Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships..., John Welwood
Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships..., John Welwood
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Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships
A Workshop on Healing the Wound of the Heart

Author: John Welwood

Series: Shambhala

Narrator: Stephen Graybill

Unabridged: 6 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/03/2018


Synopsis

While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most--in our intimate relationships. Why, if love is so great and powerful, are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps us from experiencing love's full flowering in our lives.

Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal, core wounding around love that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This wounding shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove--a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. And this shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us.

This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace our humanness and appreciate the imperfections of our relationships as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves.

Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world.

About The Author

As a psychotherapist, teacher, and author, JOHN WELWOOD has been a pioneer in integrating psychological and spiritual work. Welwood has published six books, including the best-selling Journey of the Heart (HarperCollins, 1990), as well as Challenge of the Heart (Shambhala, 1985), and Love and Awakening (HarperCollins, 1996). He is an associate editor of the Journal for Transpersonal Psychology. He leads workshops and trainings in psychospiritual work and conscious relationship throughout the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Judie68 on December 11, 2013

Read this last night...and it floored me. I think is might be one of the most important books I've read in a while. When the student is ready... "All the beauty and horrors of this world arise from the same root: the presence or absence of love. Not feeling loved and then taking that to heart is the......more

Goodreads review by LeeTravelGoddess on November 07, 2019

Wonderful book about exploring the debts of where love and process of obtaining such comes from. It’s quite simple. I enjoyed the simplistic ways in which he broke it down and presented exercises at the end! I’m so happy I chose this book I just don’t know what to do. I’m realizing that I am however......more

Goodreads review by Seb on January 24, 2024

Tenderly written with wisdom and compassion this book is both subtle and humble, but also very exciting in the simple profound truths it reveals about how we love and allow ourselves to feel love inside and outside of relationships. Would recommend to anyone who is on a journey towards more rewarding......more