Tag: love

Sevdalinka

I watched some Serbian love songs at Mosman Art Gallery last week and it warmed my heart.

There were about 50 people in audience and two main musicians and a choir were working together to create such moving music.

There was so much long lost love, unrequited love and imaginative longing in the lyrics there was much to sustain us on the road of romance.

The music speaks for itself. There was a sense of awe about each performer and to top it off they ended the performance with words celebrating the beauty of valuing humanity in the world and of what each person can bring in their humanness and dignity to the table of life.

‘Teilhard De Chardin On Love: Evolving Human Relationships’ (2017), by Louis M. Savary & Patricia H. Berne, forward by Ilia Delio.

Teilhard (1881-1955) was a French geologist who was also a Jesuit priest. This book about his writings on love is by a married couple (theologian Savary & psychologist Berne) who discussed in this book such ideas as:

“Divine love is the energy that brought the universe into being and binds it together. Human love is the energy that drives whatever we do to keep ourselves and our world growing in unity and peace” (Savary & Berne, 2017, p.3).

A book on loving that is pure and theologically inspired makes me feel positive and more constructive in my interactions of the everyday kind. Teilhard De Chardin’s being a scientist meant that I could see the analytical and objective in what he had to say and it was easier to digest the concepts which were clear and simple and very relevant to our lives today. I now seek out related literature about Teilhard de Chardin and his impact on the world.