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BOOKS BY DAVID RICHO
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How To Be An Adult
A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration
by David Richo, PhD -- Paulist Press, 1991
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This is a handbook on how to become an adult who is actualizing a strong adult ego and going beyond it to release the spiritual powers of the Self. It is the heroic journey of exploring our personal issues and finding ways to deal with our childhood wounds, our need to be more assertive, our fear, anger, and guilt. We then explore relationships and how to be happier in them: what intimacy is and how to increase it, the setting of boundaries, and our fears of closeness. Finally we look at our spirituality, unconditional love, and affirmations of wholeness.
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How To Be An Adult in Relationships
A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration
by David Richo, PhD -- Shambhala, 2000
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This book provides ideas and practices that help us as individuals and couples to build intimacy. We learn to address, process, and resolve relationship issues such as fears of abandonment or engulfment, anger, jealousy, infidelity, disillusionment, endings. We learn how to be intelligent about choosing partners and how to handle the phases we go through: romance, struggle, and commitment. We find out how mindfulness can help us be compassionate and no longer held back by the past. We discover the spiritual potential of loving. In Spanish: Como mantener relaciones estables y duraderas (Amat: Barcelona)
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How to Become Defense-Less and Resource-Full
by David Richo, PhD --
Paulist Press, 1997
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We all construct walls so that people will not
get too close or love us too much. We can learn ways to let love through or in,
and to approach someone who fears our love. There are techniques that can
release the scared ego’s hold-outs and hide-outs. We enter gently into the
jungle of fear about love, loss, aloneness, abandonment, engulfment, etc. We
become heroically defenseless enough to find inner resources so fear can no
longer stop us.
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Shadow Dance
Liberating the Power and Creativity of Your Dark Side
by David Richo, PhD -- Shambhala, 1999
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We contain creative qualities and powers that we
have kept hidden out of fear and self-doubt. Our shadow includes all that we
find repugnant in ourselves and all the wonderful attributes that we have
discarded or denied. We project our negativities onto others as strong dislike.
We project our own positive potential
onto others as awe and admiration. This book combines text and practices
to help us befriend our shadow.
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The Five Things We Cannot Change
And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
by David Richo, PhD -- Shambhala, 2005
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We notice unavoidable “givens” of human life and
especially of relationships: 1) Everything changes and ends, 2) Things do not
always go according to plan, 3) Life is not always fair, 4) Pain is part of
life, 5) People are not loving and loyal all the time. We cultivate an
“unconditional yes” to these conditions of existence, and we learn to embrace
our predicaments without trying to control the outcomes. We trust the givens as
gifts of grace that help us grow in character, depth, and compassion.
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The Power of Coincidence
How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know
Shambhala, 2007
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Synchronicity, "meaningful coincidence," happens
so that we can find our unique personal destiny. We learn how to remember
dreams and we see how they figure into our life purpose. Synchronicity is one way
the universe/Higher Power grants hospitality to us on our human pilgrimage and
makes everything work for the best. Just the right people and events have come
along so that we can be all we were meant to be.In Italian: Quando le Cose Non
Accadono Per Caso (Armenia,
Milano)
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Integrating Spirituality and Religion
by David Richo, PhD -- Crossroad, 2000
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For Catholics who want to recover from their
past and at the same time reclaim the archetypal riches of their religious
heritage so that it can figure in the design of their adult spirituality. For anyone
seeking the meaning of adult faith and anyone interested in how religion can be
integrated into personal growth and spirituality. Here is a more expansive way
of seeing the Higher Power so that we can have a fuller vision of divine life.
Catholic means universal consciousness, universal humanity, and universal love.
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The Sacred Heart of the World
Restoring Mystical Devotion to Our Spiritual Life
Paulist Press, 2007
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This book presents a spirituality of heart based
on the metaphor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We explore the symbolism of the heart
in world religious traditions, and then trace the historical thread of
Christian devotion into modern times with a focus on the theology of Teilhard
de Chardin and Karl Rahner to design a devotion that respects the new
cosmology. This may appeal both to Catholics and to people from other religious
traditions.
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Mary Within Us
A Jungian contemplation of Her Titles and Powers
by David Richo, PhD -- Human Development Books, 2007
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In Mary
Within Us,
the Jungian archetype of the feminine aspect of
God as personified by Mary is shown to be built into the design of every human psyche.
This
book is about the archetypal and mystical meanings in the titles of Mary in the
universal Church since medieval times. My book shows how we have always
venerated not the literal Mary but the feminine dimension of the divine that
she represents and enriches. The book explores the threefold image of Mary as
virgin, mother, and queen and shows how these are motifs in the human psyche. (This
is the revised new edition: 2007) Order
from bookstores or from www.hudevbooks.com “What a brilliant confluence of images and energies! David Richo has made a very useful set of connections between Mary and the deepest archetypes of the human psyche. This is how theology and psychology should come together. Good scholarship that could lead to good prayer.” – FR. RICHARD ROHR, O.F.M. Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
ISBN 978-0-9669908-5-0
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HUMAN BECOMING
Artwork courtesy of Meganne Forbes
Dr Richo's online book, Human Becoming,
is available free of charge in Adobe Acrobat format.
Human Becoming is a collection of excerpts from the books listed above.
You are welcome to download, print and share any sections from Human Becoming.
Please give credit to Dr David Richo and
mention from which book the excerpt originates.
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