On Loves Path

The road may be long or short with twists and curves. It is traveled with friends and pets and lovers, where the ultimate journey ends up where it needs to be. They say that it is how we get there that makes the trip worthwhile, and not the final destination in itself. In this book we will take a close look at the lives that are affected in a very positive way. Fasten your seatbelts and maybe have a box of tissues ready just in case. Emotions run high as the author will take you through a series of journeys traveled and spent on loves path.

Learn how to successfully negotiate conflicts and deepen our most intimate relationships in this practical and thoughtful guide by an experienced Buddhist teacher, psychotherapist, and couples counselor. A committed relationship, as most people see it today, is a partnership of equals who share values and goals, a team united by love and dedicated to each other’s growth on every level. This contemporary model for coupledom requires real intention and work, and, more often than not, the traditional archetypes of relationships experienced by our parents and grandparents fail us or seem irrelevant. Utilizing the wisdom of her years of personal and professional practice, Young-Eisendrath dismantles our idealized projections about love, while revealing how mindfulness and communication can help us identify and honor the differences with our partners and strengthen our bonds. These practical and time-tested guidelines are rooted in sound understanding of modern psychology and offer concrete ideas and the necessary tools to reinforce and reinvigorate our deepest relationships.

“May Ram Dass’s intimate and heartfelt account inspire others to find their own path of true love, compassion, and joyful service.” —Thich Nhat Hanh, author of The Heart of Buddha’s Teaching Ram Dass’s long-awaited Be Love Now is the transformational teaching of a forty-year journey to the heart. The author of the two-million-copy classic Be Here Now and its influential sequel Still Here, Dass is joined once more by Rameshwar Das—a collaborator from the Love Serve Remember audio recordings—to offer this intimate and inspiring exploration of the human soul. Like Deepak Chopra’s Book of Secrets, the Dalai Lama’s Art of Happiness, and Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Coming to Our Senses, Ram Dass’s Be Love Now will serve as a lodestar for anyone seeking to enhance their spiritual awareness and improve their capacity to serve—and love—the world around them. “Be Love Now, like Be Here Now, is equal parts memoir and manual of meditation. It’s hard to believe the two books are separated by more than thirty years. The writing in Be Love Now is as fresh and charged with insight as the earlier one.” —Los Angeles Times “If the West even approaches enlightenment in the Twenty-first Century, there’s no way to overestimate the role of Ram Dass in making it happen. He planted seeds that turned into a million trees; if and when they blossom, they will exude the fragrance of his teaching forever.” —Marianne Williamson “Be Love Now reveals the true meaning of yoga, the union of the open heart—this is required reading for anyone who follows a path of devotion.” —Daniel Goleman, New York Times–bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence

Renewing the power of spirit in your life.

The mystical poems of Rumi, Kabir, and Hafiz are a doorway to the soul, capable of opening the spiritual heart to the power of unconditional love. In their timeless accessibility and sublime grace, these poems have touched generations for centuries. These exquisite new versions capture the sacred depth and lyrical beauty of these great masters in contemporary language that will be sure to move, guide, and inspire.

This book is a translation and study of the poems of a ninth-century woman saint and mystic. The Introduction is designed to make the translations accessible to a non-specialist audience, while the Notes provide insights into the poems and useful explications of allusions and convention with which readers who do not possess a specialized knowledge of Tamil Vaisnava bhakti may be unfamiliar.

The Love Path presents a radical, new, and exciting theory about the evolution of human love consciousness. The author postulates that The Love Path is one of four developmental routes that can assist us to become who we want to be. The other routes are The Truth Path, The Peace Path, and The Warrior Path. While we can change direction at any time and experiment with different modes of being, those who choose to focus on the developmental tasks of The Love Path right to its completion become Masters of Love. The first part of the book outlines key concepts which form the building blocks to the author’s theory, and explains why modern love relationships have become increasingly complex. The second part of the book is a step-by-step practical overview of how love consciousness can grow through four maturational stages of human experience: 1. Sensuality, 2. Sexuality, 3. Advanced Intimacy, and 4. Compassion. Individually, The Love Path offers followers happiness and inner peace. Collectively, The Love Path is a guide for those wishing to create Eden on Earth. The choice is ours.