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Overview
The author suggests that an understanding of what love is, and of the forces that hinder and encourage it, can help readers actualize their potential to become genuinely loving persons.Based on his years of counseling experience, Sullivan offers an exploration of what keeps people from loving others. In an approachable style with stories and examples, the author gives a clear anaylsis of what love is and examines different kinds of love. He offers down-to-earth advice on welcoming love.
Editorials
Library Journal
Sullivan, a counselor for religious women, writes with deep sensitivity of the desire for love in various forms--charity, friendship, sexual--and of the enemies of love--egoism, fear, neurotic guilt. He puts equal emphasis on what he calls the friends of love: humility, faith, and reverence. He concludes: ``Everything then depends on my vision . . . by how I interpret things, by the meaning I give them through the filters from my childhood.'' He shows how humility, faith, and reverence enlarge vision, reveal reality, and support awareness of the pervasiveness of divine presence while facilitating the response of appreciation and gratitude. This is a beautiful, meditative book for seminary and public libraries.Book Details
Published
June 1, 1994
Publisher
New York : Paulist Press, c1994.
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780809134663