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Becoming a True Spiritual Community: A Profound Vision of What the Church Can Be - Dr. Larry Crabb 2007

Amazon Synopsis: In today's frenetic society, people rarely develop intimate friendships. Instead, they spend their lives essentially disconnected from others, rushing through life content with brief visits and casual conversations. But what if one were to develop a community, a spiritual community, of people who walked with and supported each other through life's journey? A community of real friends who listened to each other's personal tragedies without merely trying to fix the problems, who encouraged and nurtured each other's strengths, and who accepted people for who they really are, instead of the image they try to portray. In Becoming a True Spiritual Community (formerly titled The Safest Place on Earth), Larry Crabb explores such a place, where God can heal disconnected people and allow them to reconnect with each other and, ultimately, with Him.

The Conscious Heart: Seven Soul-Choices That Create Your Relationship Destiny - Gay Hendricks & Kathlyn Hendricks 1999

Amazon Synopsis: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks are two of today's foremost relationship experts. Their bestselling book Conscious Loving has already become essential reading for tens of thousands of couples. Now, in The Conscious Heart, they identify the seven commitments that can transform from the inside out.

These seven simple--but powerful--choices enable couples to:

• Use conflict to create greater understanding
• Overcome the fears and defenses that block intimacy
• Resolve struggles for control
• Increase generosity and appreciation
• Deepen passion, commitment, and aliveness
• Release the creativity of each partner

Filled with numerous true-life stories--including how the authors survived and grew from their own midlife marital crisis--The Conscious Heart is an inspiring and instructive affirmation of the ultimate power of love.

 

Creating a Spiritual Relationship - Paul Ferrini 1998

Amazon Synopsis: This book is designed for people who are either in a committed relationship or want to be. A committed relationship is one path toward spiritual growth and transformation. It is not the only path, nor is it a very easy path. The seven spiritual laws discussed in Part Two of this book provide a roadmap for couples who are committed to their mutual spiritual growth. This simple but profound guide to growth and happiness for couples will help you and your partner weather the ups and downs of your relationship so that you can grow together and deepen the intimacy between you.

 

Dance While You Can: On Relationships, Feelings, and Family – Shirley MacLaine 1992

Amazon Synopsis: The best-selling author, actress, and all-around celebrity shares personal stories about her own family--her parents, brother Warren Beatty, and her only daughter--and discusses her life in the movies over a period of four decades

Dr. Love’s Prescription for a Romantic Loving Man - Bobby O'Neal 2012

Amazon Synopsis: How one man's love journey is inspiring a global brotherhood of Loving Men.

This entertaining and inspirational story exposes the naked truth of how a forestry guy steps out of the woods to become Dr Love. If you are a romantic guy, the lover in you could have written this book. Your intuition has confirmed that Dr Love's prescription for becoming a sexy, romantic loving man is good medicine for you. If you are a regular guy, the lover in you is seducing you to read this book, you are only eight chapters away from becoming a more compassionate, caring, sexy, romantic loving man. If you are a woman, this book is going to help you to discover and uncover the man of your dreams. He is probably already in there, you just have to help stroke the romance out of your man.

Congratulations to the young adults for reading this book. This book is a message of love and hope for you. It is time for all men to open our hearts to love, to respect and honor women, to support our brothers and to raise boys to men with love. Generations change and evolve and you will now have the tools and knowledge to break old patterns and help transform this world to a more loving home for future generations.

Edgar Cayce and Group Dynamics – Worth Kidd 1975

 

Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation and Family Karma - Kevin Todeschi 2011

Amazon Synopsis: Life is a completely lawful experience because of the universal laws of reincarnation and karma that draw individuals together. Rather than being some type of unavoidable destiny or a fate about which we can do very little, the Edgar Cayce material instead sees karma as essentially an unconscious reservoir of information stored within the soul’s memory. Although this memory may draw certain events and individuals to one another, personal free will and the way in which an individual responds to that memory determines her or his actual life experiences.

Drawing upon contemporary family relationships, as well as family relationships for individuals who received guidance from Edgar Cayce, this insightful volume examines the activities of reincarnation and karma, especially as they play out in the dynamics of family relationships. All individuals are brought together within their respective families as a means of learning specific lessons and having opportunities for personal soul growth. In addition to examining the universal laws of reincarnation and karma, this book illustrates the lawfulness of life, the exacting nature of individual responsibility, and the ever-present hopefulness of personal free will.

In the end, Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation and Family Karma makes an enormous contribution to demonstrating that life is a completely lawful experience, that individuals can overcome whatever “karmic lessons” they seem to be faced with, that free will is completely free, and that God is truly as fair and as loving as we have always wished for our Creator to be.

 

Edgar Cayce on Soul Mates: Unlocking the Dynamics of Soul Attraction - Kevin J. Todeschi 1999

Amazon Synopsis: Is there really such a thing as soul mates? According to Edgar Cayce, yes. But his definition of "soul mates," "twin souls," and "perfect partners" may differ from what you're expecting. For decades, Cayce provided thousands of individuals with insights into the nature of their personal relationships. What is unique about Todeschi's book is that it explores the development of relationships over time, played out within the framework of reincarnation. In addition to discussing soul mate relationships, their connection to the cyclic pattern of reincarnation, and the nature of loneliness, this books looks at the fundamentals of soul attraction and provides contemporary examples of the same principles discussed by Cayce.

Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening - Stephen & Ondrea Levine  1996

Amazon Synopsis: Stephen and Ondrea Levine have devoted more than eighteen years to investigating the mind/body relationship, particularly as it relates to the states healing, dying, and grieving.  Their work has affected healing and medical practices worldwide.  Now, in Embracing the Beloved, the Levines turn their attention to what has been "our most significant spiritual commitment—our own relationship."

In this groundbreaking book, they demonstrate how to use a relationship as a means for profound inner growth and healing.  Their insights and anecdotes will benefit all who are drawn to looking inward, and all who seek a relationship as a path for spiritual renewal and merciful awareness of life.

 

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts - Gary D Chapman 2009

Amazon Synopsis: Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouse’s primary love language—quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch.

By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together.

Gary Chapman hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio program called A Love Language Minute that can be heard on more than 150 radio stations as well as the weekly syndicated program Building Relationships with Gary Chapman, which can both be heard on fivelovelanguages.com.

The Five Love Languages is a consistent new York Times bestseller - with over 5 million copies sold and translated into 38 languages.  This book is a sales phenomenon, with each year outselling the prior for 16 years running!

Includes a promotional code to gain exclusive online access to the new comprehensive love languages assessment.

If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path - Charlotte Kasl 1999

Amazon Synopsis: In this practical, playful, yet spiritual guide, Charlotte Kasl, author of the highly successful Finding Joy: 101 Ways to Free Your Spirit and Dance with Life, shows you what it would be like to have the ancient wisdom of the Buddha to guide you through the dating process.

Kasl brings a compassionate understanding to the anxiety and uneasiness of new love, and helps readers discover their potential for vibrant human connection based on awareness, kindness, and honesty. She approaches the dating process as a means for awakening, reminding us that when we live by spiritual rules, we bring curiosity and a light heart to the romantic journey.

Filled with quotations from Zen, Sufi, and other wisdom traditions, and informed by the experiences of people from all walks of life, here is a relationship book that will appeal to readers looking for more than a Venus-meets-Mars solution to the complex affairs of the heart.

 

In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want - Iyanla Vanzant 1999

Amazon Synopsis: You know where you want to be, but you have no clue how to get there. You know exactly what you want in life, but what you want is nowhere in sight. Perhaps your vision is unclear, your purpose still undefined. On top of it all, your relationships, particularly your romantic relationships, are failing. If these scenarios feel familiar way down in the deepest part of your gut -- then you, my dear, are smack dab in the middle of the meantime.

Every living being wants to experience the light of love. The problem is that our windows are dirty! The windows of our hearts and minds are streaked with past pains and hurts, past memories and disappointments. In this book, Iyanla Vanzant teaches us how to do our mental housekeeping so that we can clean the windows, floors, walls, closets, and corners of our minds. If we do a good job, our spirits will shine bringing in the light of true love and happiness.

J Krishnamurti - The Mirror of Relationship: Love, Sex, and Chastity - Jiddu Krishnamurti 2012

Amazon Synopsis: Krishnamurti stressed that relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. Topics discussed include the nature of image-making, pleasure and desire, sex, chastity, marriage, and love--When sexual feeling is born out of pleasure it is lust. If it is born out of love it is not lust, even though great delight may then be present.

 

J Krishnamurti Relationships To Oneself, To Others, To the World - Jiddu Krishnamurti 2010

Journey of the Heart – John Welwood, PhD 1996

Amazon Synopsis: 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.

 

Loving in the Moment: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationship- Gina Lake 2011

Amazon Synopsis: Are you sabotaging the love that is possible in your relationships? Have you ever wished you could unlock the love that is your true nature and express it fully? Loving in the Moment offers a spiritual approach to transforming relationships by showing you how to let go of your preconceived ideas and judgments. By moving beyond your ego and conditioning, you can create a richer, more loving life for yourself and those you care about. You have the power to determine how much love you experience in any given moment.

Loving in the Moment offers profound insights and practical advice about:

• how to recognize, find, and sustain a meaningful relationship
• how the ego interferes with love and happiness
• how to overcome anger, judgments, criticism, and resentment
• how to move beyond romantic illusions
• how to see the Divine in another
• how to resolve common issues such as infidelity, money, commitment, and sexual differences

 

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex - John Gray 2004

Amazon Synopsis: The most well-know, long-lived, and tried-and-tested relationships guide ever, the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is now available for the first time ever in trade paperback. In this classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication by acknowledging the differences between their needs, desires, and behaviors. No other relationship guide on the market will give you the same level of evidence-based insight sure to help you strengthen and nurture your relationships for years to come.

On Love and Loneliness - Jiddu Krishnamurti 1994

Amazon Synopsis: In 1950 Krishnamurti said: "It is only when the mind is not escaping in any form that it is possible to be in direct communion with that thing we call loneliness, the alone, and to have communion with that thing, there must be affection, there must be love."

On Love and Loneliness is a compelling investigation of our intimate relationships with ourselves, others, and society. Krishnamurti suggests that "true relationship" can come into being only when there is self-knowledge of the conditions which divide and isolate individuals and groups. Only by renouncing the self can we understand the problem of loneliness, and truly love.

 

Raising Them Right: 301 Ways to Be a Loving Parent - Roger Pierangelo & Jackie Pierangelo 1994

Book Jacket: Parents of the '90s are faced with numerous challenges in raising their children. Now a successful child psychologist and his wife--with two happy children of their own--have designed a perfect (and proven) program for raising emotionally healthy, loving and confident children.

 

Relationships: Love, Marriage and Spirit - John Roger 2000

Amazon Synopsis: Offering insights into the issues that threaten relationships and practical tools to strengthen and make them work, this book reveals secrets on how to move past the limitations of traditional roles—woman, man, mommy, daddy, and others—into practical ways to give and receive more loving, sharing, happiness, and fulfillment.

 

The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth – M. Scott Peck, MD 2003

Amazon Synopsis: Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than seven million copies in the United States and Canada, and translations into more than twenty-three languages, it has made publishing history, with more than ten years on the New York Times bestseller list.

Now, with a new Introduction by the author, written especially for this twenty-fifth anniversary deluxe trade paperback edition of the all-time national bestseller in its field, M. Scott Peck explains the ideas that shaped this book and that continue to influence an ever-growing audience of readers.

Written in a voice that is timeless in its message of understanding, The Road Less Traveled continues to help us explore the very nature of loving relationships and leads us toward a new serenity and fullness of life. It helps us learn how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become a more sensitive parent; and ultimately how to become one's own true self.

Recognizing that, as in the famous opening line of his book, "Life is difficult" and that the journey to spiritual growth is a long one, Dr. Peck never bullies his readers, but rather guides them gently through the hard and often painful process of change toward a higher level of self-understanding.

The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment - Deepak Chopra 2006

Amazon Synopsis: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was a phenomenon that touched millions of lives. Its author, Deepak Chopra, received thousands of letters from parents who expressed the desire to convey the principles they had learned to their children, along with questions about how to do so.

The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents is Dr. Chopra’s answer to those parents who wish to raise children with values that satisfy spiritual needs as well as create the experience of abundance. Exploring specific ways to practice the Seven Spiritual Laws as a family, Chopra explains how to convey these laws to children, and how to embody them in age-specific activities each day.

The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents moves us beyond a focus on private triumphs and failures to experience the spiritual nature of communion with family, to share with those closest to us the infinite riches of innocence and love.

The deepest nurturing you can give your child is spiritual nurturing.

There are seven simple sayings that can have a profound impact on your child’s life.

• Everything is possible.
• If you want to get something, give something.
• When you make a choice, you change the future.
• Don’t say no—go with the flow.
• Every time you wish or want, you plant a seed.
• Enjoy the journey.
• You are here for a reason.

Raised with these insights, every child can obtain the success that comes from having the most valuable skills anyone can possess: the ability to love and have compassion, and the capacity to feel joy and spread it to others. In this essential work for every parent, Deepak Chopra reflects on his experiences as a father as well as his own spiritual journey and offers profound and practical ways for sharing these principles with your children.

 

Sex and the Spiritual Path – Herbert B. Puryear, PhD 1999

Amazon Synopsis: "Does physical desire affect my spiritual development?"

"What is 'normal' sex?"

"Is sex outside of marriage a sin?"

In this enlightening book, clinical psychologist Herbert Puryear explores the subject of sexuality and spirituality based on the work of renowned American psychic Edgar Cayce. This guide provides excerpts from the Cayce readings to reveal how sex "can be one of the most beautiful modes of expression of love that approaches the Divine," and much more, including:

• The relationship between sexuality and creativity
• The body-beautiful as a temple
• The difference between creative sexuality and selfish sexuality
• The role of sexuality in your spiritual path
• Birth control
• Separation and divorce

This thought-provoking book sheds new light on the relationship between the body and the soul, and shows how we can develop a healthier and more spiritually based understanding of sex through the work of renowned seer Edgar Cayce.

 

Soulmates – Jess Stearn 1985

Amazon Synopsis: Unlimited, unconditional, unending love.  Is it fantasy or reality? In this extraordinary and fascinating book, bestselling author Jess Stearn reveals that perfect love does exist--that you can find it, experience it . . . and with it, change your life forever. Here are the inspiring stories of many real-life soulmates Stearn has met, the innermost secrets of celebrities like Shirley MacLaine, Susan Strasberg, Howard Hughes, and Joan Hackett, who have sought and found the ultimate love.

Now you can share in the drama and ecstasy of fulfilling your deepest and most powerful yearnings and desires. You too can find your own true soulmate.

 

Spiritual Connections: How to Find Spirituality in Relationships – Sylvia Browne 2008

Amazon Synopsis: Have you ever wondered why some relationships are wonderful and others are just catastrophic and tragic? Why do we get along with some people and with others just seem to constantly engage in bitter fighting? In this fascinating and helpful book, internationally renowned psychic Sylvia Browne examines why we form our relationships with certain individuals . . . for better or for worse. From the lifelong connection of a loving marriage to the short and bitter agony of a brief encounter leading to divorce and heartache, she reveals why we have joyful and happy relationships on the one hand and chaotic, hateful and painful ones on the other. Sylvia takes us on a remarkable excursion that covers all the different types of relationships we'll encounter in life.

From our childhood experiences to our golden years, she helps us see why we form both good and bad unions, and she also explores how our themes and charts of life can interact with others in both positive and negative ways - creating either lifelong love or friendship or a situation doomed for disaster. Sylvia enables us to come to a true understanding of why we have certain compulsions and attractions for some people while being totally repulsed by others. By utilizing Sylvia's marvelous insights, we can all learn how to cultivate our relationships (and sift the wheat from the chaff) in order to live a happier and more fulfilling life.

 

Spiritual Friendship - Mindy Caliguire 2007

Amazon Synopsis: We are tired. Many of us long for sources of nurture for our weary souls. But we don't know where to turn. We've tried various Christian plans for growth, yet sometimes these programs leave us even more drained and frustrated. Interestingly, the answer can be found in our everyday lives: ordinary relationships can restore life and health to our depleted souls.

So why do we resist intimacy with others if it's part of our soul's architecture? Because people also cause us pain.

Soul Care Resources are designed to be simple, but not simplistic, guides to maintaining or recovering the life and health of your soul. introduces you to principles of friendship that bring focus to your spiritual life. You'll discover what it takes to have a rich, God-centered relationship that will nourish your soul.

You use this book in small chunks of daily reading, covering the whole book in the course of four weeks. Also included are four guided group discussions for use with a small group or a spiritual friend.

The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates - Amy Leigh Mercree

Amazon Synopsis: What's a Spiritual Girl to Do?

There's love—and then there's the love of your life, your soul mate, your one true partner you were destined to share this journey with. But in this material world of online hookups and speed dating, finding that special someone whose soul speaks to yours can seem like an impossible task. But it doesn't have to be that way—with The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating, you can master the Art of Spiritual Dating—and attract your true soul mate.

In this one-of-a-kind Spiritual Dater's Toolkit, acclaimed healer and intuitive Amy Leigh lays out her spiritual yet sensible strategies for finding and keeping the love of your life, including how to:

• Empower Your Heart
• Live the Natural Law
• Separate Karmic Attraction from True Connection
• Identify the Four Men to Avoid
• Harness Your Own Sexual Energy
• Know Your Soulmates: Twin Flames and Divine Complements

With Leigh's perceptive and prescriptive advice, you'll find yourself on the soulful journey of a lifetime—to lasting love!

 

Sylvia Browne’s Lessons for Life – Sylvia Browne 2012

Amazon Synopsis: An Excerpt from the Book When you put your all into this program and complete it, you'll come out feeling refreshed, renewed, and released from your doubts, fears, and phobias. You will, through your own introspection, become more spiritual, which naturally leads to being more psychic. You'll know that life is all a textbook of learning played out on the stage of this world, and when it's over, you'll exit behind the curtains and go home from whence you came....

This book will help you find almost every facet you need to help you arrive at your own spirituality, and it will help you get over your feelings of guilt, loss, and instability. The information within will answer questions in more depth than I've previously explored or written about, and the meditations and exercises will enhance your consciousness to bring you closer to your divine purpose and your ultimate love affair with God.... Put all you have into this, and you'll get a hundredfold back. Good luck!

Struggle for Intimacy - Janet G. Woititz 1993

Amazon Synopsis: The struggle for intimacy is a complex issue, key to the happiness of every man and woman. It goes on for all of us as long as we live. To be intimate is to be close, to be vulnerable, qualities that are very different from the survival skills we learned. This book will help clarify the issues for you.

You can learn to:

• Identify family myths to make you wonder whether having a healthy, intimate relationship is possible.
• Know the questions to ask to find out whether you and your partner have a long-term future together.
• Be aware of misunderstandings that can sabotage your relationship.
• Express your feelings and fears so as to avoid misunderstandings.
• Find our what to do when your relationship is not working.
• Create good relationships.

Acquiring intimacy skills can be difficult, but through understanding and effort, they can be learned. This insightful book is a good place to begin.

The Tao of Leadership: Leadership Strategies for a New Age – John Heider 1986

Book Jacket: How to be the very best kind of leader

In the fifth century B.C., the Chinese sage Lao Tzu set down the laws of effective leadership that he had discovered after years of meditation and careful observation. He called his invaluable teaching Tao Te Ching, which translates as 'The Book of How Things Happen', and addressed it to the wisest, most powerful leaders of his day.

Knowing how things happen gives the leader more power and ability than all the degrees and titles the world can offer. This program -- featuring comments and anecdotes by bestselling author Dr. Denis Waitley -- will help you learn how things happen.

The principles within this program are for anyone who aspires to leadership, whether in business, politics, government, school, church or family. Through a combination of excerpts from the Tao Te Ching, juxtaposed with contemporary examples that illuminate the quotations, The Tao of Leadership instructs listeners in the art of governing through the skillful management of human resources.

 

The Tao of Relationships: A Guide to Love and Friendship for a New Age – Ray Grigg 1988

Amazon Synopsis: The balancing of man and woman is not just their coming together, but their ability to stay separate. Love, like the Tao, cannot be limited by time or words. They are a process, a way of life, a balance. They move from the yin and yang of male/female to the mystical wholeness of the Tao. This thought-provoking, intuitive, and inspiring volume is for all lovers to learn from and enjoy.

The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships -  Esther Hicks & Jerry Hicks 2009

Amazon Synopsis: Includes a BONUS CD on the Law of Attraction!

This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present The Teachings of Abraham, will help you understand every relationship you are currently involved in as well as every relationship you have ever experienced.

This book uncovers a myriad of false premises that are at the heart of every uncomfortable relationship issue, and guides you to a clear understanding of the powerful creative Vortex that has already assembled the relationships that you have desired. Abraham will show you how to enter that Vortex, where you will rendezvous with everything and everyone you have been looking for.

Abraham says: “It is our desire to help you to solve the mystery of those seemingly impossible relationships; to sort out the details of joyously sharing your planet with billions of others; to rediscover the beauty of your differences; and, most of all, to reestablish the most important relationship of all: your relationship with the Eternal, Non-Physical Source that is really you.

 “It is our desire that you experience an enhanced appreciation of your planet; your body; your family; your friends; your enemies; your government; your systems; your food; your finances; your animals; your work and your play; your purpose; your Source; your Soul; your past, your future, and your present. . . ."

 

Why Talking Is Not Enough: Eight Loving Actions That Will Transform Your Marriage - Susan Page 2007

Amazon Synopsis: Why Talking Is Not Enough, written by Susan Page, author of the acclaimed bestseller If I’m So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? presents a novel relationship strategy based on subtle, powerful changes in your own actions. This method shows you the magic of “Keep your mouth out of it!” Page’s pioneering eight-step program invites you to give up problem solving and move directly to a warmer, more loving and fun relationship, based on universal spiritual principles.

In this book you will learn how to transform your relationship into a Spiritual Partnership by adopting these Eight Loving Actions:

• Adopt a Spirit of Good Will
• Give Up Problem Solving
• Act as If
• Practice Restraint
• Balance Giving and Taking
• Act on Your Own
• Practice Acceptance
• Practice Compassion

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