It is a bold and masterful inquiry into what two people really are and how we might become, while still on earth, the angels who reside within us. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published February 8th by Simon Schuster first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about Enchanted Love , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Mar 28, Carole A. Admittedly, this particular tome was a bit of a struggle to stick with at first.
After three years of self-imposed exile from relationships, I felt ready to attract someone suitable and willing to build a holy relationship with me Now, Marianne's work usually has me at hello, but she took an odd angle with Enchanted Love that had me cocking my head a bit. I remember thinking, "Ah However, once I got over my insistence that she write the dang book my way - which, you know, is so very effective - I began to appreciate what Marianne envisioned as she wrote.
As I let go of my resistance, I warmed to this softer version of her voice, and began to appreciate the profound wisdom of her words. As such, the inner shift that had begun as I read Return to Love accelerated within my consciousness and became more polished. I began to see the soul of the man who I'd just met, and realized that the spiritual heart beating within his chest was also my own.
I realized that, after decades of only seeing the "wrong" types of men cross my radar, while simultaneously refusing to allow God to express itself through me in the scope of my relationships, I had indeed let go and healed.
I had emotionally and spiritually grown up. I could finally welcome God into my relationships God speaks with us in many forms, and Marianne is quintessentially the best at pulling us out of ourselves and showing us the Truth of who we are. Our only task is that we open and receive. I am so grateful that I have.
Jul 17, Deborah Chassee rated it it was amazing. Read this twice and used quotes from this book in my wedding ceremony. Sep 21, Meghan rated it it was ok. Normally I like Marianne Williamson's style of writing, but I was a little put-off by the setup of the book. The whole "conversation" piece of each chapter note - not only was there bits of a c Normally I like Marianne Williamson's style of writing, but I was a little put-off by the setup of the book. The whole "conversation" piece of each chapter note - not only was there bits of a conversation at the beginning of each chapter, there was also bits sprinkled throughout the chapters as well just didn't click with me.
I'm all for metaphors but I think she took this one a bit too far. A spaceship. In a book about love. However, the one redeeming quality of this book was the actual content of the chapters excluding, of course, the random conversations with the mystery man.
I enjoyed her explanations of the different kinds of love there are in this world and the idea that the type of love you need for a lasting and fulfilling relationship isn't always the romantic love you read about in books or see in movies; it's hard, it can hurt and it's a lot of work.
I think too many people confuse lust with love and forget that in order for a relationship to survive, you need to work to sustain an intimate love between one another.
All interesting points and Williamson expressed them wonderfully; I just couldn't get past her odd metaphors in this book. Sep 03, Erin rated it really liked it. I love everything she writes. I would give this 5 stars since she's able to put all my feelings, emotions, and dreams about romance into words, but there were a few parts that were even too sappy for me.
I'm glad I read it though, and I will keep it to read again someday when I'm in a relationship. It will help me remember what a gift it is to love someone and pray to see their innocence instead of all their faults.
Sep 27, Jacquetta rated it really liked it. I swam the seas, I traversed the coals, I died a thousand deaths for you. I found my way, I did, I did. But when I got there, you had fallen asleep. You had drunk their potions and I could not wake you.
I got there in time but your eyes were closed. Sep 04, Em rated it did not like it Shelves: not-recommended. I decided to quit reading this book with about 50 pages remaining.
It was my second go at trying to finish this book because I set it aside for a while a few weeks ago. In this book M. Lie back and I will swim you home. The stars will guide us, the waves will carry us and all our fear will slip away.
Surrender now. The sea caresses. The only lines that spoke to me came just 8 pages into the book. It suggested there comes a time when you need to stop doing the interior work alone and share your gifts with another soul.
Feb 07, Michaela Johnson rated it it was amazing. There are many books on my list, and very few that I can honestly say affected me in a profound way. EL is one of those books that I will be talking about for years to come. The images she creates and the concepts she draws to conclusion put great perspective on many of the things I've questioned with regards to relationships, love and most importantly the profound connection we draw with certain people.
For women, a must read Happy to say I've experienced Enchanted Love in my life, and grateful for the perspective the book offered on it. Jul 31, Elizabeth rated it really liked it. Enchanted Love is a series of short essays, prayers and poems around finding a sacred romantic love. Along the way, Williiamson describes judgemental relationships that fall far short of a sacred ideal.
She talks about sex, divorce, God, and the reflections of love on the greater world. Beneath all of her ideas are the concepts that we partner with others to work on our deepest wounds and that the love we exchange with each other is actually the love of the Divine.
The concepts contained within are deep and powerful, but Williamson explains them so clearly that it feels like reading a work of fiction. Jan 02, Keshia rated it really liked it Shelves: spirituality.
This book challenges you to approach relationships and love with more depth. Williamson likens love and relationships to enchantment--mystical, magical, spiritual and soulful love. I have a sense of completeness and happiness. I am filled with enthusiasm, understanding, balance, joy, and playfulness When I practice the Ageless Living Principles, I have the experience that I am living life, rather than life is living me. Why should we ever think that we have to settle for less?
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If you are ready for a healing, enlightening experience which will forever change the way you perceive and interrelate with others, this book may well be the catalyst. Tell us what you like and we'll recommend books you'll love. Sign up and get a free ebook! Table of Contents Excerpt Rave and Reviews. About The Book. If I have to choose between the sea or you, I take you, but with sadness. My favorite thing is to swim with you, to put the crown on my head and spray water in your face, to see you when you laugh like that, and pretend that I'm a little girl.
I love to see that look on your face when you register that I'm not I know, I know, they always ask that, "Who are you, exactly?
I will bring them back to you, my love. I will always bring them back to you I used to have a thing about mermaids. I felt I often met men who were lost at sea. I would meet them and lift them up, swim them home, and help them get their land legs back. But then I would have to go back into the ocean because I had only a fishtail. I envied the women with land legs, who got to greet these men upon their return and stay with them back on shore.
I pitied myself all the lonely nights I spent swimming alone in a tempestuous sea, the stars above my only companions between rendezvous with drowning sailors.
When she was a very young child, I read The Little Mermaid to my daughter many times, and it was way too close to home. The mermaid Ariel got a different ending than I always did. At the end of the story she got to stay with Prince Eric in his world, and she didn't have to be a mermaid anymore.
Something in me wanted that for myself. I would tell my Erics that I was going to do it their way, but then I found things so boring in their world. Yes, I wanted to be one of those land girls, but on another level I clearly didn't. I found I couldn't live without swimming, no matter how much I said otherwise. My tempestuous sea was a magical sea. And I didn't just enjoy the stars shining down on the ocean in the middle of the night; I finally realized I need them.
If I had to choose between Eric and the sea, I was clearly more drawn to the sea. I saw that I wasn't made for Eric's world, and what I really wanted was a man who could swim without my help. What I wanted was not a knight on a white horse. What I wanted was a knight on a dolphin, and ultimately that is what I found.
For I learned some things about the Erics of the world. They are bored here, too. They want enchanted swims in the middle of the night, and are as open to the mermaid who swims them out to sea as to a mermaid who swims them back to land. Forget The Little Mermaid.
Splash is a better movie. At the end of that one, the mermaid says to her love, "You know, I come from a much better place than this. There are just as many lights in my world and there is just as much excitement.
There's as much going on down there as up here. In fact, in truth, it's a more civilized environment. He flashed back to the moment when he'd met her. They had been children then, and their initial point of contact had not been earth, but sea. That was the point of their true and original connection, and its magic couldn't be exported to a sullied, weary, worldly environment. Enchantment is nontransferable. And so they both went back to sea. The mystic, and mystical lovers, learn this basic rule: Go where you're wanted.
Go where you belong. Mystical love, like mystical anything, exists in a different realm of consciousness than the one that dominates our daily lives. Emotional enchantment is conjured up, brought forth, and summoned from the underworld. It is not neurosis but mystical talent to know that and to know how to do it.
In every woman, there is a latent priestess with the ability to invoke that realm. Mermaids are a kind of sexual muse, singing of a higher, more subtle, more magical dimension of life and love. In the enchanted romantic sea, we all have the power to heal and be healed. Our love, in that place, is a temple garden.
Sex, in that place, is the door to the temple, and in that temple lies the power of God. That sacred dimension of romance is what lovers long for now: the magical space of an enchanted intimacy. Many of us have been practicing its ways, unbeknownst to ourselves, for years. Some women have been practicing magic while others were doing housework. Some men have been practicing magic while others were practicing the worldly routines that rob their time and sap their life force.
Some of us surrendered to the mystical waters that surround our earthly experience, and the surrender has at last turned out to be a blessing. There was a time when the sea creatures landed on earth; now the creatures of the earth are heading back to sea.
The enchanted lover -- a candidate for mastery of both earth and sea -- is rising up today in a creative swell. The reinvention of romantic love is our newest frontier, toward which our personal yearning is driving us in droves. There is another world beyond this one, which the mystically uninitiated simply cannot see. Their only response, were they to see a mermaid, would be to run some tests. Fishtails seem weird to them, but on the other hand, they don't see wings either.
In truth, they do not see at all. That is why they call love blind, for it is they who cannot see. There are some things that cannot be seen with earthly eyes. Enchanted love is one of them If you will hold my hand, then I will hold my breath and cast my fate in the direction of my heart.
I will put on hold my lesser dreams and reach for what is truly mine. Say you will, and I will buy my ticket for this ride. It will not be cheap, nor always smooth. But I don't care.
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