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A Contextual Essay Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Diploma Program and Master’s Degree in Process Work, Process Work Institute, Portland, OR, 2010
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http://www.processwork.org/files/Finalprojects/Peikrishvili_A_2010.pdf
Introduction
This is a love story. A love story about loving another man, about loving the world, and being loved in return. About loving myself. At least, this is the part of the mystery I have gleaned so far. I hear Nat King Cole singing, “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved back in return.”
I start this contextual essay here, because what I’ve just written reflects the deepest intention of my project, of the performance, and this essay that accompanies it: to love myself unabashedly–and fully. For me, self-love has been an ongoing mythic task and a challenge that has, at times, felt impossible to achieve. It is a process, a discipline–a spiritual warriorship– social action, a feeling skill, , a way of being, acting, and relating to my own wholeness, to the wholeness of others and, finally, also a way of relating to the world and the challenges it holds.
Introduction
This is a love story. A love story about loving another man, about loving the world, and being loved in return. About loving myself. At least, this is the part of the mystery I have gleaned so far. I hear Nat King Cole singing, “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved back in return.”
I start this contextual essay here, because what I’ve just written reflects the deepest intention of my project, of the performance, and this essay that accompanies it: to love myself unabashedly–and fully. For me, self-love has been an ongoing mythic task and a challenge that has, at times, felt impossible to achieve. It is a process, a discipline–a spiritual warriorship– social action, a feeling skill, , a way of being, acting, and relating to my own wholeness, to the wholeness of others and, finally, also a way of relating to the world and the challenges it holds.