The Loving and Caring Spirit
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
LOVING AND CARING ARCHETYPE
- Offers loving and caring to others as a gift
- Affirms the presence and importance of the person rather than defining them by roles and labels or categorizing each of us at the expense of our personhood
- Offers space for the sheer lovingness to replace the anger, fear and confusion which often monopolizes the human group
- Recognizes us that personhood, being persons to each other, takes precedence over every other human act
- Offers complete and unalterable acceptance in situations and settings that for the rest of us, defy credulity
Note: You know if a loving and caring spirit lies at your center. No self-research, no guesswork is needed. If it is there, you have heard this spirit’s call in you for a long time.
QUESTIONS TO DETERMINE IF, WHEN, AND WHY
THE LOVING AND CARING SPIRIT SPEAKS TO YOU
- How do you view your fellow human? What is your perspective on the human species?
What has been your experience with your fellow human? - Do you get beyond the anger, the fear, the competitiveness, the loneliness to see the potential of personhood in each of us? Give examples of when this happens.
- Do you transform the other person’s anger or fear into his self-recognition that the sources of those feelings lie within her own make-up, not someone else’s?
- Are you that selfless person for whom the other’s completion is paramount?
- Do you invariably see the potential in the act, the underlying presence in the superficial, the whole in the partial?
- What is the most important to you? Is it the loving and caring of the other in all situations and settings?
