Love course outline

Pure Love • Three forms - eros, philia, agape • Everyone has pure love within their nature

Love worth striving for

• The expression of love through wisdom, attachment or delusion • Appealing to pure love in someone’s nature • Love knows no measure (Thomas a Kempis)

Expanding & strengthening love • Love as the natural in-between • Constancy (Shakespeare Sonnet 116)

Objects of Love

• The object of love: body, mind, heart, essence • The Upanishad and Love

Unity and Duality

• Causes of duality • The idea of other • The desire to control • Limiting the love to a small circle • Meeting everyone freshly, as if for the first time

Love and gratitude

• Gratitude – Marcus Aurelius • The nature of the mind and heart

Harmony

• Natural harmony of heart and mind • Finding harmony in our lives

Love in the words of

• Rumi - the spiritual aspect of love • Mikhail Naimy - You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live

Love and Reason

• The Subtle Realm – Epictetus • Role of reason in sustaining love • What does it mean to uncover our real nature? • If you want to be loved, then love.

Love in daily life

• Wise law and love • Love and work

Love and Knowledge

• Love and knowledge • Wisdom and love