A Course in Love: Powerful Teachings on Love, Sex, and Personal Fulfillment [Paperback]

Joan M. Gattuso (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 16, 1997

Picking up where A Return to Love leaves off, Gattuso applies the powerful teachings of A Course in Miracles to love, sex, and personal fulfillment in a book that has a message for everyone.

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Marketed as an application of...A Course in Miracles (1975) to the realm of relationships, this book describes a "new path" where the reader will learn to know what it's like to have love without conflict, to forgive the past totally, to have happiness as the purpose of relationships, and to know that relationships were meant to be holy. The book begins by examining the status of relationships today: the ups, the downs, and, most importantly, the dysfunctional norm. The second part lays out the journey from hell to holy relationships step by step so that readers can begin their own transformational relationship. The book concludes with an intimate look at several couples who now enjoy satisfying, love-filled relationships. Largely successful in motivating and guiding the reader, this first book from inspirational speaker and workshop leader Gattuso is backed by a marketing campaign guaranteed to attract attention. A good choice for any library's relationship/spirituality section.
Marty Dean Evensvold, Magnolia Branch Lib., Tex.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Picking up where A Return to Love leaves off, Gattuso applies the powerful teachings of A Course in Miracles to love, sex, and personal fulfillment in a book that has a message for everyone. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne (January 16, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062513028
• ISBN-13: 978-0062513021
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #565,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Joan Gattuso
Biography

Nationally acclaimed author and speaker Joan Gattuso is one of the most insightful and compelling teachers of our time. She has inspired millions internationally through her weekly messages, stirring lecture and workshops, and bestselling books, A Course in Love and A Course in Life. Joan's most recent book, The Lotus Still Blooms, received the Silver Nautilus Award and had outstanding reviews in Tricycle, Body and Soul, Science of Mind, and Unity magazines. It is destined to become a spiritual classic.
Joan was born in Akron, Ohio, where she lived a short time before her family relocated to Gloucester, Massachusetts. At a young age Joan developed a great love for New England, and in its beauty and comfort she began her early quest for spiritual enlightenment.
Over the years Joan's openness to exploring life's many opportunities has allow her to evolve through the highs and lows the come with living a full life. She has withstood and triumphed over difficult relationships, a cancer diagnosis, and the struggles of building and maintaining a sustainable church. Joan's often painful history helped solidify her commitment to healing the past and attracting joyous circumstances and loving relationships into her life. Joan has imparted these critical life lessons over the course of her career as a teach, speaker and author, and she has become a highly sought-after mentor and guide.
Through insights into her own life Joan has gained an intense understanding of our deep connection to a Higher Power and the inner workings of human relationships and their potential when they are partnered with spiritual balance. Joan has also applied these principles in her personal business and in the establishment of Unity of Greater Cleveland in Shaker Height, Ohio, where all aspects of day-to-day operations come under her supervision.
Joan has finely tuned her life codes through intense spiritual studies in becoming a Unity minister and through years of study with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people. She has embraced his teaching that the purpose of life is to be happy. Through compassion, humor, wisdom and spiritual insights Joan gently guides her audiences in the steps to get there, showing them how to integrate happiness into their everyday lives and maintain their personal inner joy to be liberated from suffering.
Within a two-week period in the mid-1990s, Joan was encouraged by two transformational speakers, Wayne Dyer and Marianne Williamson to write a book on relationships. She took their suggestions to heart, and the resulting bestseller was A Course in Love. She has been creating her message for living a fuller life ever since.
Joan authors a regular column called "Living a Noble Life" in Unity magazine. She has also been published in Science of Mind, Tricycle and Hawaii magazines.
A dynamic speaker relating her knowledge to all paths of life, Joan Gattuso guides those from the most willing to the most reluctant seeker into a deeper understanding of their exceptional possibilities within this present existence.
Joan is joyfully living her philosophy of a happy, holy relationship with her husband, author David Alexander in Northeast Ohio and continues to be a beacon of light to those seeking a more triumphant life experience.
For further information, see her website, JoanGattuso.com or write her at [e-mail]

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite book on relationships with myself and others, July 27, 2000

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Elaine Abicca (Newton N. J.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Course in Love: Powerful Teachings on Love, Sex, and Personal Fulfillment (Paperback)

Joan Gattuso's book "A Course in Love"is the best book on relationships I have read . The book deals basicly with finding a spiritual base for the relationship with ourselves, clearing out all the blocks to our own good, forgiving our past , and taking full responsibility for our lives. Sounds like other spiritual books on relationships? In many ways ,most new thought books like this one , do ask the reader to assume the responsibility for what occurs in his/her life. I like Joan's book because she gives the explicit tools to accomplish all of the above.She incorporates many mystical traditions , Sufi, ACourse in Miracles, Unity and many more to remind one of their spiritual inheritance. I do feel, one has to be ready and open to this understanding ,and willing to do the work she has laid out in the book. The spiritually hearty will welcome this book.The forgiveness techniques, the opening the heart meditations,and the 10% of the pyramid clearing are a few of the reasons I continually workwith the book. I am now ordering it for my daughter. Thankyou Joan, for this wonderful reminder.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book I read in 1997, January 20, 1998

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D. G Sinclair (california) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Course in Love: Powerful Teachings on Love, Sex, and Personal Fulfillment (Paperback)

I learned at least (!) two powerful lessons from this book. The first is that, if I do not have the relationship I desire, it is probably because *I* am pushing it away with a conflicting value. For example, I may desire intimacy on one hand, but desire to avoid rejection on the other. So when intimacy becomes a possibility, I unconsciously push it away to avoid rejection. This truth helped me see that I am not powerless or entirely dependent on fate to bring me a partner - there are steps I can take to maximize the possiblity of finding the right person. The chapter on spirituality and sex was very powerful as well. Well worth reading for anyone who suffers singleness or is afraid of being divorced.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A loving relationship does not require work???, March 8, 2008

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gilda - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Course in Love: A Self-Discovery Guide for Finding Your Soulmate (Paperback)

I disagree. Even a perfect, loving relationship with your soul mate requires some degree of work and sacrifice. Any licensed marriage counselor will tell you that. Gattuso believes that once you find your soul mate, it should take no effort to keep the love alive. Everything should fall into place without any work or sacrifice, she believes. No effort? That may work in fairy tales but not in real life! I was much younger (and single) when I read this book. I totally bought into her views, but being older and more experienced (and happily married for seven years), I know better now.