The following writing shares the practice of Active Love. What is it? How is it different from nonviolence and how is it similar? It shares the foundation it’s built upon, that the law is love, and love is the root of justice. It describes ways it would structurally change our institutions, our families, our workplaces. It offers a tool box for living and working through the law of love, bringing change to domination systems.
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A Change in Operating System
A Foundational Change People have been talking about love and peace for a long time. It’s common to dismiss such talk as simplistic, sentimental idealism. But living according to love is a significantly different life structure from our present social and institutional norms. It requires us to be open to making changes in each of our own lives in order to learn how to live outside of the dominance-based worldview nearly all of us have been steeped in from birth. It includes changing our language, and some of our most basic frameworks upon which we make our decisions. To develop… read more