March is the month of Pisces, the 12th astrological sign (it’s also my birthday month!).
Pisces is associated with compassion, understanding, oneness and unconditional love. Because it’s the last sign of the zodiac, it’s said that all the signs have been experienced before and therefore Pisces has “been there done that” and can relate and have a greater understanding of the whole.
This month’s podcast is not about astrology or about Pisces, but about what Pisces represents. In this podcast, we’re going to be talking about love. And in order to talk about love, we have to also talk about the barriers we have to love, which as Rumi so beautifully said, “your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
So that’s what we’re going to do.
We’re going to hear some from the honorable Martin Luther King Jr., we’re going to talk about resentment and anger that we hold toward people, we’re going to understand what impact those negative feelings can have on our bodies and our lives, we’re going to unpack and work out these feelings and then we’ll finish off with a quick 3 minute meditation to bring some healing and forgiveness into our lives.
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As promised in this episode:
The YouTube url to MLK’s full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpORe1w-B_c
Here’s the transcript: “I’m still convinced that it is love that makes the world go round. And somehow this kind of love can be a powerful force for social change. I’m not talking about a weak love. I’m not talking about emotional bosh here. I’m not talking about some sentimental quality. I’m not talking about an affectionate response. It would be nonsense to urge oppressed people to love their violent oppressors in an affectionate sense, and I have never advised that. When Jesus said, “Love your enemies,” I’m happy he didn’t say, “Like your enemies.” It’s pretty difficult to like some people. But love is greater than like. Love is understanding creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. Theologians talk about this kind of love with the Greek word agape, which is a sort of overflowing love that seeks nothing in return. And when one develops this, you rise to the position of being able to love the person who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. And I believe that this can be done. Psychiatrists are telling us now that hatred is a dangerous force, not merely for the hated, but also the hater. Many of the strange things that happen in the subconscious, many of the inner conflicts, are rooted in hate. And so they are saying, “Love or perish.” This is why Erich Fromm can write a book entitled The Art of Loving, arguing that love is the supreme unifying force of life. And so it is wonderful to have a method of struggle where it is possible to stand up against segregation, to stand up against colonialism with all of your might, and yet not hate the perpetrators of these unjust systems.
