Challenge of the Heart: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Changing Times - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394742001 ISBN 13: 9780394742007

Publisher: Shambhala, 1985

Synopsis

Focuses on the challenges of love between men and women, addressing the real questions and difficulties arising for people in relationships today.

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From the Back Cover:

This powerful collection of essays by such notables as D. H. Lawrence, Robert Bly, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Rainer Maria Rilke focuses on the challenges of love between men and women, addressing the questions and difficulties arising for people in relationships today. Anyone who is, has been, or hopes to be in an intimate relationship with a person of the opposite sex will find this book "must" reading.

The first group of essays deals with the contradictions and possibilities inherent in erotic love, leading to the question posed in the next section: What do men and women really want? The contributors then explore marriage as an ongoing path of personal transformation. That opens into a look at sexuality itself as an especially vivid meeting of two different worlds. The book closes with a group of writings that consider relationship as a vehicle for developing power, wisdom, and inner truth.

Carefully selected, threaded together by Welwood's insightful commentary, the essays presented here approach the challenge of intimacy with bravery and gentleness, inspiring the reader toward becoming a "warrior of the heart."

From the Inside Flap:

he challenges of love between men and women, addressing the real questions and difficulties arising for people in relationships today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shambhala
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0394742001
• ISBN 13: 9780394742007
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Welwood John