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Reflections on the art of loving

In a series of illuminating essays, Aspects of Love explores the many things that make our love lives both a source of immense joy – and of unparalleled suffering.

The book takes us on a tour of some of what complicates our romantic lives and then presents ways of easing our anxieties and deepening our capacity for meaningful connection. Across reflections on desire, intimacy, ambivalence, compassion and friendship, the book helps us recognise why loving can feel so difficult at times – and why this seldom means we have gone wrong. Drawing on insights from philosophy, psychology and culture, we are presented with love’s essential truths and can begin to unravel our confusions around intimacy and attachment.
 
This book offers a hopeful path towards a kinder, more balanced understanding of what it means to love in a complex world.

Essays include:

  • The Ideals and Dangers of Love
  • Love as Compassion
  • Working at Love
  • Expansive Love

Hardback book | 120 pages | 181mm x 110mm

Customer Reviews (4.4 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Joseph B. ★★★★★

I didn't expect an essay collection to hit this hard, but the piece on how joy and suffering can live in the same relationship had me rereading paragraphs. It's not a how-to book, more like someone thinking out loud about love in a way that actually stuck with me.

Thomas V. ★★★★★

The essays here dive into love's full spectrum—joy and suffering treated with equal care—and each one left me sitting with my own thoughts long after I closed the book. Even the heavier pieces feel like a warm conversation, not a lecture.

Harper Z. ★★★★★

I picked this up expecting light reading, but the essays dig surprisingly deep into how joy and suffering tangle together in real relationships. The chapter on longing alone was worth the price, and I found myself underlining more lines than I have in years.

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