Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

By Sharon Salzberg

In Real Love, one of the world's leading authorities on love tells us how to find it, how to nurture it, how to honor it—and most of all how to rethink it ... This book has the power to set your heart at peace.' —Susan Cain, author of Quiet

What is love? Sharon Salzberg believes that love is a powerful healing force for us all, and that modern associations with romance and adoration are limiting. By redefining love, she helps us to recognize our desire for happiness and enhance our connections with each other.

Real Love is a creative toolkit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that can 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. The book encourages us to strip away layers of negative habits and obstacles and to improve deeper connections, helping us to experience authentic love based on direct experience, rather than preconceptions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Release date: Jun 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781509803385

Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is one of the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Her forthcoming release, Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom, is set for release in April of 2023 from Flatiron Books. Her podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed six million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond.

Reviews for Real Love

[steve02476 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Well of course it’s a pretty gooey self-help book. I guess I knew it would be. I *like* Sharon Salzberg, based on some interviews I’ve seen and a few meditation lessons from her on the 10% app. She has a bit of a sense of humor that I like. But there’s not much of that on display here. I think there’s probably a lot of good stuff here, but nothing terribly surprising or new. And there’s a lot of quotes from dubious studies and “experts” that I’m getting pretty intolerant about. Oh well, I still *like* her and will be happy to hear her meditation advice, but I guess I’ll be skipping her self-help books. Might like to read her memoirs if she ever writes them up - I think she’s had an interesting life, and she’s willing to crack a smile when she’s being introspective.

Listened to the audiobook, read by the author.