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The Book of Love: Awaken Your Passion to be Your Higher Self [Paperback]

Karen Bentley (Author)
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December 1, 2002
The power of love heals all, restores all, renews all. It will undo anger. It will undo guilt. It will restore kindness and trust to your relationships. It will enable you to feel good about yourself and others. It will inspire you to connect deeply with your own divinity and holiness. And it will create the possibility for happiness beyond your wildest expectations. This is not an empty promise. It is the truth.

Love is the only thing that really matters in our lives. When you’re on your deathbed, you don’t care about your bank account or your body weight or how your house is decorated or whether or not your children have good grades. All you care about is the love you have in your heart for others and the love they have for you.

Why wait until life is over to make this monumental realization about the importance of love? Do it now. Enrich your life now. Fill your heart with joy now. Don’t waste another second of your life in misery, or anger, or depression, or guilt. Because, truly, every single one of these feeling is a colossal waste of time. There is a better way to go through life, a much better way. It is the way of love.

The problem is that there’s much confusion about what it means to be a loving being. Love is one of those vague terms that means different things to different people. This results in wildly different expectations about how love "should be." In fact, everyone has their own fantasy about how love "should be" rather than how it is. The Book of Love awakens you from this dream by teaching how love is. The one seemingly subtle difference will open your mind and make you question everything you think you know about love. The tiny opening in the mind is the beginning of your spiritual journey home to God, to your Christ-self, and to a re-joining with your brothers and sisters.

The Book of Love is based on the spiritual ideas from A Course In Miracles®. The Course is not a religion. It is a path to a loving God completely and totally without the interference of religion. Some people consider it a correction to or a refinement of Christianity because it teaches how to perceive with the Holy Spirit rather than with the ego. In any case, The Book of Love gives the reader a snapshot into the Course, and the reader is free to objectively assess whether or not to pursue it. No pressure is exerted.

The Book of Love offers 10 blockbuster, mega turbo-charged benefits to the reader:
1. Clarity – You get unshakeable logic in a space where there’s much confusion.
2. Impact – Information is organized and presented in a strategic way that moves you to action.
3. Simplicity – Directions are practical and straightforward.
4. Results. It doesn’t matter whether you want to undo anger, undo guilt, undo depression, or forgive a lifelong grudge, your goal will be achieved.
5. Upliftment – Nothing useful is accomplished in misery. You will be refreshed and exhilarated by what you read.
6. Possibility – Once the mind is opened, anything is possible. Maybe even happiness beyond your wildest expectations.
7. Worthiness – When you become the source of unconditional love, your self esteem is unshakeable.
8. Independence – The Book of Love gives you everything you need to know to proceed on your own.
9. Value – Every chapter is packed with information or direct experiences. You get actionable ideas at the bargain price of less than $1 each.
10. Holiness - Meet your Christ-self and reconnect with your own divinity.

The miracle of love never fails. You will not be disappointed.


Editorial Reviews

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The Book of Love provides powerful insights to heal the human spirit to achieve optimal health and well-being. -- Dr. Peter A. Viteritti, Northboro, MA

This book is like the yellow brick road to enlightenment. It's simple. It's innocent, and it's inspiring. -- Vicki Poppe, Spiritual Retreat Leader

This book leads to the awareness of the real Love that is the core of everyone's being. -- Robert & Mary Stoelting, Co-founders of Pathways of Light

From the Publisher

The Book of Love is the second of four books in the awaken your passion series by Karen Bentley, published by Big Heart Books. The series is summarized below:

Book #1: 10 Radiant Ideas is an explanation of a non-religious, love-based system of beliefs based on A Course In Miracles.

Book #2: The Book of Love explains what it means to be a loving being from a deeply spiritual perspective. It presents the reader with the path of love as the path to enlightenment.

Book #3: The Power to Stop (available in 2003) teaches how to use the power of love to break any habit, including over eating, drinking, drugging, smoking and others.

Book #4: The Power to Heal (available in 2004) teaches how to use the power of love to heal yourself and others.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 245 pages
  • Publisher: Big Heart Corporation (December 1, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0966696735
  • ISBN-13: 978-0966696738
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,043,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars A completely new understanding of love, February 17, 2007
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This review is from: The Book of Love: Awaken Your Passion to be Your Higher Self (Paperback)
Anyone can be loving when things are going your way. This book explains how to be loving when things are not going your way. It has nothing to do with the romantic idea of love. Rather, it's all about how to choose to be love by transcending the ego. The author gives several practical ways to undo impulse to attack self and others through guilt, anger or depression. The thing I most liked about this book is that it's deeply spiritual without being religious or predictable, which is very refreshing and uplifting. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to experience more love in his or her life by being more loving.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Christian geared enlightenment, May 10, 2004
This review is from: The Book of Love: Awaken Your Passion to be Your Higher Self (Paperback)
If I could look beyond this book's Christian slant I might agree with some of what other reviewers are saying about it. In truth, the subtitle should be "Awaken your passion to be your Higher Christ - Self." If you can overlook that and other references to God (assuming this is the Christian God since we already see the Christ influence) the messages in the book could be enlightening. I doubt that the author intentionally left out the other religions in the world, for if it were so it would imply that only those of Christ mind could find enlightenment.

The basic ideas of this book are that there are four obstacles to love: The illusion of a special relationship (soulmates, relationship love, parental love), Anger, Guilt, and a lack of awareness. But love does not refer to what you think of in everyday life, for that kind of love, we are told, is simply our ego. It is fairy tale and selfish. Karen Bentley might call me unenlightened but I don't agree with this concept.

According to Bentley, there are six spiritual tools you need to have to change your life: A strategy of Holiness, Forgiveness, Gratitude, The holy instant of peace, Communing with your higher self, and Praying. She goes on to explore and explain these tools in depth in a very easy to read tone, using anecdotes and numerous quotes from "A Course in Miracles." Again, the text is full of Christian influence and doesn't need to be so, in my opinion. Enlightenment is available to every soul.

The writing is well done, the tone is uplifting (though at times condemning of your humanness) and the basic premise of connecting with your higher self is positive. I can see Christians everywhere wanting a copy of "The Book of Love." For what it is, the book is an appropriate, useful tool; it just isn't for everyone.

Review by Heather Froeschl of www.BookReview.com

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