Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart

Although this book is presented as a book on relationships, it is really about connecting with one's own deepest essence. This will, of course, have a profound effect on all of one's relationships. This is an essential book for anyone on a genuine spiritual path who seeks to take the leap into the non-conceptual awareness of being. The practices presented here are a tremendous support for meditation and prayer. By bringing the concepts of grievance, longing and absolute love into the realm of the body, the simple exercises in this book, if fully engaged, make the tricky business of opening one's heart easier. John Welwood has offered the world a tremendous gift. May all beings benefit.

This book will insightful regarding the way the mind works. This book highlight the unawareness of us human beings that it is our habitual thinking patterns and response that is the greatest obstacle in us having fulfilling relationships and happy life. However, to bring out the gold from this book, one needs to read this book again and again and use it as a personal guide of practice. I thank the author for his generous sharing and ernest effort in writing this book. He should continue to write. I hope to meet and talk to him one day.

This time Welwood risks labels like "namby pamby" in order to bring home what I suspect he's been suspecting all along. Love is all you need, really. We're all born, we're all going to die, we all suffer in various ways along the way. How blessed is the child whose world holds her tight with compassion and understanding through hunger and hardship, compared to the child who suffers the pain of judgement, fault-finding and ostracism even in a world of material plenty. For understanding the biological implications of love a fantastic adjunct to this book are the works about trauma healing by Peter Levine.

Wow, I wish I had read this about 10 years ago. It really got me to think about and see my relationship patterns in a different light. It hit a couple of bones right to the marrow. I recommend it to anyone who has ever struggled with relationship problems, especially ones with themselves. Thanks for this awesome book, John.

In Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships:Healing the Wound of the Heart, John Welwood eloquently guides the reader to live more consciously, enjoy more peace, and find deeper healing. By illuminating the dynamics of love and relationship, Welwood offered me the possibility of a greater understanding of my part in relationships and helped me discover further insights into opening my heart to myself and others. If life is a journey, Welwood is a gracious guide and this book is a manual that would benefit anyone interested in living their best life.