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Challenge of the Heart: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Changing Times
Challenge of the Heart Love Sex and Intimacy in Changing Times Author:John Welwood (Editor) 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 p... more »erson 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 ten 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." Enchantment and discernment / JoseÌ Ortega y Gasset Love is not a feeling / M. Scott Peck Stirring the oatmeal / Robert Johnson Divine madness / Alan Watts "Love" as an addiction / Stanton Peele Falling in love / Francesco Alberoni Love evolving / Vladimir Solovyov The stream of desire / D.H. Lawrence Love and grasping / ChoÌgyam Trungpa On love : conditional and unconditional / John Welwood The man/woman game / Theodore and Betty Roszak Projecting our other half / John Sanford Cosmic masculine and feminine / Sukie Colegrave What men really want / Robert Bly and Keith Thompson On being a man / D.H. Lawrence The neglected child within / Robert Stein Fears of intimacy / Lillian Rubin Feminine genius / Ariel Ruth Hoebel The alchemy of man and woman / Eleanor Bertine Woman and solitude / Anne Morrow Lindbergh Marriage is dead, long live marriage! / Adolf GuggenbuÌhl-Craig Marriage and the living cosmos / D.H. Lawrence Poetry and marriage : the use of old forms / Wendell Berry Coupling/uncoupling / Robert Stein Marriage as transformative work / J.G. Bennett On intimacy and death / Elizabeth K. Bugental Sex as work / Lionel Lewis and Dennis Brissett Sex as contemplative activity / Alan Watts Magnetic attraction / Julius Evola Passion and transformation / Bernd Jager The sacred dimension / Suzanne Lilar Conscious love / A.R. Orage Coming to meet : advice from the I ching / Carol Anthony Renunciation and daring / ChoÌgyam Trungpa Dancing on the razor's edge / John Welwood Learning to love / Rainer Maria Rilke« less