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.

A powerful approach to intimate relationships—as a path of personal and spiritual discovery, whose challenges call forth our deepest strengths and resources.

As men and women find that they can no longer rely on old roles and formulas to get along, intimate relationships call for a new kind of honesty and awareness, a willingness to let go of old patterns and cultivate new capacities.

Journey of the Heart shows how we can rise to this challenge by learning to use whatever difficulties we face in relationships as opportunities to expand our sense of who we are and deepen our capacity to connect with others. This is the path of conscious love.

Can the meditative traditions of Buddhism be integrated with the practice of Western psychology? John Welwood's latest book addresses this question with new comprehensiveness and depth, building on the innovative psychospiritual approach of his six previous books (with total sales of over 300,000 copies). The questions he addresses include:
What can the spiritual methodologies of the East teach us about psychological health?
What issues arise when the recognition of our larger nature challenges our very conception of individual self ?
What new directions become possible when psychological work is undertaken in a spiritual context?
How does Western psychological understanding affect our approach to spirituality?
Welwood's psychology of awakening brings together three major dimensions of human existence: personal, interpersonal, and suprapersonal in one overall framework of understanding and practice.
The book's first section addresses basic questions about the relationship between psychology and contemplative spirituality. The second explores the practical implications of this convergence for psychological health and healing. The third considers the implications for relationship and community.

This powerful collection of essays by such notables as D. H. Lawrence, Robert Bly, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Rainer Maria Rilke focuses on the challenges of love between men and women, addressing the questions and difficulties arising for people in relationships today. Anyone who is, has been, or hopes to be in an intimate relationship with a person of the opposite sex will find this book "must" reading.

The first group of essays deals with the contradictions and possibilities inherent in erotic love, leading to the question posed in the next section: What do men and women really want? The contributors then explore marriage as an ongoing path of personal transformation. That opens into a look at sexuality itself as an especially vivid meeting of two different worlds. The book closes with a group of writings that consider relationship as a vehicle for developing power, wisdom, and inner truth.

Carefully selected, threaded together by Welwood's insightful commentary, the essays presented here approach the challenge of intimacy with bravery and gentleness, inspiring the reader toward becoming a "warrior of the heart."

A handbook to a genuine spiritual life, this book explains that the spiritual path--like any other journey--is filled with detours and obstacles that can be avoided through discernment. The author defines this as a quality of open-eyed awareness and honest perception that can turn challenges into opportunity and lessons into growth. In exploring questions such as "Is enlightenment less about fireworks and more about dismantling illusions? How can spiritual practice be fully integrated into daily life? "and "What's the best way to work with the ego and the shadow?," this manual offers practitioners of any tradition a guide to a more fulfilling spiritual experience. "Un manual para una vida espiritual genuina, este libro explica que la senda espiritual--como cualquier otro viaje--esta llena de desvios y obstaculos que se pueden evitar a traves del discernimiento. La autora define esta cualidad como una claridad de conciencia y una percepcion honesta que puede convertir desafios en oportunidades y lecciones en crecimiento. Respondiendo a cuestiones como "Tiene que ver la iluminacion con una felicidad repentina o mas bien con desmantelar nuestras ilusiones? Como se puede integrar la practica espiritual en la vida diaria? "y "Cual es el mejor modo de trabajar el ego y la sombra?," este libro les ofrece a practicantes de cualquier tradicion una guia para tener una experiencia espiritual mas significativa."

John Welwood explains that the secret to success in love lies in addressing an unacknowledged emotional would that many of us carry, which he calls 'the wound of the heart', a deep-seated belief that we are not in fact worthy of love as we are. This unconcious belief is the root of all relationship problems.

Can a meditative practice assist and promote the healing relationship between psychotherapist and patient? The notable contributors to this practical book draw on a wide range of Eastern and Western disciplines--psychoanalysis, Gestalt, Aikido, and various Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist contemplative traditions--to show that it can. What they propose is a meeting between the Western psychotherapeutic approach--grounded in working with the personal problems and the need to carve out a strong awareness of self--and Eastern tradition, which emphasizes a larger kind of awareness and equanimity as a continuously available source of clarity and health for those who know how to find it. They show that joining psychotherapy with meditation can mutually awaken the hearts of both therapist and client, sparking them both to open more fully.
Jacob Needleman, Erich Fromm, Robin Skynner, Ram Dass, Karl Sperber, Roger Walsh, Chogyam Trungpa, and Thomas Hora are among the contributors.