Love and Awakening

by Welwood, John

• ISBN13: 9780060927974
• ISBN10: 0060927976
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-04
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Unlike other guides that focus on how to make relationships work, this groundbreaking book teaches couples how their relationships can make their lives work. Combining the practical advice of Harville Hendrix with the spiritual guidance of Thomas Moore, it shows couples how their relationships can help them discover their sacred selves in such chapters as "The Power of Truth-Telling", "The Inner Marriage", "Men In Relationship" and "Soulwork and Sacred Combat". Along the way, it provides a wealth of practical guidance on how to deal with difficult problems and includes lively dialogues from Welwood's workshops that dynamically illustrate his core ideas.Men and women are searching for deeper meaning and purpose in their everyday lives and relationships. Love and Awakening fills this need. It is a book couples will want to read together.

Table of Contents

Introduction
We Need a New Vision	p. 1
Love and Awakening	p. 9
Dialogue: Being on the Edge	p. 22
Up Against the Walls	p. 31
Dialogue: Recognizing Unconscious Setups	p. 43
Soulwork and Sacred Combat	p. 49
Overcoming the Enemy	p. 63
Dialogue: Becoming Responsible for Our Own Experience	p. 76
Coemergent Realities	p. 95
Dialogue: Working with Fourfold Truth	p. 106
Chaos and New Birth	p. 113
Lead into Gold	p. 123
The Power of Truth-Telling	p. 131
Dialogue: No-Fault Listening: Speaking and Hearing the Truth	p. 143
The Inner Marriage	p. 161
Dialogue: Relationship as an Outer Mirror of the Inner Marriage	p. 171
Men in Relationship	p. 181
Dialogue: Men Relating to Women	p. 200
Suchness and Magic	p. 219
Disappointment, Devotion, and Growing Up	p. 225
The Broken-Hearted Warrior and the Renewal of the World	p. 233
Acknowledgments	p. 241
Notes	p. 243
Further Readings	p. 254
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