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Too mystical for my tastes.
Started this book, but quit reading it.
Started this book, but quit reading it.
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Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening
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In this groundbreaking book, the authors of the perennial bestseller Who Dies? demonstrate how to use a relationship as a means for profound inner growth and healing.
"Stephen and Ondrea's work is among the deepest, most healing and heartfelt contributions to modern spiritual life in America." —Jack Kornfield, bestselling author of a Path with Heart
Stephen and Ondrea Levine devoted more than eighteen years to investigating the mind/body relationship, particularly as it relates to the states healing, dying, and grieving. Their work has affected healing and medical practices worldwide. In Embracing the Beloved, the Levines turn their attention to what has been "our most significant spiritual commitment — our own relationship." Their insights and anecdotes will benefit all who are drawn to looking inward, and all who seek a relationship as a path for spiritual renewal and merciful awareness of life.
"Stephen and Ondrea's work is among the deepest, most healing and heartfelt contributions to modern spiritual life in America." —Jack Kornfield, bestselling author of a Path with Heart
Stephen and Ondrea Levine devoted more than eighteen years to investigating the mind/body relationship, particularly as it relates to the states healing, dying, and grieving. Their work has affected healing and medical practices worldwide. In Embracing the Beloved, the Levines turn their attention to what has been "our most significant spiritual commitment — our own relationship." Their insights and anecdotes will benefit all who are drawn to looking inward, and all who seek a relationship as a path for spiritual renewal and merciful awareness of life.
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1994
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320 pages, Paperback
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January 20, 1996 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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9780385425278
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0385425279
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English
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The journey proceeds in its own way at its own pace. This is a very personal account of aspects of that journey as they unfolded for one man. It is almost stream of consciousness in style, not unusual nor unexpected in light of experience; the process itself unfolds in the same way. There were some real gems here for me, especially since I opened this book at a time of spiritual crisis. It certainly offered at points of commonality, reassurance that this is the way for me and its unfolding in me is most certainly well underway. So, I am not so crazy after all and that towards which I have worked for years with dedication and discipline seems to be upon me now. Careful what you wish for!~
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When I first started to read this book I found it pretty hard to relate to; a little too saccharine around the idea of relationships for me. No doubt conditioned by my own experiences, it all just felt like California mamby pamby to me. My sense of disappointment came from my great enjoyment and learning that resulted from all of Levine's work I had read before this one. It surprised me a bit when either, he cut to the chase or something shifted in me to allow me to see that he was addressing directly the core of my current dilemna. The Beloved is that which is in us all, our reconciliation, the ability for forgiveness and to extend mercy to ourselves; the healing of the primary wound IS the basis for all relationship. While ever we remain disconnected to that deeper part of self, we are incapable of relating intimately to any other human being. All is pretense and delusion.
I now stand at that crossroads and here is a signpost pointing the way. As always I find myself humbled by this man and grateful for his efforts towards the enlightenment of all beings, including me!
I now stand at that crossroads and here is a signpost pointing the way. As always I find myself humbled by this man and grateful for his efforts towards the enlightenment of all beings, including me!
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I didn't agree with everything, but it was a good read.
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To understand oneness.
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Great meditations for couples to practice together!
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This is a beautiful book and I found it very useful in considering relationship as a spiritual practice.
For some reason I found it very difficult to get through and had to dip in and out. I think it rather has to be read in a state of softness, openness, and perhaps I’ve not had enough of that in my life? Or maybe it’s just complex stuff that requires time! Either way, I would recommend going in with an expectation of needing time for this, perhaps reading very small sections at a time.
For some reason I found it very difficult to get through and had to dip in and out. I think it rather has to be read in a state of softness, openness, and perhaps I’ve not had enough of that in my life? Or maybe it’s just complex stuff that requires time! Either way, I would recommend going in with an expectation of needing time for this, perhaps reading very small sections at a time.
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