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  • Published: 2 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781611800838
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $55.00
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The Power of Divine Eros

The Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life



Two innovative spiritual teachers show how to use desire and passion—eros—as a gateway to realizing our fullest potential
 
What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it.

Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential.

Through guided exercises, the authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.

  • Published: 2 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781611800838
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

About the authors

A. H. Almaas

A. H. Almaas is the pen name ofHameed Ali, the Kuwaiti-
born originator of the Diamond Approach, who has been
guiding individuals and groups in Colorado, California, and
Europe over the past twenty-five years. He is the founder of
the Ridhwan School, which teaches the Diamond Approach in
the United States and abroad.