Where is the love? Pick up a newspaper and you confront the catastrophic failure of love—divorce, litigation, and social bitterness that humanity has learned to live with. Author Deepak Chopra says that although no one can say where love went, it’s a dangerous sign that we are surrounded by so many images pretending to be love. In his book The Path to Love, Chopra points to the belief in separation, dualistic thinking, and a disconnection from heart energy as the culprits in forgetting the power and magic of love. Offering insights from Vedic texts, decades of his experience, and culled stories from both couples and singles, Chopra examines the cruel consequences of dualistic thinking and the inability to see through the heart—the seat of non-judgment, love, and the blending of the upper and lower chakras. He also shows readers how spiritual insights can be used successfully to navigate the seven stages of love: attraction, infatuation, courtship, intimacy, surrender, passion, and ecstasy—as well as the brain chemistry behind love and pleasure. Some of the philosophical and inspirational knowledge Chopra shares include:

• The heart center is meant to feel open and relaxed. Before you can receive any profound spiritual insights, this openness must exist. Contraction, fear, tightness all keep spirit from entering you. In truth, spirit doesn’t enter, sin it is always there. But making contact with it is like being penetrated with light and insight; this is what we call the flow of love.
• If you examine any negative trait you insist is present in another person, you will find the same trait hiding in yourself. The more you deny this trait, the more strongly you will have to project it. Thus if you habitually defend yourself before being accused, you feel guilty. That guilt needs to be faced in order to stop the projection.
• The love you seek is seeking you at this moment. Your longing, your deep fantasies about being loved are mere shadows of this melting sweetness that makes spirit want to love you. Be honest about your seeking, and be alert to the moments when love is showing itself to you. You are the only means that love has for conquering its opposition; therefore, you are infinitely precious in the eyes of spirit.

Combining Eastern wisdom with Western pragmatism, The Path to Love will show you how to:

• Recognize and remove obstacles we put in the way to our own happiness
• Navigate the seven stages of love through Spirit
• Transform our own lives and relationships, suffusing each day with depth and meaning, as well as romance and passion