Seven Levels of Love, 2: The Love Word
Seven Levels of Love, 2: The Love Word

Aviv Shahar with Jeff Vander Clute

May 28, 2021
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This leads me, then, to circle back to ask you about loving intention and all the way to love. So you have used the term, the word love, several times in our conversations, and I was pretty transparent in terms of how I've struggled with that word in the past. And before I elaborate more about my struggle and how I'm working to resolve my struggle and work through it...

If you needed to explain what you mean by this idea that you addressed earlier in the year, when you said “choose love,” and in the way you are talking about now, loving intention - and I know you already grounded love all the way to the left as a wellspring of some sort, which is going to be very much aligned with what I'm going to propose when we talk through the seven expressions, seven layers, or seven levels of love. But where would you ground us when you say, "choose love." You mean what?

So love is good, but what is it still? Yes, there are interactions with people that we might say are loving; there's some notion of caring. If it's compassion it's also likely to be directly alleviating pain, suffering. And so love, it also connotes healing, to me, and I'm sure most people. So because there's like a word-cloud, if you will, a tag cloud that we could say is kind of what we're talking about.

Jeff Vander Clute

Jeff Vander Clute

Jeff Vander Clute

Jeff Vander Clute coaches and consults, teaches, writes, and leads travel journeys.

He is a co-founder of Sourcing The Way, Enlightening Journeys and Expeditions, and The Consciousness of Money. Jeff is also a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and he serves on the board of directors for Alliance for the Earth and Source of Synergy Foundation (previous chair).

Aviv Shahar

Aviv Shahar

Aviv is the Founder of Aviv Consulting, helping leaders unleash strategic innovation, and is the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.