Handbook for the Heart: Original Writings on Love - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316128287 ISBN 13: 9780316128285

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1996

Synopsis

A collection, including pieces by John Gray, Deepak Chopra, Nathaniel Branden, and Leo Buscaglia, attempts to provide insights into love, its purpose, its spiritual significance, and our enduring attempts at attaining it. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Best-selling author Richard Carlson, Ph.D., creator of the popular Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series and the just published Don't Get Scrooged, died suddenly of cardiac arrest enroute to New York on December 13. Carlson, 45, published his first book in 1985 and went on to publish more than 20 books that remain popular in English and in translation in 130 languages and 35 countries. Richard Carlson grew up in Piedmont, CA. He received his undergraduate degree from Pepperdine University and his Ph.D. in psychology from Sierra University. He was in private practice as a psychotherapist when he started to publish books about psychological and spiritual health. As his books started to attract a large audience, he began writing full time so he could teach more people how to live with presence and ease by cultivating gratitude and generosity. Dr. Carlson was a large supporter of and participant in the National Center for Family Literacy and at the time of his death he was working on a project with them called for "A Penny a Book" from publishers, authors and literary agents to promote literacy. Dr. Carlson is survived by his wife and life partner of 25 years, Kris Carlson, his co-author on Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love and the author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Women, his loving daughters Jasmine and Kenna, sisters, Kathleen Carlson Mowris of Olympic Village, CA and Anna L. Carlson of La Selva Beach, CA, and his parents, Barbara and Don Carlson of Orinda, CA. A private memorial service will be held next week. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made in Richard's honor to local food banks, Challenge Day, Girls Inc. or Children Inc.

From AudioFile:

These are 10-minute excerpts from essays on the faces and rewards of love by 17 notable New Age/Buddhist/mind-body practitioners, like Deepak Chopra, Jack Kornfield, Marianne Williamson and Joan Borysenko. Although the segments don't do justice to the essays, they can serve as perfect openers for meditation and journal writing. Eikenberry and Tucker complement each other as she reads the segments by women, he the ones by men. Both read well, but it's Tucker who seems to bring more conviction and verve to the program. Pleasant acoustic music marks the transition from one reading to the next. P.B.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0316128287
• ISBN 13: 9780316128285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Editor: Carlson Richard, Shield Benjamin