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Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
What does healthy intimacy look like? How we do we keep the energy and passion alive in long-term relationships? What practices can help us forgive our partner when he or she has hurt us? How can we get a new relationship off to a strong and stable start? What do we do if we feel restless in a relationship or attracted to someone outside of our partner? These are just some...more
Hardcover, 144 pages
Published
August 9th 2011
by Parallax Press
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Readers familiar with Hanh's other work will likely find something helpful. Those not familiar with basic mediation and Buddhist tenants might fall by the wayside. Overall: simple and direct, heartfelt and quite satisfying, although I found the chapter "Sutra on the net of sensual love" to be out-of-place with the general focus.
Key Quotations:
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Inside each of us is a great being, someone peaceful, full of light, understanding, and compassion. This person carries a sword of understanding that cuts...more
Thich Nhat Hahn writes from the most lovely place of peace and love. This book is one that every person that is in a relationship, or would like to be in one that is healthy at some point, could benefit from. Some much of this book is about loving yourself. Loving enough to be accepting of yourself, see your feelings clearly and finding a way to nurture whatever it is that you do feel. There is no "wrong" feeling, but you must find the reason for them and the clarity in what they tell you about...more
"You have to learn how to be comfortable with yourself and focus on making your own home within. Once you have a spiritual path, you have a home. Once you can deal with your emotions and handle the difficulties of your daily life, then you have something to offer to another person. The other person has to do the same thing. Both people have to heal on their own so they feel at ease in themselves; then they can become a home for each other." - beautiful, simple truths that take a long time to lea...more
i only give it three compared to his other books. ok i bumped it to four. this was a fast read, which is good and bad i suppose. i wish it had a bit more about keeping love together after the long haul, and a bit less focus on sensual love, but it had a lot of great stuff he mentioned on retreat like watering the good seeds in your partner. of course, we should be doing that with everyone. i underlined a lot in this book.
Lucid reiteration of Buddhist principles.
If a piece of driftwood is stuck on the side of the river, then it stops. It can't continue and will not reach the ocean. It doesn't matter on which side of the river you are stuck, you're still stuck. Moving through the center, not attached to any shore, is called taking the middle way.
If a piece of driftwood is stuck on the side of the river, then it stops. It can't continue and will not reach the ocean. It doesn't matter on which side of the river you are stuck, you're still stuck. Moving through the center, not attached to any shore, is called taking the middle way.
Interpretations from the Dharmapada Sutra on Net of Sensual Love ... usually reserved for monastics, but applied to loving, spiritual relationships.
Are you interested in what makes a relationship work?
Try these words of wisdom.
Try these words of wisdom.
love the end parts. practical & magical.
Short and sweet, this is my first book by Thich Nhat Hanh, and I'm sure it won't be my last. He puts things in such a perfect, usable way. Looking forward to putting this into practice.
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Read this together with my partner and loved it! Highly recommended.
I was reading this book quite quickly and then at the last chapter, I put it down for quite some time. Yesterday, I just read the last chapter, and it was at a perfect moment when the lessons were absolutely relevant.
I am a big fan of Anthony DeMello and came across books by Thich Nhat Hanh yesterday at the bookstore.
Decided to start with his latest work.
Decided to start with his latest work.
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Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist who now lives in southwest France where he was in exile for many years.
Born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Thích Nhất Hạnh joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thiền) monastery at the age of 16, and studied Buddhism as a novitiate. Upon his ordination as a monk in 1949, he assumed the Dharma name Thích Nhất Hạnh. Thích is an honorary...more
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Born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Thích Nhất Hạnh joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thiền) monastery at the age of 16, and studied Buddhism as a novitiate. Upon his ordination as a monk in 1949, he assumed the Dharma name Thích Nhất Hạnh. Thích is an honorary...more
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