Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart

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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.

A workshop based on this book is also available in audio. For more information, click here.

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ISBN13: 9781590303863
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A noble support for a genuine spiritual path

Review Date: March 17, 2007

Reviewer: William Okin, Ojai, CA United States

Although this book is presented as a book on relationships, it is really about connecting with one's own deepest essence. This will, of course, have a profound effect on all of one's relationships.

This is an essential book for anyone on a genuine spiritual path who seeks to take the leap into the non-conceptual awareness of being. The practices presented here are a tremendous support for meditation and prayer. By bringing the concepts of grievance, longing and absolute love into the realm of the body, the simple exercises in this book, if fully engaged, make the tricky business of opening one's heart easier.

John Welwood has offered the world a tremendous gift. May all beings benefit.

Perfect love, imperfect relationships

Review Date: February 22, 2007

Reviewer: CHEONG SUI HUNN, Singapore

This book will insightful regarding the way the mind works. This book highlight the unawareness of us human beings that it is our habitual thinking patterns and response that is the greatest obstacle in us having fulfilling relationships and happy life.

However, to bring out the gold from this book, one needs to read this book again and again and use it as a personal guide of practice.

I thank the author for his generous sharing and ernest effort in writing this book. He should continue to write. I hope to meet and talk to him one day.

Outstanding

Review Date: March 7, 2006

Reviewer: K. L. Hanson, Dayton, OH USA

Wow, I wish I had read this about 10 years ago. It really got me to think about and see my relationship patterns in a different light. It hit a couple of bones right to the marrow. I recommend it to anyone who has ever struggled with relationship problems, especially ones with themselves. Thanks for this awesome book, John.

Transformative

Review Date: September 4, 2006

Reviewer: Saill White, Petaluma, CA United States

This time Welwood risks labels like "namby pamby" in order to bring home what I suspect he's been suspecting all along. Love is all you need, really.

We're all born, we're all going to die, we all suffer in various ways along the way. How blessed is the child whose world holds her tight with compassion and understanding through hunger and hardship, compared to the child who suffers the pain of judgement, fault-finding and ostracism even in a world of material plenty.

For understanding the biological implications of love a fantastic adjunct to this book are the works about trauma healing by Peter Levine.

John Welwood has a way with words that resonate with the heart

Review Date: March 6, 2006

Reviewer: L. Crandall, Ludlow, Illinois USA

In Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships:Healing the Wound of the Heart, John Welwood eloquently guides the reader to live more consciously, enjoy more peace, and find deeper healing. By illuminating the dynamics of love and relationship, Welwood offered me the possibility of a greater understanding of my part in relationships and helped me discover further insights into opening my heart to myself and others. If life is a journey, Welwood is a gracious guide and this book is a manual that would benefit anyone interested in living their best life.

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