The Power of Divine Eros: The Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life

The Power of Divine Eros: The Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life
ISBN-10
0834829134
ISBN-13
9780834829138
Category
Body, Mind & Spirit
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2013-09-17
Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Authors
Karen Johnson, A. H. Almaas

Description

What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it. Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential. The authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.

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