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If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that love is neither giving nor receiving — it is participating.

By Paulo Coelho
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Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author of internationally bestselling inspirational stories of spiritual- and self-awakening. His best-known work, The Alchemist, has been translated into over sixty-five languages.

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The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

We all yearn for intimacy, but we avoid it. We want it badly, but we often run from it. At some deep level we sense that we have a profound need for intimacy, but we are afraid to go there. Why? We avoid intimacy because having intimacy means exposing our secrets.

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Matthew Kelly
2015
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Make Your Life Purpose Invulnerable to Heartbreak and Frustration | don Jose Ruiz

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don Jose Ruiz
2017
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Why Self Love Matters: We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve

Everyone deserves to experience the richness of love unmarred by disappointment, unmet expectations, and judgment. This type of love is best found in yourself first before seeking it out from others.

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Corrina Horne
2021
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Why Do So Many People Respond Negatively to Being Loved?

Love is not only difficult to find, but is even more challenging for many people to accept and tolerate.

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Robert Firestone
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What Does It Mean to Dare to Love?

Author Tamsen Firestone talks about how people can challenge themselves when it comes to love.

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2018
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Why Can’t I Let Love In?

In the early months of every intimate relationship, the new partners of people-who-can’t-take-love-in feel they have scored a great person, someone who gives easily but doesn’t seem to require much in return.

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Randi Gunther
2014
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The Hidden Reasons We Don’t Let Love In

The cliché is true: You have to love yourself first.

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John Amodeo
2015
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Daring to Love: Move Beyond Fear of Intimacy, Embrace Vulnerability, and Create Lasting Connection

When it comes to finding love, are you standing in your own way? Daring to Love will help you identify the internal barriers that cause you to sabotage your love life, open yourself up to vulnerability, and build the intimate, lasting relationship you truly desire.

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Tamsen Firestone, Robert Firestone
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The Emotion Code: How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love, and Happiness (Updated and Expanded Edition)

In this newly revised and expanded edition of The Emotion Code, renowned holistic physician and lecturer Dr. Bradley Nelson skillfully lays bare the inner workings of the subconscious mind.

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Bradley Nelson, Tony Robbins (foreword)
2019
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Worthy of Love: Meditations on Loving Ourselves and Others

In this beautifully written meditation book, bestselling author Karen Casey sensitively examines the challenges of love: the love we give friends, family, a lover, even ourselves. Worthy of Love offers 52 (weekly) inspiring quotes and short readings for those who struggle to love and be loved.

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Karen Casey
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