To Love and Be Loved
by Sam Keen
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To Love and Be Loved is a spirited challenge to a culture obsessed with romance and intimacy but dangerously ignorant of the full range of human love. Like a fresh wind, Sam Keen sweeps away tired self-help nostrums and reams of "bad advice from Dr. Lonelyhearts" to reveal a stunningly new map of love in all its forms. Love is not something we "fall" into, claims Keen, but a complex art combining many skills and talents that take a lifetime to learn fully. At the center of his book are show more sixteen distinct "elements of love": ranging from attention--a precious gift we can bestow on co-worker, friend, child, and spouse alike--to more exclusive gifts like desire and sexuality. Combining stories, poems and quotes with insights from modern psychology and spiritual tradition, Keen brilliantly explores the elements of memory and solitude in love, the importance of both enjoyment and commitment, and how we can cultivate the essential qualities of empathy and compassion. Each piece ends with suggestions for strengthening our daily practice of the element, so that we constantly enlarge our ability to love in all our relationships. The final section of the book is a soaring meditation on the claim that "those who love know God," an invitation to experience our place in the universe through the eyes of love. show lessTags
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Sam Keen, author of twelve books, including Fire in the Belly, served as consulting editor at Psychology Today for many years. He is a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and lives in Sonoma, California. (Bowker Author Biography) Author and educator Sam Keen was educated at the Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University. Keen is a former show more editor of Psychology Today magazine and has held positions at the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Prescott College and the Humanistic Philosophy Institute. Keen's books include Voices and Vision, Your Mythic Journey and Hymns to an Unknown God. He also co-produced the PBS documentary, Faces of the Enemy, which was a 1998 Emmy nominee. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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