Love Opens Hearts
By (Author) Liz Mohn
Random House USA Inc
Random House USA Inc
15th November 2001
United States
General
Non Fiction
Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues
306.7
208
Width 147mm, Height 216mm, Spine 25mm
420g
For Liz Mohn, Love Opens Hearts is both a description of her life experiences and a cautionary tale. On the eve of a new millennium shaped by internationalisation and globalisation, Mohn asks a simple question: "Can humankind survive without love" To find the answer, she invites us to examine frightening trends in our society - the loss of direction, the lack of consideration, the increase in egoism and loneliness and even the disappearance of love. Then Mohn makes her plea for our most extraordinary, yet most basic, human capacity - the capacity to love. Love imparts vision and insight. Love reaches out and consoles while respecting personal boundaries. Love knows nothing of selfishness and has no needs of its own. Love not only opens the heart of the individual, but can also open the heart of humanity.
Mohn is on the board of the Bertelsmann Verm gensverwaltungsgesellschaft (Bertelsmann Asset Management Group) and the advisory board of the Bertelsmann Foundation, and is the first woman to be a member of the Club of Rome, a global think tank based in Hamburg. She is a recipient of the medal of honor of Germany's Order of Merit and the service medal of the German Medical Society.