression, which grounds and enriches the life of the couple. This is the great love and the great way, which leads to the heart of the universe. [3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conscious Love The Heart of the Universe Friday, June 21, 2019 Summer Solstice John Welwood (1943\u20132019) was an American clinical psychologist known for integrating Eastern and Western psychology and spirituality. In his books Love and Awakening and Journey of the Heart, he wrote about the lifelong challenge and gift of conscious, committed love, drawing insights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18126,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125\/revisions\/18126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}