John Welwood – författare

The author of Journey of the Heart teaches couples how to use their relationships to explore and realize their inner selves, leading to deeper, more meaningful lives, and offers solutions to relationship problems. Reprint. $25,000 ad/promo.

While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most—in our intimate relationships. Why if love is so great and powerful are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps us from experiencing love''s full flowering in our lives.Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal, core wounding around love that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This wounding shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove—a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. And this shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us.This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace our humanness and appreciate the imperfections of our relationships as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves.Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world.

How can we connect the spiritual realizations of Buddhism with the psychological insights of the West? In Toward a Psychology of Awakening John Welwood addresses this question with comprehensiveness and depth. Along the way he shows how meditative awareness can help us develop more dynamic and vital relationships and how psychotherapy can help us embody spiritual realization more fully in everyday life. Welwood''s psychology of awakening brings together the three major dimensions of human experience: personal, interpersonal, and suprapersonal, in one overall framework of understanding and practice.

Die Schönheit und Großartigkeit der Liebe ist grenzenlos. Wie kommt es aber, dass es uns in Liebesbeziehungen meist nicht gelingt, dieses unermessliche Potential voll auszuschöpfen? Sensibel und poetisch schildert John Welwood den Grund unseres Scheiterns: Die meisten Menschen leiden unter einer tiefsitzenden emotionalen Verletzung, die all unsere Beziehungen sabotiert.Viele von uns können nicht wirklich glauben, dass sie, so wie sie sind, liebenswert sind.John Welwood hilft den Lesern, diese "Wunde des Herzens" zu verstehen und zu sehen, wie sie unsere Beziehungen formt. Dabei geht es keineswegs nur um die Beziehung zu unserem Lebenspartner, sondern auch um unser Verhältnis zu Familienmitgliedern, Freunden und Bekannten. Vollkommene Liebe zeigt uns, wie wir unser verwundetes Herz heilen können - um so unsere Innenwelt und damit auch die kriegerische Außenwelt in in heilsame Bahnen zu lenken.In diesem Sinne kann jede Beziehung zu einem mächtigen spirituellen Lehrmeister werden und uns helfen, verborgene innere Quellen zu erschließen und mechanisch gelebte Beziehungen in echte Seelenverwandtschaften zu transformieren.