An inspiring chronicle of life-changing encounters, personal transformation and a vision of love that transcends the everyday definition, to embrace universal kindness and compassion, based on the knowledge that all beings are one family and that our capacity to love is one of the world's most hidden yet powerful resources. The book is groundbreaking in its affirmation of love as a pathway for people of widely differing viewpoints. Unexpectedly changed by love, Fran Grace went on a journey to learn more about its power to transform and heal. She interviewed renowned spiritual teachers, scientists, activists and artists, all chosen with the help of her spiritual teacher. Each encounter helped her overcome obstacles on her path. The book gives readers a direct encounter with teachers of love in the world today. From diverse faiths and fields of work, they reveal the power of love to be the next frontier of global consciousness, suggesting many ways to uncover it and live it. The book includes photographs and unique contributions from: Dr. David R. and Susan Hawkins - H. H. the 17th Karmapa - Father Pavlos of Sinai - Llewellyn and Anat Vaughan-Lee - Mona Polacca and The International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers - Betty J. Eadie - Belvie Rooks & Dedan Gills - Dr. William and Jean Tiller - Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo - Huston Smith - Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev - Dr. Viktor Frankl (with grandson Alexander Vesely and Frankl family representative Mary Cimiluca) - Swami Chidatmananda. Fran Grace's personal narrative is pulsed by her encounters with the pioneering teachers of love listed above, each of whom has a chapter that includes a brief biography, excerpts from their dialogue with the author, and her sense of how the encounter helped her to overcome the many obstacles to love. The book takes readers on a journey into Buddhist and Hindu monasteries in India, an Indigenous Grandmothers' fire circle in the Black Hills, Mother Teresa's Homes for the Poor in Rome, Calcutta, and Tijuana, laboratory of a Stanford physicist, home of a Sufi sheikh, largest meditation hall in N. America, and a college classroom in California. She interviews those familiar with the stark Sinai desert, slave dungeons in Ghana, and near-death experiences. In the end, love is found to animate every moment of ordinary life. Inspiring story of personal transformation. Compelling account of how the world is transformed through everyday acts of kindness. A rich resource of teachings on love, healing and compassion from a wide range of spiritual traditions, with a rare inside view of some of the world's most respected teachers. Includes index, biographical profiles, bibliography, endnotes. In these pages are told the simple secrets of love, and Fran's story to uncover and live them. Here are our tears and crises, sudden moments of joy, simple human experiences combined with the taste of a deeper truth. This is the most precious offering we can make to life, to live this story, just as Fran has lived hers. --From the Foreword by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Golden Sufi Center What matters is here! From Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Founder, Center for Action and Contemplation More than eighty years after Paul Brunton s famed Search in Secret India , we are blessed to have before us just such a book for our times, Fran Grace's splendid and moving The Power of Love . It is full of gifts for the reader: visits with some of the most memorable spiritual figures of the past fifty years; Grace s own story of the journey of her own soul as scholar, practitioner, and graced human being; and for all of us, a narrative of love s deep running and overflowing currents in today s thirsting world. This is a book for a wide audience of seekers, travelers, and scholars. It promises to feed the heart and soul, even as it awakens the mind again and again. --From Dr. Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University This book is a masterpiece. Fran Grace takes us on an intimate journey revealing Love in all its facets, from the most sublime peaks of humankind s aspirations, to Love s omnipresence in the most wretched circumstances. From Nisha Manek, M.D., Fellow of the American College of Physicians This book is wonderful. It gives me hope. It s such a good look at what people from all walks of life go through on a spiritual path. Doc is still teaching.... From Susan J. Hawkins, President, The Institute for Spiritual Research (founded by Dr. David R. Doc Hawkins) This book really pulls one in. It s a fascinating look at the all-important subject of Love, written from both a personal and an objective point of view this is a rare combination! From Margaret Johnson, Ph.D., Board of Directors, C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California This spiritual autobiography is very timely for a fractured world that needs to be reminded of the One in whom we all regardless of religious af