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When all your desires are distilled, you will cast just two votes: To love more, and be happy.

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Hafez (the pseudonym of Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī) was a fourteenth-century Persian poet. His still-celebrated collection of lyric and mystic poems is generally considered the pinnacle of Persian literature, often focusing on divine love, the joys of wine, and religious hypocrisy.

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The Four Loves

A repackaged edition of the revered author’s classic work—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series. C.S.

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The Road to Character

With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways.

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Cultivating Compassion

How to love yourself and others.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness

Mother Teresa. The Dalai Lama. Nelson Mandela. Gandhi. Some admire such figures from afar and think, "How special they are; I could never be like that." But, as John Makransky has learned, the power of real and enduring love lies within every one of us.

John Makransky, Lama Surya Das (foreword)

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Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh

bell hooks meets with Thich Nhat Hanh to ask: How do we build a community of love?

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The Power of Real Love: A Conversation with Sharon Salzberg and bell hooks

How do we bring more love into our lives? Sharon Salzberg and bell hooks sat down with Lion’s Roar’s Melvin McLeod for a special discussion on love in celebration of Salzberg’s book, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection.

Bell Hooks, Sharon Salzberg and Melvin McLeod

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Toward a Worldwide Culture of Love

The practice of love, says bell hooks, is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. She traces her thirty-year meditation on love, power, and Buddhism, and concludes it is only love that transforms our personal relationships and heals the wounds of oppression.

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Bell Hooks in Conversation with Sharon Salzberg: What Is Love?

In celebration of her new book, “Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection,” Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg joined bell hooks and Lion’s Roar’s Melvin McLeod for a recent conversation at JCC Manhattan.

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The Practice of Love

For many of us, opening our hearts to ourselves may be the hardest part of the path. John Welwood on how and why meditation helped him do it—unconditionally.

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The Perfect Love We Seek, the Imperfect Love We Live

Love is what we long to receive and to give, yet our intimate relationships are conflicted and often painful. The late psychologist John Welwood looks at the difference between absolute and relative love, and the wound within each of us that no other can heal.

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