GYre0ePJhZ Posted May 10, 2014 Posted May 10, 2014 Subtitled, "Letting Love in Safely and Showing it Recklessly". I got this book from my step-mom as a birthday present, and I want to share some thoughts I have about it. I have only read the back-cover and the introduction as of yet. Maybe I will read more if I feel like it. In the rest of this post I first want to provide information about the author, and then I will quote two sentences of his before I give my thoughts about it. About the Author: David Richo, PhD, MFT, is a teacher, workshop leader, and psychotherapist in Santa Barbara and San Francisci, California. He combines Jungian, Buddhist, and mythic perspectives in his work. Some red flags appear already to me, but I don't want to spend time on this for now. From the back-cover: We were made to love and be loved. It’s nothing other than the purposes of our lives – but knowing that doesn’t make it easy to do. I ask whether the proposition in the first sentence is true. As this is what he assumes before he starts to teach how to be an adult in love I think it is very important to investigate it. Maybe he argues for this assumption in the book, but I'm feeling lazy. I see two ways to interpret this, one that I think is false and another that I think is arguable. The false. This life purpose of loving and being loved is something bestowed upon us from the outside. For example from the Abrahamic religions, where every person gets this purpose of loving and being loved given through being created in God’s picture. AKA, this is how God made humans, (endofstorynoquestionsaskedthankyoubyebye) The arguable. Life purpose is not something granted from others, but something that is created by every individual. Every individual who successfully create their own purpose in life find that to love and be loved is it. I'm not totally convinced by the second argument myself. "Successfully" is sort of vague for one, but I am curious what you think of it so do let me know
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