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Christopher D. O'Rear About thirty years ago, I had a profound encounter with a friend at a time in my life when I felt unloved and unlovable. That experience, outlined in …moreAbout thirty years ago, I had a profound encounter with a friend at a time in my life when I felt unloved and unlovable. That experience, outlined in the introduction to the book, was a huge turning point in my life and I began to try figure out how I could be a friend like that to others – both personally and professionally. In my professional practice of psychotherapy, I also began to realize that many people do not have deep and meaningful relationships with others because they have not learned or experienced the things necessary to make better connections. Subsequently, so many people feel overwhelmingly lonely despite being surrounded by people daily or connected to so many via the internet. I wanted to share things that I have learned through training as a therapist, my years of being a therapist, and my own personal journey that I thought would help people form more meaningful connections with themselves and with others. Ultimately, I see this connection with self and others as spiritual experience that connects us with the divine. My hope is that people will learn something of themselves in this book and learn how to better connect with others so that their relationships feel more meaningful. I hope that people will find this book one piece of a larger antidote for the epidemic of loneliness that so many people are experiencing.(less)
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Henri J.M. Nouwen
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

Miguel de Unamuno
“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.”
Miguel de Unamuno

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