{"id":1338,"date":"2012-01-11T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2012-01-11T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:14:59","slug":"world-festival-of-the-heart-%e2%80%94-exploring-the-%e2%80%98power-of-love%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"World Festival of the Heart \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Exploring the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPower of Love\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Festival of the Heart is an event to be held in Melbourne, November 2012; it will seek to explore how we can use ‘heart-power’ to improve the well-being of the world.<\/p>\n

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Sri Chinmoy has a very famous and much quoted aphorism:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [1]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an explanation of this, Sri Chinmoy elaborated by saying that here \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGod\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 means universality.<\/p>\n

He said that when we use the power of love, individuality immediately disappears and is replaced by universality or a positive feeling of oneness; however when we use the love of power, we feel separate and superior, feelings that very often lead to destruction.<\/p>\n

Using this deeply insightful and meaningful ideal to build upon, the World Festival of the Heart, <\/em><\/strong>an event to be staged in Melbourne, Australia in November this year, was born. The Festival is a gathering of luminaries across the fields of spirituality, science and the arts, to celebrate their wisdom and life achievements, and to collectively explore how we can use \u00e2\u20ac\u0153heart-power\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to improve the fundamental wellbeing of all life on our planet.<\/p>\n

Our world is standing on the brink of a new era and all around us we are witnessing a thrilling convergence of these three amazing fields of endeavour. Festival organisers are planning a three-day program that will explore this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153convergence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the possibilities it holds to change our lives in unimaginable ways.<\/p>\n

Festival organisers are creating a program full of activities: workshops, music, dialogue, devotions, performance, concerts, an expo and a grand forum. The program is designed for anyone who has a passion for life, for the world and our future. Themes for Festival participants to explore will include:<\/p>\n