Finding True Love: The 4 Essential Keys to Discovering the Love of Your Life [Paperback]

Daphne Rose Kingma (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2001

In Finding True Love, Daphne Rose Kingma offers a simple but life-changing message: true love is a great emotional and spiritual awakening, and one that is available for anyone willing to seek it. She describes the four qualities necessary for love: faith, trust, intention, and surrender. She divides the discussion into four parts, each devoted to one of the qualities and exploring its part in attaining the emotional and spiritual attitudes required for finding the love of one's life. Through sensible steps and advice, she challenges readers to uncover and discover the reasons they have not found a fulfilling relationship -- and to set it right.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: RedWheel / Weiser (August 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157324564X
• ISBN-13: 978-1573245647
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learning to Navigate the Path to Love, February 2, 2003

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Cynthia Sue Larson "www.realityshifters.com" (San Francisco bay area, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finding True Love: The 4 Essential Keys to Discovering the Love of Your Life (Paperback)

If you haven't yet discovered Daphne Rose Kingma, you are in for a treat. In "Finding True Love," Kingma shares wisdom gleaned from her 25 year career as a therapist, providing encouragement and inspiration for even the most lovelorn among us.

Kingma shows that there is a "path to love," and that you are already on it. When you open yourself with a sense of faith and know that love awaits you, and make yourself available for love... you have begun your journey. Your next step is to set your intention for love, which means you will need to know who you really are, discover why love has apparently eluded you so far, and develop your capacity for love. Once you've set your intentions, you need to restore a sense of trust in love. This trust involves being realistic about what love actually is at the same time that you recognize the higher (spiritual) purpose of relationships, and appreciate the wisdom of spirit in creating relationships for you. Finally, you need to master the art of surrender to love -- and Kingma explains how this involves letting go of your preconceptions about what love is and isn't at the same time as you leap into the unknown with a sense of gratitude and appreciation for the paradox of love.

Kingma is a master at helping us unconditionally love ourselves at the same time as we learn to trust spirit and love -- even when our hearts may have been broken so many times before. She shares touching stories that illustrate her points, and offers a glimpse of what love can be, if only we learn to allow it fully into our lives.

This book can change your life forever. I give it my highest recommendation!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for those looking for love, June 14, 2005

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Casey Dawes "Wise Woman Shining" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finding True Love: The 4 Essential Keys to Discovering the Love of Your Life (Paperback)

Finding True Love: The Four Essential Keys to Discovering the Love of Your Life by Daphne Rose Kingma is a jewel of a book that I recommend to anyone who is looking for a new love. I used it myself when I was in the process of dissolving my third marriage and realized that something needed to change. What I discovered was that thing that needed to change was me!

I used Kingma's book as one of two to take me through the process of self-examination and renewed hope. The four keys that she proposes are faith, intention, trust and surrender. Each section on a particular key is broken down into chapters with exercises to do within each chapter. The book is enlivened by stories about people that Kingma has known in her psychotherapy practice.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A gentle reminder of what it is, February 27, 2005

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M. R. Estante "book reader" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finding True Love: The 4 Essential Keys to Discovering the Love of Your Life (Paperback)

Daphne really is a rose in how she explains love is to the world. The beautiful book not only talks about the barriers to love, it also recommends ways to believe in it before its physical manifestation. If you are struggling with patience over meeting your true love (and you do have much more than one soulmate out there) ... Kingma's wisdom is for you.