Finding Love Everywhere

This beautiful and inspirational book is a real gem in the simplicity and directness of its message of love in action, echoing in tone the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafiz. The five parts consist of text and poems on looking for love, loving others as yourself, loving when it's difficult, letting life love you, and being the presence of love. The author himself resolved to become the most loving person he could be, which is how he eventually found love, taking the Course in Miracles in along the way and following the advice of Tom Carpenter by making himself spontaneously available to the love of God. For him, St Francis of Assisi was a man who found love everywhere and Nelson Mandela an example of love-centred leadership.

There are too many memorable poems to mention but I especially loved Black Madonna, Butterflies, White Feathers, Start of Something Wonderful (doing nothing/ in its purest form/ is receptivity), Three Angels, A New Kind of Politics (where leaders who dare to love the most always win the majority vote), Love's Instrument and Half a Poem (every poem is finished off/ in the heart, because poetry is,/ in essence, listening to the/ Voice of Love). Love is the very fabric of life, as Tom Carpenter states: 'there would be no life without love.' Every day we can be a loving presence in the world and our spiritual practice is nothing other than love-in-action. If you only buy one book from this section, this should be it.