Real Love is a creative tool kit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships with yourself, your partner, friends and family, and with life itself.

Sharon Salzberg, a leading expert in Lovingkindness meditation, encourages us to strip away layers of negative habits and obstacles, helping us to experience authentic love based on direct experience, rather than preconceptions. Across three sections, Sharon explains how to dispel cultural and emotional habits, and direct focused care and attention to recapture the essence of what it is to love and be loved.

With positive reflections and practices, Sharon teaches us how to shift the responsibilities of the love that we give and receive to rekindle the powerful healing force of true connection. By challenging myths perpetuated by popular culture, we can undo the limited definitions that reduce love to simply romance or passion, and give the heart a much needed tune-up to connect ourselves to the truest experience of love in our daily lives.

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File Size: 3005 KB
Print Length: 318 pages
Publisher: Flatiron Books (June 6, 2017)
Publication Date: June 6, 2017
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01N928XGF
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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Screen Reader: Supported

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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,976 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #41 in Emotions & Mental Health
- #59 in New Age Meditation
- #65 in Buddhism (Kindle Store)

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T-Man

Easy to understand, yet profound and fulfilling

December 24, 2018

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

This was my introduction to lovingkindness and meditation, and I was absolutely thrilled with this book! I believe that if you read this book with an open mind and really listen, you will find that you can experience "real love" with the world around you. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone feeling depressed, unloved, unhappy, disconnected, and the like. This book brings real hope that we can have fulfilling experiences and relationships with the world around us by first cultivating the capacity for love within us.

The practices in this book cultivate positivity, healing, love, and a sense of wholeness with the universe, which is tremendously powerful. Sharon also used plenty of real world examples and has a down-to-earth style, which makes so if this much less daunting to beginners like me! I plan on buying Sharon's other books, including a print copy of this book as a gift for someone, continuing my studies of lovingkindness and meditation, and seeking supportive communities as mentioned in this book.

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Cheryl D. Odom

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June 15, 2018

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I wish I could like this book more than I do. It's a rehash of "loving kindness" meditation techniques. Other Buddhist writers have done a better job of covering the material.

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kate

Well Done

August 15, 2017

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I bought the book on Amazon and I love it. It is filled with a lot of insight and wisdom, but the information is very accessible. I was able to attend a retreat based on the book in July in Seattle which was a great adjunct to the book.

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Ginny

Read this!

August 24, 2017

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This is a wonderful book. One can read it and use it immediately to live in the moment for your whole life.

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Mitch Abblett, Ph.D. -- Author of The Five Hurdles to Happiness

Love is Always (in the) Present

August 24, 2018

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Sharon's book Real Love is a very important addition to the vast (and growing) mindfulness literature. Her accessible, compassionate voice helps reads take mindfulness practice "off the cushion" and into the daily life of relationship (with others and ourselves). In a time of division and separation as we're seeing play out on the world stage right now, it is so important to take in the heart-teachings of someone like Sharon and learn how to bring down the barriers to real love. Mitch Abblett, PhD, Author of The Five Hurdles to Happiness - and the Mindful Path to Overcoming Them

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Anca

Five Stars

November 28, 2017

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Wonderful book: absolutely worth reading it and then re-reading it! We can never do enough loving-kindness practice.

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Karricatur

REALly LOVEd it!

February 9, 2018

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

This book came to me at a time where I really needed to hear it and actually could take it in. So much written here is simple and has been said in other ways before but for me that just made it feel familiar, like wearing your favorite sweater. Like remembering what I know to be true. Loved it. Truly.

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Jeffrey C. Walker

Engaging stories, easy tools to enhance Love of yourself, others and the world!Just what we need now to bring us all together.

June 13, 2017

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

Sharon is a master at describing, in layman terms, how the science and practice of developing the skills to love can be brought to the world. Read it if you want to work on your own personal development, read it if you think you could have better relationships with others and read it if you want to create ripples of loving kindness that circulate around the world!

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