Beka’s Reviews > All About Love: New Visions > Status Update

"M. Scott Peck defines community as the coming together of a group of individuals 'who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together" and to "delight in each other and make others conditions our own."'"

"Living simply makes loving simple.
The choice to live simply necessarily enhances our capacity to love.
It is the way we learn to practice compassion, daily affirming our connection to a world community."

"To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love."

"Greed is rightly considered a "deadly sin" because it erodes the moral values that encourage us to care for the common good.

Greed violates the spirit of connectedness + community that is natural to human survival. It wipes out individual recognition of the needs + concerns of everyone, replacing this awareness with harmful self-centeredness."

"When greedy consumption is the order of the day, dehumanization becomes acceptable. Then, treating people like objects is not only acceptable but is required behavior.

It's the culture of exchange, the tyranny of marketplace values."

"Living by a love ethic we learn to value loyalty + a commitment to sustained bonds over material advancement. While careers + making money remain important agendas, they never take precedence over valuing + nurturing human life + well-being.

I know no one who has embraced a love ethic whose life has not become more joyous + more fulfilling."

"Commitment to a love ethic transforms our lives by offering us a different set of values to live by. In large and small ways, we make choices based on a belief that honesty, openness, + personal integrity need to be expressed in public + private decisions."

"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening."