The Reality Of Love

Love is one, and love is “all we need.” This book argues against the traditional theological view that God’s love differs from human love. If God is love and love is one, we will find God embodied in all kinds of genuine love experiences. By analyzing Karl Rahner’s theology of love, the author explores how God penetrates and embraces the whole of reality, suggesting implications for Christian spirituality and spiritual direction.

Romance can truly be lifes most thrilling experience. To love and be loved is the hope of dreams. To care for and share life with someone you love is more fulfilling than can be imagined. With love and devotion, all waiting and longing, all the strains of mind and heart are far overshadowed, by a single moment in each others arms. Perhaps you will find solace and support as you read these poems. Perhaps you may find your dreams and desires reflected in the words and phrases. It is my hope and prayer each of you will cling to your dreams with fervor. Pursue those dreams with sincerity and love. They will come true for you.

Kit happened to stumble into a wormhole and found herself trapped in Sengoku Japan. She made a way for herself and she even found what she thought was love but when duty came before her heart she made the choice to try to go back to the future. Where she could try to move on. She made her way back tot eh place she first landed in this new and confusing time only to see a crack in the time space force and she stepped through it without thought. She stepped into a different version of the time she was just in. She found the same man but a different version there waiting for her by chance. Can she find love again with him?

The two theories of divine love that are examined in this book have their foundations in Greek, Jewish, Christian and Muslim ideas. Al-Ghazâlî (twelfth century) was influenced mainly by Plato and Ibn Sina's teachings, while al-Dabbâgh (thirteenth century), who accepted some Ghazâlîan notions, developed a theory of divine love that can be traced back to Neoplatonism. Both scholars created complete theories of divine love that include definitions of love, its causes and signs, the ways to love God, God's love for man, and kinds of love. The book will interest students of theology, philosophy and mysticism in general, and students of Islam in particular.

The Truth About Love is an original philosophical theory which presents a comprehensive, holistic model of the normal human psyche. The purpose of the book is to reveal, to the average person, their own nature. The Truth About Love is written in question and answer form, which gives the advantage of allowing the reader to focus quickly on questions of personal interest, and to reflect on each issue before moving on to a new concept. The first section, Love-The Key, comprises the central theory which explains the phenomenon of love. You learn how love transcends its reputation as a romantic attachment to another person, and gives you a basic premise for understanding most aspects of human nature. The second section, Emotion and Feeling , gives a complete explanation of emotion and, for the first time, an explanation of feeling, apart from emotion. This new knowledge is used to examine old philosophical questions about human nature such as altruism, creativity, and happiness. The third section, Motivation, relates the central theory to your everyday life, giving structure and meaning to your thoughts and actions in a simple and concise way. Also in this section, is perhaps the most important application of the concepts of love, emotion, and feeling, in an explanation of self-love. In conclusion, you will discover how self-love leads to optimum mental health and how this affects other areas of your life. The Truth About Love provides answers that you cannot find in textbooks but that you ask yourself everyday. They are simple questions, and simple answers, that will change your life.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.

Offering a revelatory new perspective on loving relationships, the author of "Hot Monogamy" guides readers through the natural stages of love, high and low, and shows how not to break up before the breakthrough.

“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).