Love: What Life Is All About
by Leo F. Buscaglia
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Author: Leo F. BuscagliaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-08-27
ISBN: 0449911624
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: A fresh and integrated examination of what loving entails
Summary: 4 Stars
"Love" is a simple but profound and original little book that examines the role of personal responsibility in loving relationships and promotes offering unconditional love from a combined position of strength, humility and self-confidence. His beautifully inquisitive and spiritual perspective views loving as something intimately intertwined with living and learning, a theme he develops more fully in "Living, Loving, and Learning." Believing that love is a "learned phenomenon" (which led to his class on love at UCLA in the 1970s and ultimately, this book), Buscaglia's curiosity about the nature of love leads him to explore the writings of Erich Fromm, Abraham Maslow, Albert Schweitzer, Dag Hammarskjold, Mahatma Gandhi, Victor Frankl, Herbert Otto, the Old and New Biblical Testaments, the Koran, the Talmud, Buddhist and Hindu writings and to share his discoveries with us.Buscaglia examines the many aspects of living the loving life. He views love as having a twofold purpose: its main function is to help unfold our true selves, while at the same time helping others to become strong and perfect themselves as unique individuals (a theme similarly examined by Milton Mayeroff in his work "On Caring"). Buscaglia encourages his readers not to take rejection personally, but rather, to view rejection compassionately. He encourages focusing on self-development and growth rather than attempting to change or conform to another person's point of view. Rejecting the Hollywood Doris Day/Rock Hudson game of so-called love, he views love as an experimental process that requires risk and forgiveness.
Buscaglia's "Living, Loving, and Learning" is a thoughtful and original follow-up to "Love." The rest of his writings merely rehash the themes presented in these two works.
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