A Course in Love: Powerful Teachings on Love, Sex, and Personal Fulfillment

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Summary: Gattuso is the best!
Review: A COURSE IN LOVE is the best book I have read on love and relationships. This book has given me tools to love myself as well as my brothers and sisters on the planet. A COURSE IN LOVE is a must read for everyone alive today.

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Summary: I WAS ABLE TO CRY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS AND SMILE.
Review: I COULDN'T WAIT TO SHARE THIS GREAT BOOK WITH MY LOST FRIENDS.I FINALLY DID SHARE MY BOOK AND MY SO-CALL FRIEND NEVER RETURNED THIS FABULOUS BOOK. THIS WAS MY FIRST SPIRITUAL AWAKENING.THE BOOK SHOULD BE USE IN HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL COURSES.YOUNG WOMAN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THERE SPIRITUAL SELFS BEFORE ENTERING COLLEGE. SINCERELY YOURS, DANITA L.CASTILLIO

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Summary: For specific audiences only
Review: I learned at least (!) two powerful lessons from this book. The first is that, if I do not have the relationship I desire, it is probably because *I* am pushing it away with a conflicting value. For example, I may desire intimacy on one hand, but desire to avoid rejection on the other. So when intimacy becomes a possibility, I unconsciously push it away to avoid rejection. This truth helped me see that I am not powerless or entirely dependent on fate to bring me a partner - there are steps I can take to maximize the possiblity of finding the right person. The chapter on spirituality and sex was very powerful as well. Well worth reading for anyone who suffers singleness or is afraid of being divorced.

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Summary: Best book I read in 1997
Review: I learned at least (!) two powerful lessons from this book. The first is that, if I do not have the relationship I desire, it is probably because *I* am pushing it away with a conflicting value. For example, I may desire intimacy on one hand, but desire to avoid rejection on the other. So when intimacy becomes a possibility, I unconsciously push it away to avoid rejection. This truth helped me see that I am not powerless or entirely dependent on fate to bring me a partner - there are steps I can take to maximize the possiblity of finding the right person. The chapter on spirituality and sex was very powerful as well. Well worth reading for anyone who suffers singleness or is afraid of being divorced.

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Summary: The Common Sense of Love
Review: I've read all of Joan's works and I find them and her to be "on point" with regard to human relationships--be they intimate or familial. The temptation is to negate Ms. Gatuso's findings because he doesn't mention any "professional" credentials (whatever those are). The fact that most find the book too artistic is (by and large) a justification for the books existence. If there is anyone looking for simple ways of finding the love that is inside each of us (without the expense of therapy or prescription drugs) this book is a must read. Indeed, you will find it so useful that you will want to read it more than once.

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Summary: For specific audiences only
Review: In this book and her similar "A Course in Life," the author appeals to a specific audience and I'm not in it. She lists no professional qualifications for advising us on looking for the answers to life's questions and how to find that perfrect relationship, in contrast to authors with professional qualifications and work experience in counseling or teaching. Those who have read A Course in Miracles have a better chance of making sense of her New Age language than I did. Also, what is the Unity of Greater Cleveland, of which she claims to be a minister? I appreciate a diversity of religious faiths--being a seminarian myself--where does she fit in? And having James Redfield endorse the book on the cover gives away the intended audience. I'll look to Lonnie Barach and Bernie Zilbergeld for more concrete advice from qualified experts with a less etherial outlook and self-promotion. A waste of good money for me.

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Summary: My favorite book on relationships with myself and others
Review: Joan Gattuso's book "A Course in Love"is the best book on relationships I have read . The book deals basicly with finding a spiritual base for the relationship with ourselves, clearing out all the blocks to our own good, forgiving our past , and taking full responsibility for our lives. Sounds like other spiritual books on relationships? In many ways ,most new thought books like this one , do ask the reader to assume the responsibility for what occurs in his/her life. I like Joan's book because she gives the explicit tools to accomplish all of the above.She incorporates many mystical traditions , Sufi, ACourse in Miracles, Unity and many more to remind one of their spiritual inheritance. I do feel, one has to be ready and open to this understanding ,and willing to do the work she has laid out in the book. The spiritually hearty will welcome this book.The forgiveness techniques, the opening the heart meditations,and the 10% of the pyramid clearing are a few of the reasons I continually workwith the book. I am now ordering it for my daughter. Thankyou Joan, for this wonderful reminder.

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Summary: My favorite book on relationships with myself and others
Review: Joan Gattuso's book "A Course in Love"is the best book on relationships I have read . The book deals basicly with finding a spiritual base for the relationship with ourselves, clearing out all the blocks to our own good, forgiving our past , and taking full responsibility for our lives. Sounds like other spiritual books on relationships? In many ways ,most new thought books like this one , do ask the reader to assume the responsibility for what occurs in his/her life. I like Joan's book because she gives the explicit tools to accomplish all of the above.She incorporates many mystical traditions , Sufi, ACourse in Miracles, Unity and many more to remind one of their spiritual inheritance. I do feel, one has to be ready and open to this understanding ,and willing to do the work she has laid out in the book. The spiritually hearty will welcome this book.The forgiveness techniques, the opening the heart meditations,and the 10% of the pyramid clearing are a few of the reasons I continually workwith the book. I am now ordering it for my daughter. Thankyou Joan, for this wonderful reminder.

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Summary: NEW AGE RELATIONSHIPS
Review: Read "a course in miracles" as a prerequisite to this book. "A course in miracles" is a dusty 19th century folk-art/religious cult of Millard and Myrtle Fillmore,a typical pre-Freudian, highly artistic interperatation of Man and God. Joan's book is no less pre-Freudian, and certainly less dusty. New age writers have no proffesional credentials other than their lofty artistic impression of man's (and, ahem..., womans) divine nature. Don't bother with this one.

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Summary: NEW AGE RELATIONSHIPS
Review: Read "a course in miracles" as a prerequisite to this book. "A course in miracles" is a dusty 19th century folk-art/religious cult of Millard and Myrtle Fillmore,a typical pre-Freudian, highly artistic interperatation of Man and God. Joan's book is no less pre-Freudian, and certainly less dusty. New age writers have no proffesional credentials other than their lofty artistic impression of man's (and, ahem..., womans) divine nature. Don't bother with this one.