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  • Real Love

  • The Art of Mindful Connection
  • By: Sharon Salzberg
  • Narrated by: Sharon Salzberg
  • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (540 ratings)

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Real Love

By: Sharon Salzberg
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Publisher's summary

This program is read by the author.

The New York Times bestselling author and a central figure in the field of meditation, Sharon Salzberg, uses ancient Buddhist wisdom to redefine love and experience it in a more profound way.

You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to deserve all the love in the world.

Real Love is a creative tool kit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships with yourself, your partner, friends and family, and with life itself.

Sharon Salzberg, a leading expert in Lovingkindness meditation, encourages us to strip away layers of negative habits and obstacles, helping us to experience authentic love based on direct experience, rather than preconceptions. Across three sections, Sharon explains how to dispel cultural and emotional habits, and direct focused care and attention to recapture the essence of what it is to love and be loved.

With positive reflections and practices, Sharon teaches us how to shift the responsibilities of the love that we give and receive to rekindle the powerful healing force of true connection. By challenging myths perpetuated by popular culture, we can undo the limited definitions that reduce love to simply romance or passion, and give the heart a much needed tune-up to connect ourselves to the truest experience of love in our daily lives.

©2017 Sharon Salzberg (P)2017 Macmillan Audio
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Critic reviews

"Sharon Salzberg is the superstar of lovingkindness meditation. No one has done more to spread this powerful method for kindling universal love in our hearts." —Daniel Goleman



"Sharon Salzberg is an amazing teacher, and her words and inspiration in Real Love illuminate the way to love wisely, a treasure for your heart." —Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart

"Sharon's teachings on awakening a loving heart have touched students and readers around the world. In addition to her wonderful wisdom, Sharon's very presence inspires: She is generous and kind, through and through." —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

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Excellent! I love this book

Sharon helps me to reflect about love, about my relationships, to care more, to appreciate more

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Everything everywhere all at once

A book filled with messages and antidotes that share how love shines and can be seen in everything every day. Being aware brings peace, gratitude, and grace.

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Wonderful life changing book

My husband picked this book from the bookstore by the title thinking it would help with some marital issues we were having and it sat on the shelf. I got him hooked up with audible and this book and he started listening. At first he was not getting much because he was expecting a book about marriage, for me having been involved with self help for years already I just laughed and told him no silly, this is about YOU! And it clicked and he listened to the whole book and loved it! He has been working very hard to put Sharon's words to practice. And he is listening a second time now. Thank you Sharon for your words of wisdom and presenting them in a way that made sense to a hard headed man who had never read more than 2 pages of a self help book in his life.

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What a treasure!

This is a transformative book. The narration is slow and even but not without nuance. Real Love, really loved it!

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Spiritual cleansing

I loved it so much. I have listened to this bool over and over again. Each time it brings me back to center.

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Worth it

I enjoyed listening to this — while none of it is groundbreaking for people who have been exposed to mindfulness and/or Buddhist thought, Salzberg does bring a freshness to some of these ideas, allowing us to see them anew. A couple chapters felt perhaps a little gratuitous, but overall it was a comfort to come and listen to Salzburg’s voice reading the book.

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Love this book ….

Love it. Listen to it . Learn from it. Read it . Buy it . Get it . Healing from it.

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Awe

I was inspired with awe reading each chapter! If everyone in this world could grasp the understanding of what Sharon conveys so eloquently in this book, we would be able to accept both the good and bad with equanimity! Bravo Sharon!

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Real Love, Simple...but not easy <3

Sharon Salzberg holds the wisdom of ages, thank you for this book from the bottom of my heart. This is a must read for everyone, it was life changing for me.

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I really love Sharon Salzberg

A treasure, beautifully narrated by the author. Sharon S. always inspires me to keep practicing.

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