How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships by Lodro Rinzler (PDF)

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How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People) is a smart, hip guide for spiritual seekers who want to experience more love and stability in all forms of relationships. Told from the unique vantage points of authors Meggan Watterson and Lodro Rinzler, this book explores staying anchored in the foundation of self-love as you navigate the natural (and often stormy) cycle of a relationship. Their dual perspectives as teachers and scholars of Christian mysticism and Buddhism make for a rich and fascinating dialogue that covers everything from sex, self-worth, falling in (and out of) love, deep friendships, to breakups—and how to maintain an open heart through it all. At its core, this book is about learning to love yourself no matter what. Meggan and Lodro suggest that you are worthy of love, both self-love and the love of others. They aren’t experts on how to get that man or lady to fall in love with you, nor are they experts on how to have “the perfect relationship.” They are spiritual teachers who know that relationships have a life of their own, and can speak to the human element of what it means to experience them fully. In the process, they share deeply personal, revealing, honest anecdotes and spiritual practices to assist you with the inevitable ebbs and flow of love in all its manifestations.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “How to Love Yourself is one of the best books I’ve read on the topic of relationships. This book translates life-changing spiritual principles in a hip and relevant way. Meggan and Lodro offer the most treasured gift; a pathway to learn to love yourself no matter what. I recommend this book to anyone ready to give, receive, and embody love.”— Gabrielle Bernstein, New York Times best-selling author of Miracles Now?”This is a new kind of self-help book. There is no perfection and pontificating here—just the beautiful, messy, and wonderful truth about love, shared with great generosity. While both authors are deeply steeped in their mutual wisdom traditions, their greatest teachings are in the personal stories they share. No matter what is (or isn’t) happening in your life, Lodro and Meggan help you to see that your whole life is your love life.”— Susan Piver, New York Times best-selling author of The Wisdom of a Broken Heart and Start Here Now”How to Love Yourself is an illuminating look at love—a quality hard to figure out even as we are taught that it makes the world go ‘round. The book is wise, useful, and also great fun to read. Lodro, from his long-term Buddhist practice, and Meggan, with her Christian mystic background, offer different ways of viewing love as the force that frees us to truly be ourselves, and be happy.”— Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness “The great thing about Lodro and Meggan writing a book about love is that you get perspectives from both a down-to-earth Buddhist dude, and a hot female mystic—AND!—double the jokes and love stories. The result is a lot of truth and modern wisdom on how to expand your capacity to love—in suffering, in sex, in separation, in spirit, in your very real life that could always be filled with more love.”— Danielle LaPorte, New York Times best-selling author of The Desire Map and The Fire Starter Sessions”I so wish I had read this book when I was 18 and just starting out in the dating world. It would have saved me a lot of trouble and a boatload of Kleenex. Meggan and Lodro are not only totally sane in their approach to relationships, they’re also practical and hilarious. This page-turner will most assuredly crack you up, but more importantly, it will ease your path to finding the love of your life, whether that turns out to be someone else or the person staring back at you when you look in the mirror.”— Kate Northrup, best-selling author of Money, A Love Story”I am so grateful the universe shifted and brought both Meggan and Lodro together to share this sacred work. Loving yourself is no easy task but it’s the most rewarding lesson. How To Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People) is a manual that helps you dive deep into the cave of your own heart so you can become your own beloved. This step-by-step guide helps you crack open the most auspicious part of you so that you can walk safely in love. If you are ready to courageously leap out of fear and into unconditional love, this is the book for you.”— Kyle Gray, best-selling author of Angel Prayers?”Meggan Watterson and Lodro Rinzler have written a modern-day spiritual ‘he said, she said’ as they guide us along the path to loving ourselves fiercely, ultimately giving way to loving others and being loved. Intimate, entertaining, provocative, and revealing, How To Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People) is for all seekers of self-love and self-acceptance. Give your heart a gift and immerse yourself in the wisdom and lessons this book has to offer—you just may find love where you least expect it.”— Nancy Levin, best-selling author of Jump . . . And Your Life Will Appear”How To Love Yourself (And Sometimes Other People) has real modern gems in it, and the down-to-earth and complementary voices of its authors, Meggan and Lodro—both young experts in their own spiritual fields—leaves you feeling like they are totally present with you as you read these pages. What really helps us to navigate love is a good conversation with trusted friends, friends who don’t judge us, friends who actually know what they are talking about. Meggan and Lodro both show their ability to be those friends, to themselves, to each other, and to us as we read along.”— Ethan Nichtern, author of The Road Home”Looking for love? Well, stop. Seriously, the search is over. Meggan and Lodro remind us that love is right here, within. There’s nowhere we need to go or some better version of ourself we need to become. How To Love Yourself is that slap to the forehead that we all can use. This beautiful gem reminds us that we are love and therefore we don’t need to wait for a partner to find love. We can get that party started right now––and then a partner can swing in and join us on this wild adventure of loving ourselves. No stress. No expectations. Just love.”— Kris Carr, New York Times best-selling author of Crazy Sexy Diet and Crazy Sexy Kitchen About the Author Lodro Rinzler is a teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage and the author of five books on meditation including the best-selling The Buddha Walks into a Bar… and the award-winning Walk Like a Buddha. Over the last 14 years he has taught numerous workshops at meditation centers, businesses, and college campuses throughout North America. Lodro’s columns appear regularly on the Huffington Post, Marie Claire, and Elephant Journal and he has been featured on WNYC, WBUR, FOX, the CBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Fast Company. He is the founder of the Institute for Compassionate Leadership, an authentic leadership training organization, and lives in Brooklyn with his dog Tillie and his cat Justin Bieber. Website: www.lodrorinzler.comMeggan Watterson is an author, international speaker, and Harvard-trained scholar of the divine feminine who inspires seekers to live from the audacity and authenticity of the voice of their soul. Her first book with Hay House titled REVEAL: A Sacred Manual for Getting Spiritually Naked is described as “ignited prayer” by Eve Ensler, “life-changing” by Dr. Christiane Northup, and “a blessing to the world,” by Gabrielle Bernstein. She has a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. Website: www.megganwatterson.com

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Honestly I’m not sure how I feel about this book. It’s not a bad thing and it’s not a stellar book. What I get most from this book is basic truce we’ve heard a billion times and yet we ignore them. Why do we ignore them? Advertisers tell us we need to ignore them. They all have a steak to play in our relationships, but not for our highest and greatest good. The day teach us to look without instead of looking within.Years ago I was sitting in a cracker barrel and I was listening to a guy interviewing another guy to join his church. He made a simple comment which became a simple truth which is also present in this book. The guy doing the interview had divorced his first wife and then took time to re-examine that relationship. He’s remarried and is quite happy after 10 years. Jis wife remarried three times and is still living the same relationship.Here the two authors talk about their relationships and how they examined each one after they were done. If you listen to their stories as they go through the relationships and they re-examine them while talking to us we see where we do the exact same things they do. How many times have we not stopped to listen to our partners. how many times have we told our partners they complete us?Here the authors give you simple easy tips and steps to go through to help you learn to love yourself. here’s where I would like to have gone far more in depth. We’re given meditations and we’re giving real-life examples. However, there’s no in-depth guidance. This is what I believe was missing from the book. I believe the real word examples did they gave us are the lessons. Yet I still think some of them need to be more clearly defined as steps on how to love yourself. I did learn a lot from the book and I enjoyed it. I will still recommend it to people and probably read other books about these authors.

⭐Never have I found a book so aligned with the balance between seeking the spiritually divine and finding love on this plane. I loved the back and forth between Meggan and Lodro. The chapters are nicely broken up into relevant categories that will resonate with you, sprinkled with personal stories from the authors. I highly recommend.

⭐I just be too hardhearted for this kind of advice. 10 more words are needed too close this session. Oops!

⭐If you’re somebody has been sad for a long time, now knowing why, this book is for you. If you’re one person who always gives of yourself to help others, to projects, to causes, yet you find there is a hollow place inside of you and you don’t know where it’s coming from, this book is for you. If you feel that you are a good person who always strives to be your best, to be considerate of others, yet you can’t seem to have lost luck in romantic love, then get a hold of copy of this book. This book is more than just words. It is a product of lots of love for those of us who can’t seem to understand why the world seems to have forgotten to give us a bit back for all the things we’ve given, sacrificed. In its pages, you’ll know why.

⭐Who wouldn’t benefit from hearing about how to love themselves? I love this book. Simply put. I’m recently going through a break up and it has comforted my soul. It’s like a conversation with each of the authors; one author shares their piece of each chapter’s subject, like how to love being single, and then the other author shares their experience and nugget of understanding. The only thing I do not like about it is the chapters relatively short and I’d love to hear more of what these authors think-however I could read their other books if I want more. Both are amazing people who are easy for me, a 29 year old male, to relate with.

⭐While this book is good book to read.I really like the fact that it’s written by a man and a women.However this book is more for people who are single rather then in a relationship such as myself.It gives great advice on how to love yourself before loving another.and the authors in the beginning of the book mentioned what happened to them when they didn’t love themselves right away and became very dependent in the relationships they had been in.After awhile they learned to love themselves more and became independent.I highly recommed reading this book if you are single and have fears about being in a relationship again and being dependent in a relationship as well.

⭐This book came to me during a trying time in my life. It’s beautifully written, impeccably raw, and challenges the beliefs we have in life about what love looks like, and how to love. I’ve given my copy to friends and family to enjoy, and have enjoyed watching it pass hands and spark conversations among my loved ones about how to become better at loving. Highly recommend.

⭐I am going through a very bad break up. Not because I hate the person or that I want to exact revenge but because I have all this pain inside me and I do not know what to do with it.Whilst this book does not answer every question but it does give me food for thought. The journey to recovery is ultimately different for everyone of us but at least this book helped me ease some of the pain.For that I am thankful.

⭐I absolutely love… LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. Very wise, very profound, easily relate to it, to the themes. Find myself writing down little notes of important sentences, stopping reading and just saying “wow” and “thank you”. I came across this book by accident and pre ordered it. It turns out it is exactly the right thing at exactly the right time… serrendipitous.

⭐Gosh I love this book!! I can’t put it down. i started reading it as I am also publishing a book on spiritual relationships with Hay House soon…so I was only going to have a quick glimpse…well I ended up buying copies for people I know. Its such a good process of how to love yourself, how to call in a partner without losing yourself, conscious dating, how to create a spiritual relationship together…brilliant stuff! I love the way the two authors weave their stories and guidance. Yes, it is an all-round YES! If you are calling in great love, or wanting to dedicate your existing relationship to a greater love…this is the book for you.

⭐Having read and loved the Buddha books by Lodro Rinzler, i was really looking forward to reading this book. I must admit that I was not that impressed especially with Megan Watterson’s contribution.Total waste of money!

⭐I’ve only really just started the book but so far so good. I know it is going to be of value. I can already tell.

⭐Wasn’t what I was expecting from reading about the book in the description. Didn’t get much from it overall and didn’t really enjoy the writing style.

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