The Book of Love

My personal critria for a good book is if I want to keep reading it with a highlighter and pen in hand. This is that kind of book.
Overall reaction = 10 (top score)
Writing = 10 (top score)
This book is "excellent" compared to other competitors in the same category.

2003 Benjamin Franklin Award Book Reviewer

This author is genuine and helps one find the way to being a truly loving human being.

Dr. Bernie Siegel, Author of Love, Medicine and Miracles and Prescriptions for Living

Emotions such as anger, resentment and hatred manifest themselves in the body as sickness. The Book of Love provides powerful insights to heal the human spirit to achieve optimal health and well-being, which is essential if we ever hope to achieve optimal health and well-being. Healthcare in the 21st century will focus on the prevention of sickness and disease.

Dr. Peter A. Viteritti, Northboro MA

I enjoyed your book tremendously.

Elsa Holstrom

If you're really interested in peace and in stopping the violence in our world, then you should read this book. I like this book because it makes it so easy to understand how to be a more loving being.

Greta Gunther

Karen, I don't know how you feel, but for me "guilt" has got to be the greatest culprit that most people use to hold themselves back from greater peace and any degree of happiness. The Ron Kovic story really drives home with poignancy guilt's "secret wish to kill yourself" them that you demonstrate. Your book is a great gift to us...Thanks.

Jack Roddy

I love this book. It's so beautiful, so clear, so crisp, so well organized. It's just fantastic.

Jill Geller

...This is the kind of self-help book for which there is a large audience. The author has read widely and speaks her fruth from the place of her own experience. While the spiritual overlay here is more metaphysical and New Thought, with healthy doses of A Course In Miracles, it always feels inclusive and the material seems directed to the big middle of seekers. I think this is a terrific book and one of the best of the books I've been asked to review.

Joe Durepos, Writer's Digest Book Award Evaluator

I've been meaning to write you to thank you for writing The Book of Love. It's enlightening and refreshing. The book really makes you stop and think about how we think about love. I've found your exercises in love to be very helpful in my daily life -- especially the one where you say to yourself "I could see peace instead of this." I have introduced that to my family and have found myself saying it out loud in front of my son. I could go on and on about this book....I think it should be a prerequisite for people to read before they enter into a relationship, get married, have children, etc.

Lita Motroni

What Karen Bentley has to say about how we love and where it will lead us makes sense. My mind has been opened.

Liz Thompson

I finished your book and loved it! Congratulations, Karen, it certainly deserves every possible praise and success! I keep sending you best wishes for Oprah to call, because that seems to be what you want. But you do not need Oprah to call!

Maria Celeste Maia

This truly is a book I will read again and cherish. The author totally convinced me that my idea of love was really more ego-based than heartfelt, and that my ego was doing nothing to bring me the happiness I seek. The Book of Love is really about being the most spiritually evolved humans we can be, and of course the end result of that being totally loving and harmless to others.

Marie Jones

I really loved your book. This is a winner. It's really, really good. I was really moved by it, and I want to read it a second time.

Marj Reppert

This is a practical love lesson for anyone who needs it.

Neil Sumner

Everyone in the world is searching for true and lasting happiness. Most are looking for love in all the wrong places. How do we find it? Karen Bentley's new book, The Book of Love, gives the reader a new framework for thinking that will lead them to the awareness of the real Love that lies at the core of everyone's being.

Robert and Mary Stoelting

The Book of Love deals with a very important topic, namely love and spirituality, which I feel is one of the major antidotes to a divided world.

Samuel P. Oliner, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Project Director, The Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute

The Book of Love has helped me to see nmot onmly that I can extend love but than I can also choose to live in harmlessness. This is not something I had really ever looked at beofre. Not only to avoid attack -- but to avoid responding to attack -- is to live harmlessly. Thank yo for this most important insight.

Steve Whitson

This book is like the yellow brick road to enlightenment. It's simple. It's innocent. And it's inspiring. Karen Bentley makes an enlightened way of life practical and doable. She takes the perfectly ordinary and makes it perfectly extraordinary. It's basically around joining in the ordinary and allowit it to open to love. This allows us to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to earth, thought by thought, moment by moment. Her authenticity shnes through the material.

Vicki Poppe

I enjoyed reading The Book of Love and found it very spiritual and thought-provoking. Well done!

Yolande Brodeur

10 Radiant Ideas

Riveting God stuff that makes you seriously think about your basic beliefs. I especially like the idea that God is love and only love and does not judge or punish us. The last chapter includes a complete reinterpretation of the Lord's Prayer.

Anonymous Reader

This book is the clearest, most concise explanation of A Course In Miracles I have ever read. Bentley has the rare ability to discuss complex ideas in a way that makes them easy to understand and consider. This book would appeal to anyone who desires exposure to an alternative view about God, but without attachment to any religion. It definitely opens your mind to a new way of thinking.

Anonymous Reader

10 Radiant Ideas will grab your attention and hold it from the first page to the last...To meet Karen is to experience an energetic presence that pulls you into her vitality and love. While reading her book, I felt as though I were with her in person, interacting with deep conversation about life and its meaning. Karen's writing is intensley personal...As I got deeper into her book, I realized that I had underlined something on almost every page....

John Nagy, Chairman of The Quest Foundation

I was swept away by grace as I read Karen Bentley's wonderful book, 10 Radiant Ideas. Not only are these ideas radiant but they sparkle with the clarity of a diamong as they reflect the Truth with shimmering simplicity.

Maureen Mueller

Karen Bentley cuts through the confusion and makes complex Course ideas very easy to understand. It's a gem.

Mo Jessup

This book very simply and with clear examples explains A Course In Miracles (ACIM) in a language you can understand. I enjoyed the format and the author's writing style. I had previously tried to read other books, including the text of A Course In Miracles itself, and found them very technical and hard to understand.

Many people would define this book as "New Age." I found it to be pretty down to earth, descriving a phillosophy or a way of thinking that could be used in whole or in part no matter what your religious beliefs. The author asks you to merely consider the ideas she presents, to try them on and see if they ring tro for you and fit what you want for your life.

The book is only just over 100 pages, but it really is a great introduction. The bak of the book includes sites for ACIM and a lsit of recommended ACIM authors and their books.

I may adopt some of the ACIM ways of thinking...or I may not...but I can tell you that AI felt soo good, soo calmn and peaceful and filled with an experience of God's love for me after reading this book. I read it just a few days ago, underlined and highlighted much of it, and then read it again really slowly today, just to let it sink in deeper.

If you are a seeker looking to explore a different way of thinking than what you currently have, you will probably like it. If you aren't really open to new ideas, then the "10 Radiant Ideas" won't be too attractive to you. Nevertheless, I think it's a great book, and the author succeeded at her goal: To explain ACIM to someone totally unfamiliar with it, and to do it in a way that gives the reader a real sense of wha tit might be like to believe in this way.

Ms. O. Khannah-Brown

Karen, I read your fabulous book, and it is truly an amazing work.

Peggy Munson

Why don't we see the Kingdom of Heaven? We don't see it because we are in it. Heaven is within. We are looking without from Heaven and haven't seen it because it is within. Karen Bentley's book, 10 Radiant Ideas, makes it clear that we have been mistaken in our thinking and need only change our minds.

Robert Leroy, Chairman of Open Doors

An uplifting and inspiring work.

Robin Quinn

The Love Seminar

God bless you.

Anonymous

I really liked all the interactive demonstrations. They made me laugh and were very useful to me.

Brian Nash

Words like love, forgiveness and peace have a new meaning for me now. I was deeply touched by this powerful seminar.

David Harte

You inspired me to rise above some pettiness. Thank you.

Denise Correlle

To say that "things happen for a reason" is an understatement in this case. Your words were what I call "my other person" talking to me. You gave me validation in so many of the thoughts and feelings that I have been experiencing as I get older and hopefully wiser. I love the way you speak -- sounds corny, but your voice is so soothing and assured, while maintaining a very professional, yet caring demeanor. Karen, I'm very happy to have met you.

Donna R.

In this seminar you can learn the basics of what is important in life and why.

Evelyn Guillette

I am a better man for having taken it.

John D.

A really powerful seminar that inspired me.

Kim Loughlin

This seminar was well-presented and gave a good balance of talking, reading, exchanging ideas with other people,and doing experientials to bring it to the personal level.

Lerna

Your passion was contagious, and I applaud it. A succinct and graceful presentation.

Linda Pesce

Thank you. I came to a new awareness of love and foriveness. I highly recommend her seminar to anyone.

Linda Riddell

For me one of the best part was the exercise in gratitude. It was very uplifting to find something to be grateful about with all the people who piss you off.

MaryAnn Trapani

I loved the way you pointed out radical, non-compromising spiritual ideas. It also meant alot to me to hear you speak of how we must go through these shifts alone, with the Holy Spirit as our only friend at times. I loved your little stories and the way you usually put yourself in the character of the one who had it wrong.

Nancy Wiesner

The one concept of attack and non-attack was the most useful to me. I have not thought about love this way before.

Paul O'Donnell

Karen brings a wonderful lightness and joyful quality to her work. I am very grateful to have taken part in her workshop.

Peter Phippen

I deeply recommend this seminar to everyone on who is on a spiritual path and who aspires to greater happiness, clarity and fulfillment.

Virginia Mather