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Living Values Activities Books 
This series offers a variety of experiential activities for teachers and parents

Living Values Education (LVE) is a values education programme. It offers teachers and facilitators a variety of experiential values activities and practical methodologies to enable children and young adults to explore and develop 12 key values: Cooperation, Freedom, Happiness, Honesty, Humility, Love, Peace, Respect, Responsibility, Simplicity, Tolerance and Unity. LVE also has special materials for use with parents and caregivers, children affected by war and children affected by earthquakes.

In a previous edition of Living Values e-News, we announced the publication of LVE's Living Values Activities series of books by Health Communications, Inc. In this edition we continue with our focus on the values explored by LVE, excerpting from the books selected ideas and activities on each value. In past editions the focus has been on peace, respect; this edition focuses on love.

Love is the principle which creates and sustains human relations with dignity and depth. Spiritual love takes one into silence, and that silence has the power to unite, guide, and free people. Love is the bedrock for the belief in equality of spirit and personhood. When love is combined with faith, that creates a strong foundation for initiative and action. Love is the catalyst for change, development, and achievement.

From Living Values: A Guidebook  - please click for further excerpts to stimulate thought.

Reflection Points from Living Values Activities for Young Adults, Love Unit 

• In a better world, the natural law is love; and in a better person, the natural nature is loving.
• Universal love holds no boundaries or preferences; love emanates to all.
• The real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them. (Tolstoy)
• Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature. (Albert Einstein)

Think of the people in your life that are most important to you. What qualities do they have? What would the world be like if every person had love for each human being? In the next few days experiment with staying full of love yourself, and giving good wishes to others. What helps you stay in that state? Is there a difference in your relationships?

You can read an excerpt on love from Living Values: A Guidebook to stimulate thought; please click as indicated below for activities on Love for Parents, Children and Young Adults. Young adults may wish to explore a few of the ideas with family or friends while parents may wish to take up some of the activities with their children. And do let us know how you get on or if you've got other experiences or activities you'd like to share!

"May the image of the family be an example to make us nations, the great human family. That is to say, we are members of an organization which knows how to face the difficulties of the moment, to overcome apparent divisions, to surmount antagonisms, because it is led by a force more powerful than any other: the force of love, which in the final analysis is the raison d’?re of the family."

Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali,
Secretary-General of the United Nations, December, 1993