What Then Is Love?

SPIRITUALITY FOR EVERYDAY LIVING

WHAT THEN IS LOVE?

Clarendon St. Spirituality Center
Clarendon St, Dublin 2
Mondays 7.00pm -9.00pm
Monday 7th April – Monday 12th May 2008
€100.00

If, according to Teilhard de Chardin, love is the

“most universal, the most tremendous, the most mysterious of the cosmic forces”

why on earth is it so difficult?

SPIRITUALITY FOR EVERYDAY LIVING

Throughout the ages poets, and mystics, spiritual leaders and philosophers have sought to understand love and see how it connects us to human freedom, joy, suffering, and hope.

This course will explore different aspects of love and examine whether basic and universal laws direct its flow. How can love be part of the bigger picture? Can I give love without getting hurt? What do I mean by receiving love? What do I mean when I say I love you?

This course will combine discursive and private reflections to explore love’s dimensions.

The course hopes to offer participants an overview of human and mystical love. It will present love as the ultimate need and desire of all human beings, and allow participants explore a spiritual, philosophical and poetic context for human love.

Topics include: Self love, Filial love, Erotic love, Agape love. Beauty, and Mystical union.

ALL ARE MOST WELCOME
To book please contact me at Email:Christine Clear

or Tel:087 783 7421

SPIRITUALITY FOR EVERYDAY LIVING

WHAT IS MYSTICISM?

Clarendon St. Spirituality Center.
Tuedays 7.00pm -9.00pm.
Tuesday 8th April – Tuesday 13th May 2008
€100.00

Mysticism is the spiritual awareness of being intimately united to God. It is the experiential knowledge that in one way or another, everything is interconnected, that all things have a single source.

In a mystical, transcending or peak experience a deeper level of reality rises to consciousness. Throughout all cultures and eras, there have been many who have glimpsed the enormity and subsequent power of the universe.

Love is often the adjective which describes the awesome version of reality. Sustained by this love, mystics classically refer to the One-ing with all. This experience is frequently described as the state of being in love.

This course will explore Mystical love as experienced by Christian, Sufi, Hebrew, Hindu, Shamanic, mystics.