The seven criteria/intuitions below demarcate the creative field of House of the beloved. All our initiatives are permeated by these ideas.

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Dare to think and sense

 

“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

- John F. Kennedy

 

• Autonomous thinking and sensing (don’t abdicate your authority)

• Systematic and methodical to avoid thinking/sensing biases

• With epistemological awareness (aware of power structures and corresponding legitimation criteria, including first and third person perspectives, i.e. knowledge through the body, in connection, through the imaginal, …)

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House of the beloved lives where eastern and western enlightenment overlap: we combine clear, sharp, systematic thinking with deep, embodied, intuitive sensing to liberate ourselves from ignorance and confusion.

 

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Choose radical alignment

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"What I am, is good enough, if I would only be it openly."

- Carl Rogers

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House of the beloved invites us to radically embody what we hold to be true. We value congruence between what we sense, think, believe, say, do, and who we are. 

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Know yourself

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“If something bothers you, you reversed things. The problem is not there, the problem is here.”

- Eric Baret

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By owning our experiences and doing our personal work, we free the world from our projections. The practices we do help us in becoming aware of our personal processes that limit what we can think and sense, and how we limit others in their thinking and sensing.

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Be different together

 

• we deeply connect by expressing our own way of being human

• we're extending ourselves to support our own and another's existential development

• Radically owned honesty: we reveal with radical honesty what is alive in us, while taking ownership of our experience (what makes it difficult to be with what is?)

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Orient towards the ultimate

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"Let yourself be silently drawn to what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

- Rumi

 

House of the beloved supports us in seeking and embodying the ultimate -anything you consider sacred or valuable, i.e., the beloved, GxD, the unknown, the transcendent, the silence with many names, justice, etc.-. One of our research question is: how can we worship and pray, without regressing to infantile thinking and without abdicating our autonomy?

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Follow beauty

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"Follow beauty. It cannot be objectified. Look profoundly at what is beauty, and you will discover that it is what has never changed in you."​

- Jean Klein

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By making space for beauty and uselessness at the centre of our lives, our interactions and everything we produce become an act of rebellion against the oppressive and relentless instrumentalisation of neoliberalism and capitalism.

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Presence as rebellion

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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

- Camus

 

At House of the beloved, we propose a radically engaged existential development. How can we act with full passion to deconstruct systems of oppression as a practice of personal liberation, rather than being swept up in the rapture of emotion or attachment to a particular outcome?