Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships

A Workshop on Healing the Wound of the Heart

By: John Welwood

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

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.

Solid

The title says it all. Welwood gives the gift of knowing real love from its imitations.

very interesting book it answered a lot question

Answered a lot of questions I had I strongly recommend this book love it this that book

Changed my view on love

I really appreciated the content of this book. It broadened my view on love. The way it is written is deep, mystical and anchored into daily life top.

Medicine for the soul

I love this book. I would say it had a profound impact on my life, ability to have deeper relationships, and love myself. It brought me great calm when going through big personal events. Now four years later, I am almost done listening to it for a second time. It is a dose of compassion and inspiration I look forward to in the morning on the way to work.

Love Is The Answer

Wonderful teaching. Drawing on the ancient wisdom that cuts across all religious traditions as well as offering modern interpretations, Dr Welwood articulates spiritual practice clearly and from a place of authenticity.