Public Message:
Statement of Intent
“Love your Neighbor as yourself”
(Leviticus 19:18)
“This is the whole Torha on one leg”
Rabbi Akiva
Spirituality as it applies to NVC
Love, Transformation and Conscious Choice
As a jewish-Israeli child I was taught that this is the moral principle upon which I should measure my behavior as right or wrong. This proverb decorates almost every classroom in Israeli schools, but never in my childhood have I encountered a living model on how to live those words in each moment.
Only when I first encountered Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s work 3 years ago did I get in touch with the depth of meaning that is underlying this one sentence, what was resonating in me as my innate nature and how I want to live in each moment, - as a conscious choice - Equally and unconditionally loving myself and others, no matter what.
For me, this is how spirituality applies to NVC on one leg. Living consciously by transforming habitual life-alienating reactions into conscious responses, responses that prioritize connection to self and other over any particular result sought in the world, responses that are likely to make life more wonderful for everyone. Conscious choices in the service of life.
NVC has contributed to consciousness transformation in how I see and experience reality and it empowered me to reclaim my power by taking on full participation in creating the world I want to live in, a world where separation is transformed into connection, and where scarcity is replaced with full trust in the sufficiency of resources, inside and out, to care for everyone’s well-being.
For the first time in my spiritual quest I have found a consciousness, a language and a practice that provides me with a clear “road map” on how to find my way back to my heart, to myself.
The practice of empathy as an ultimate act of compassion, of unconditional love, has showed me how to reunite with my heart and with other people’s hearts in our shared humanity.
“Love your neighbor as yourself” – is the living experience of being in an empathic space, of being in heaven.
