Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
by Sharon Salzberg
Love for yourself, for another, for all, as a capacity rather than a commodity, with meditations and stories. Salzberg's gentlest book and a counter to romantic scarcity.
Read it if…
you treat love as something you lack rather than something you do.
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Skip it if…
you want relationship tactics.
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Three things you will actually use
- Love is a capacity, not a transaction.
- Start with yourself.
- Extend it outward daily.
Do this first
Read the section on self-love and do the first meditation.
Our verdict
Love as capacity.
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