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Marianne Williamson is, arguably, the most visible expert on the Foundation for Inner Peace's "A Course in Miracles" -- a scripture-like text that, quite simply, aims to remove "the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance." Williamson reduces & rearticulates the message(s) from the "Course" into a language that is more accessible, concise, & personable... 

What Williamson manages to do quite well, however, is drive home the idea that love is everywhere -- love is God -- love is real -- and that living a life in the absence of love makes for an unhappy, unrewarding, & empty life... 

Williamson (and, by extension, the "Course") bandies around the words "Love", "God", "Atonement", "Forgiveness", and the like w/ no real obvious connection to their religious or secular definitions, so be prepared for a shifting of your vocabulary paradigm... 

This book is rich w/ insight, observation, and advice and, as such, you may need to re-read particular passages -- perhaps even the entire book -- if you wish to take away all that the book offers... 

We are here to love and love is the one thing that heals, gives us joy, brings us together, and creates a life that feels worth living... 

It has taken me a long time to beleve in the Spirit - my mother was screwed over by a priest after my father ran away - he wa a user too - mostly booze - but some sleeping pills too - but I think even though I have been through it - and now hav been fired i have the courage to change and rearrange my life - I need to find a man to share it with too... 

A Return to Love is a heart opening book on a path of inner healing... 

I haven;t had much of a chance to read lately - I lost the new job I had - they say I stole - but they git no proof - and thn was booted out of the home I was staying in -I didn;t expect them to have a curfew but I didn;t do a thing wrong - I am a long time abuser and user - i am finally owning up to that - and an abusee too - people always love to abuse me - even my own family - well, i got a newjob and thought I was on the right track - I had lived like a prisoner in my own home for years - I never had my car avalible - my husband Rick woudl hide the keys - most of the times I was using during the day and it woudl be dangerous for me to drive - but I walk ed to the mall this one day and found a book - not this one - that changed my life -But this book was good - it talked about love and how we hold it in our hearts - there was alot I didn;t understand - some of the sections were missing - i got it from a used free book shop - but what i did read and could understand - casue alot of it is mumbo jumbo - I think is helpful... 

Outstanding book... 

Only Love Is Real...