The author says "Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present". This book offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships, one that focuses not on finding an ideal mate, but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Drawing on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, it explores the ...
This short book is essentially a primer on how to find lasting happiness in life. In the first part of the book, Richo identifies and explores the unavoidable "givens of life" - five simple facts of life that we too often deny: everything changes and ends; things do not always go according to plan; life is not always fair; pain is part of life; ...
Psychotherapist Richo explores the tendency to transfer potent feelings about people from the past onto the present. The author offers valuable insights and practical guidance on how to recognize and free oneself from this destructive pattern.
The author of the bestselling "How to Be an Adult" explains in his characteristic popular style how fear can cripple our ability to take risks in life and how it can be overcome by love. He looks at the deepest roots of fear and suggests practical ways to escape from fear.
Our "shadow" is the collection of negative or undesirable traits we keep hidden--the things we don't like about ourselves or are afraid to admit: egotist, non-"PC" proclivities, forbidden sexual desires. But it also includes our positive, untapped potential--qualities we may admire in others but disavow in ourselves. Befriending the shadow makes ...
Filled with stories and examples, and combining insights from psychology, religion, and poetry, this books shows how synchronicity--meaningful coincedence--works in daily life, in dreams, and imagination.
In this unique book, popular self-help author David Richo presents 52 promises we can make to ourselves to help us navigate the ups and downs of daily living in a wise, compassionate and psychologically healthy way. Drawing on the key themes of his best-selling books, and on decades of experience as a psychotherapist, Richo offers readers key ...
Written for those seeking a new faith, this book offers three core concepts Richo writes always have been present in Catholic tradition and need to be explored further: The recognition that religion begins as an intrapsychic event; the understanding that nature is the focus of divine life as examined by science; and the value of the teaching and ...
Relationships often begin with openness and heartfelt connection, but over time this connection can be lost among miscommunication, a lack of mutual support, and a loss of affection. But love can last, says David Richo, and in this dynamic workshop he shows us how. In encouraging terms, Richo reveals how we can strengthen our relationships using ...
While this book may arouse controversy and dialogue about the lost feminine archetype, it is also a deeply spiritual exploration of the feminine dimension of the divine that Mary represents and enriches.
You miss your plane by five minutes, but on the next flight you find a book in the seat pocket that ends up changing your direction in life. You order a red dress, but a black one arrives. Just as you're about to send it back, the phone rings and you learn that your aunt has died. Meaningful coincidences and surprising connections occur all the ...
Richo demonstrates how people have always venerated not the literal Mary but the feminine dimension of the divine that she represents and enriches. Using the titles in the "Litany of Loreto" with depth and reverence, this book opens a dialogue about Mary as a personification of the virtues and destiny of the human psyche, including the so far ...
Over the past 20 years, psychotherapist and author Richo has been gathering powerful quotations from authors and traditions, which he now offers in one volume.
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Privately Printed
Date Published: 1990
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" Tall B000TTIEXC Used In grey pictorial wraps, 8vo, 107pp. (light shelfwear, name to endpaper). read more
Description: Good. Revised edition, 1989. Highlighting on a few pages. Otherwise nice, lightly worn. We ship daily. International orders ship airmail. read more
Description: Very Good. New softcover, Richo, 1989, Revised Edition, cover has slight shelf, edge and corner wear, 2 names written in ink on 2nd endpaper, text is clean and spine is tight, sku U10B. read more
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