![]() ![]() His main focus are the living energies in the body, the feelings and they are felt in their dynamic aliveness, moment to moment. ![]() Meeting, accepting, sharing, letting in and letting through. He models with great sensitivity and delicacy how to bring people into peaceful contact with need energies, with the felt-senses in their bodies. Stephen’s work seems to come from a deep trust, inner intuition and spaciousness. Robert told me he found out about Steve, after Robert had already found his own way to increase connection with human spirituality, inner and outer – so he was not influenced by Steve – but nourished. Robert Gonzales appreciated Stephen’s work, he must have seemed like a colleage to him. Read here the obituary for Stephen Schwartz by Sy Safransky.Ĭontinuation – Robert Gonzales and the work of living compassion I second this opinion and happily present samples of his dialogues here:ġ – Compassionate Self-Care (introduction)Ģ – The space we fall into (Dale and Steve)ģ – So there you are with yourself (Linda and Steve) ![]() One of Stephen’s notable acheievements in what he calls “angelic dialogues” is to have adapted the practice of presence to the “interactive space.”.I have come to understand that Stephen’s work represents a profound contribution to our understanding of what it means to be a human being and what it means to be truly helpful to another human being.“ Arnold Katz: “ I believe that Stephen’s work represents a unique development in our capacity to enable human awareness and understanding. ![]() It reveals the depth of spiritual experience and compassion that Stephen brought to his work with participants. I present a few excerpts here, along with a reading of an interview he gave near the end of his life, in 1992.Ĭompiled in the last year of Stephen Schwartz’s life, Angelic Dialogues (1993) chronicles dialogues that Stephen had with participants of retreats from around the United States of America. Sy Safransky published three articles about the work of Steve in the online newspaper The Sun, united under the heading “Prayer of the Body”. I wish to include some excerpts from both books soon an this page. I like to see how different people were able to teach and practice compassion. My understanding is that what Steve practiced as Compassi onate Presence aligns closely with Empathy as Marshall Rosenberg, Martin Buber, Thich Nhat Hanh, Carl Rogers and Robert Gonzales and many others understood it. He describes his method in The Compassionate Presence (1988). Some transcripts of recordings of his talks are published in the book Problems Are the Doors Through Which We Walk to Peace (1987). Stephen Schwartz was inspired by A Course in Miracles and held talks at events organized by the Foundation for Inner Peace, where he spoke with no prior concept about spiritual matters. Please contact me if you have stories or information that you might wish to include on this celebration page. I wish to create this page for Steve, to the best of my abilities, to celebrate his contribution and to make it more available to a community of people, to whom his work might be of interest. He also assisted participants in retreats or individual sessions to find peace about those pockets of pain which still linger even after much inner work. He practiced communication-based compassion in the 1980s and 1990s – for self and others – creating inner clarity and consciousness about what is thinking and what is present in the body – reconnecting to life. in education from the State University of New York. in literature from Brandeis Unversity and an M.A. Stephen Robbins Schwartz (1949-1993) was an author, publisher and retreat leader. ![]()
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