Love Is an Action Word

大學時代，有機會接觸 Leo Buscaglia 演講集：愛，生活與學習的原文。

雖然是演講的文字版，但是在閱讀其強有力，充滿生命與活力的演講中，感受的

不僅是他對生命的熱愛，也體會  ：愛  是 動詞，而非抽象名詞的深意。

有幾段非常發人深省的話語：

What is essential is invisible...

Love and you learn to love..

Forgive and you are forgiven...

我常節錄下來作為英文教學的教材，除了示範演講的技巧以外，也

和孩子們分享，我受益很深的幾個關鍵理念；

更重要的是希望孩子們，能體會Leo的真心，能從閱讀，閱聽其演講，

感受生命的力量。

近幾年來3C產品的進步與網路的發達，各式交友平台充斥。

人與人連結密切，可是卻總感覺少了一點點的什麼，

甚至反而疏離。

這樣的時代，重新聽Leo Buscaglia的現場演講，真的有不少的提醒與

感動。

以下有幾段You Tube與大家分享；

Born for Love with Leo Buscaglia part 1 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQP8txmDD8

Leonardo Buscaglia - Only you can make the difference 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwaKu0U_hqk

Leo Buscaglia - The Art of Being Fully Human (1 of 4)  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmfWSQspSo4

 Leo Buscaglia - What is Essential is Invisible to the Eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DRpZ1Ac0s

Leo Buscaglia - Healing Yourself and Others through Forgiveness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRsg7o1L11M

Leo Buscaglia - We Tend to Lack Deep Connections to Others 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umCkjxjNTU

有關 Leonardo Buscaglia 的資訊

DR Leonardo Buscaglia's - Only you can make the difference.

His talk with Ford Motor Company's Sales men and woman.

Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia Ph.D. (31 March 1924 -- 12 June 1998), also known as "Dr Love," was an author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.

Felice Leonardo Buscaglia was born in Los Angeles, CA on March 31, 1924 into a family of Italian immigrants.He spent his early childhood in Aosta, Italy, before going back to the United States for education.He was a graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles). After Navy service in World War II, Buscaglia entered the University of Southern California, where he earned three degrees (BA 1950; MA 1954; PhD 1963) before eventually joining the faculty. Upon retirement, Buscaglia was named Professor at Large, one of only two such designations on campus at that time.

He gained fame on the USC campus through his non-credit course titled "Love 1A," which became the basis for his first book, titled simply LOVE. His dynamic speaking style was discovered by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and his televised lectures earned great popularity in the 1980s. At one point his talks, always shown during fund raising periods, were the top earners of all PBS programs. This national exposure, coupled with the heartfelt storytelling style of his books, helped make all of his titles national Best Sellers; five were once on the New York Times Best Sellers List simultaneously.

While teaching at USC, Buscaglia was moved by a student's suicide to contemplate human disconnectedness and the meaning of life, and began a non-credit class he called Love 1A. His book and numerous recorded and televised lectures, some of which became available through PBS, became extremely well received.

Buscaglia died of a heart attack on June 12, 1998 at his home in Glenbrook, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe. He was 74.