The Power of Love - by Fran Grace (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Power of Love is an inspiring chronicle of life-changing encounters, personal transformation and a vision of love that transcends the everyday definition. Silver Winner, 'Best Inspirational Books', IBPA's Benjamin Franklin Awards, 2019.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The Power of Love is an inspiring chronicle of life-changing encounters, personal transformation and a vision of love that transcends the everyday definition. Silver Winner, 'Best Inspirational Books', IBPA's Benjamin Franklin Awards, 2019. </p><p>The book is groundbreaking in its affirmation of love as a pathway for people of widely differing viewpoints. </p><p>Unexpectedly changed by love, Fran Grace went on a journey to learn more about its power to transform and heal. She interviewed renowned spiritual teachers, scientists, activists and artists, all chosen with the help of her spiritual teacher. Each encounter helped her overcome obstacles on her path.</p><p>The book gives readers a direct encounter with teachers of love in the world today. From diverse faiths and fields of work, they reveal the power of love to be the next frontier of global consciousness, suggesting many ways to uncover it and live it.</p><p>Includes photographs and unique contributions from: Dr. David R. and Susan Hawkins - H. H. the 17th Karmapa - Father Pavlos of Sinai - Llewellyn and Anat Vaughan-Lee - Mona Polacca and The International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers - Betty J. Eadie - Belvie Rooks & Dedan Gills - Dr. William and Jean Tiller - Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo - Huston Smith - Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev - Dr. Viktor Frankl (with grandson Alexander Vesely and Frankl family representative Mary Cimiluca) - Swami Chidatmananda.</p><p>Fran Grace's personal narrative is pulsed by her encounters with the pioneering teachers of love listed above, each of whom has a chapter that includes a brief biography, excerpts from their dialogue with the author, and her sense of how the encounter helped her to overcome the many obstacles to love.</p><p>The book takes readers on a journey into Buddhist and Hindu monasteries in India, an Indigenous Grandmothers' fire circle in the Black Hills, Mother Teresa's Homes for the Poor in Rome, Calcutta, and Tijuana, laboratory of a Stanford physicist, home of a Sufi sheikh, largest meditation hall in N. America, and a college classroom in California. She interviews those familiar with the stark Sinai desert, slave dungeons in Ghana, and near-death experiences. In the end, love is found to animate every moment of ordinary life.</p><p>Inspiring story of personal transformation. Compelling account of how the world is transformed through everyday acts of kindness. A rich resource of teachings on love, healing and compassion from a wide range of spiritual traditions, with a rare inside view of some of the world's most respected teachers. Includes index, biographical profiles, bibliography, endnotes.</p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>In these pages are told the simple secrets of love, and Fran's story to uncover and live them. This is the most precious offering we can make to life, to live this story, just as Fran has lived hers.--Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Golden Sufi Center</p><p>More than eighty years after Paul Brunton's famed <em>Search in Secret India, </em>we are blessed to have before us just such a book for our times, Fran Grace's splendid and moving <em>The Power of Love.</em> This is a book for a wide audience of seekers, travelers, and scholars. It promises to feed the heart and soul, even as it awakens the mind again and again.--Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University</p><p>This book is a masterpiece. Fran Grace takes us on an intimate journey revealing Love in all its facets, from the most sublime peaks of humankind's aspirations, to Love's omnipresence in the most wretched circumstances.--Nisha Manek, M.D., Fellow of the American College of Physicians</p><p>What matters is here!--Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Founder, Center for Action and Contemplation</p><p>This book is wonderful. It gives me hope. It's such a good look at what people from all walks of life go through on a spiritual path. 'Doc' is still teaching....--Susan J. Hawkins, President, The Institute for Spiritual Research (founded by Dr. David R. "Doc" Hawkins)</p><p>This book really pulls one in. It's a fascinating look at the all-important subject of 'Love, ' written from both a personal and an objective point of view--this is a rare combination! --Margaret Johnson, Ph.D., Board of Directors, C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California</p><p>This spiritual autobiography is very timely for a fractured world that needs to be reminded of the One in whom we all--regardless of religious affiliation--live and move and have our being. Love, truly, is the underlying path for all of us.--Wilkie Au, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University</p><p>In her beautifully written and embracing book, Fran Grace gifts her readers the opportunity to 'listen in' on her direct, personal interviews of spiritual leaders from around the world and many spiritual traditions. The world needs this book now!--Karen Derris, Ph.D., co-editor of <em>The Heart is Noble </em>and <em>Interconnected </em>by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa</p><p>What a beautiful gift Fran has given so us, sharing her journey both toward and through love. She reminds us that this is the only journey worth making! --Lorne Ladner, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, author of <em>The Lost Art of Compassion</em></p><p>Deeply honest and moving book. Readers from all walks of life will find what they need in these pages if they are looking for love.--Hilary Hart, author of <em>The Unknown She</em></p><p>This book gives an opportunity to think about who we are, where we come from, our identity, and how we have a connection to all of our relatives.... it shares teachings about the relationship that we have with one another and with people of different religions and different nations. It makes us think about, How do I relate to animal life--the four-legged, the winged, the water life? How are we going to love one another?--Mona Polacca, Havasupai-Hopi-Tewa member of The International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers</p><p>Very engaging and timely! A decade ago when Fran Grace began her research, almost no one could have predicted the polemic times we are currently experiencing, and thus the timing of the book is perfect, even as <em>The Power of Love </em>will surely be timeless in its influence.--David Taggart, creator of the global platform <em>Republic of Humanity</em></p><br>
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