Amazon Category:  Relationships Publisher: Swirl ISBN-10:  1845491599 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 148 Copyright: January 26, 2007 ISBN-13: 9781845491598 What is love? How can we be more loving in our relationships? How do we learn to trust again after love has let us down? Why do we find it so hard to receive love? Does love sometimes blind us to the truth? How do we know if our relationships are healthy? How do we mend a broken heart? In Love's Simple Truths, spiritual psychologists, Ross Heaven and Kathleen Charlotte provide answers to the "100 universal questions" asked about love by relationship clients; answers that are sometimes surprising, but always illuminating, insightful, and inspiring. Their advice is illustrated with the words of Jalalludin Rumi, the great Sufi mystic and poet of the heart. Excerpts from Rumi's works on love are arranged as meditations on the questions this book explores, so that readers can reflect on the insights they offer and learn more about what love means to them. Simple and straightforward, light yet profound, Love's Simple Truths shows us how to step onto The Path of The Heart and learn from the greatest teachers of all: ourselves and our lovers. Through them, we will discover all we need to know about who we really are and what we most want from love. Excerpt Love is the order of the universe and we are its atoms. It is the ocean and we are its drops… Through love the heavens are brilliant; Without love even suns and moons are eclipsed ~ Rumi Wherever and whenever people meet, it is never long before love and relationships – their problems and confusions, their bliss and beauty - is discussed. Love is as essential to us as air; a force that drives us all. It determines who we are, who we become, what we can achieve and, through this, how the world will evolve. It may even determine how long we live. Policy advisors to government now claim that the single strongest predictor of whether an individual will be alive in 10 years time is his answer now to the question: “Does somebody love you?” Psychologists have found links between love and self-esteem, mental, emotional, and physical well-being, and freedom from stress and anxiety. By sad contrast, those working with Romanian orphans have also found that children who are denied love can develop a “virtual black hole” where the emotional centres of their brains should be. Because of this, they can never grow up to be “fully human”. Studies like these show us the importance of love. And yet, so many questions remain unanswered. How many of us can say, for example, what love really is, or how to find it, nurture it, and learn from it so it can feed and enrich our souls? How do we make our relationships work so that they – and we - are healthy, happy, and whole? These are questions which scientists cannot answer. For that we need a Master who can teach us love’s simple truths and guide us onto the path of the heart. 2007 marks the 800th anniversary of one such Master. Sufi mystic, Jalaluddin Rumi was born on September 29 1207 in Eastern Persia. As a child he gained a reputation as a gifted spiritual teacher, and went on to establish the Sufi order of whirling dervishes known as The Path of the Master. During his life Rumi composed thousands of verses of mystical love poetry, the messages of which concern the notion of tahweed (unity), where, through love itself, we become one with “the Beloved”: the divine spirit of love within all of us. For Rumi, we are all divine and there is no problem we can face which does not have a solution, no question we can ask which does not have an answer, as long as we remember who and what we are. What, after all, is impossible to God? And the essence of God is love. To love well, therefore, may be our most important task as spiritual human beings, because only by this can we overcome our difficulties and distractions, and reconnect with our true selves. Through love we can make miracles. To find love, however, we must surrender to love, knowing that our partners are reflections of ourselves and that we are both capable of the deepest, most soulful, and intoxicating of loves – if we choose to see things this way. But let us start at the beginning…

Vision magazine, May 2007
This book's title really does speak for itself: it's an inspiring and unique self-help book. The questions in this book are genuine and have been asked by many ordinary people, like you and I.

I'm confident that everyone will find something they can use in this book, no matter how happy and settled they are, with questions such as 'how can I get my lover to hear me when we argue?' and 'how can we understand each other better?'. The authors answer these with clarity and profound wisdom, and as spiritual counsellors, you can rest assured that they really know what they are talking about.

Following each question and answer is an inspirational Rumi meditation. Rumi earned a reputation as a spiritual leader from a very early age and was a 'poet of the heart'... his main teachings being unity. The combination of work within the pages of this book offer you answers to the many questions you may have about love and will help you develop a greater understanding within your relationships. You will discover many pearls of wisdom.

This is a valuable self-development book and I'd highly recommend it to all


Tania Ahsan, Metro journalist
A beautiful book with a beautiful heart which holds up a mirror to our innermost selves and the truths that we are living.