Courses About

Love

Explore posts centred on love in its many forms - compassion, devotion, friendship, service, and selflessness. Learn how spiritual traditions understand love as a path to healing, connection, purpose, and flourishing.

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November 8, 2023

What Is Love? a Deep Dive

In this course we cover love as the most powerful force in the universe. Love manifests across life stages as union overcoming separateness. We draw on Christianity's agape, Islam's brotherhood, Judaism's Torah covenant, Hinduism's duty, Buddhism's compassion, and Harvard's 75-year study: happiness is love.

October 17, 2023

Concept Overview of Love, Learn & Play

In this course we cover love, learning, and play. Love radiates outward from self to cosmos through compassion and interconnectedness, learning creates meaning from chaos and drives human evolution, play sparks innovation and joy. We draw on Erich Fromm, Archbishop Desmond Tutu's ubuntu, Confucian virtue, Buddhist contemplation, the Daodejing, and the flowering lotus as our path to flourishing.

October 17, 2023

How Do You Experience LLP in Life?

In this course we cover the LLP mindset: Love, Learn, and Play expanding outward from self to cosmos. This universal human capacity appears across all faiths and philosophies. We draw on Mother Teresa's expanding circle of compassion, the Dhammapada's interconnected learning, autotelic play as innate human joy, and the principle that LLP manifests in all quotidian activities.

October 15, 2023

Flourishing and the LLP Mindset

In this course we cover flourishing. Our deepest longings are Love, Learn, and Play—ultimate ends that open infinite possibility. We draw on Aristotle's eudaimonia, Socrates' examined life, Stoic and Epicurean philosophy, children's natural engagement, and the universal wisdom found across all religious and philosophical traditions.