Danielle Laporte - How to Be Loving: As Your Heart Is Breaking Open and Our World Is Waking Up

Praise

Danielle is a force field of energy, wonder, humor, and love.

V (formerly Eve Ensler)

author of The Vagina Monologues and In the Body of the World

When I think of Danielle LaPorte, what comes to heart and mind is a woman who practices what she teaches. She radiates authenticity, compassion, deep caring, intelligence, and a true desire for others to transform their lives into their greater yet-to-be. Shes the Real Deal!

Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith

founder of Agape International Spiritual Center, author of Life Visioning

Danielle LaPorte is a bright light in the modern priestesshood. She keeps it spiritual, she keeps it real, she keeps it good.

Marianne Williamson

New York Times bestselling author of A Return to Love

Our souls are yearning for Danielles liberating messagethat discernment is crucial to our true spiritual freedom. Shes as compassionate as she is fiery, and every contemporary seeker will see themselves in her...

Shefali Tsabary, PhD

New York Times bestselling author of The Awakened Family

Danielle is... a woman whos made a tremendous impact on my life with her brave and badass approach to living a heart centered life.

LeAnn Rimes Cibrian

singer/songwriter, host of the Wholly Human podcast

Danielle is the living embodiment of heart centered leadership. Her approach to her life and her offerings ooze love and generosity and show us how we can live and give full out.

John Wineland

founder of The New Mens Work Project, author of From the Core

Danielle is a real-deal, no-BS teacher with an incredible depth of wisdom. Shes built a timeless library of content. Her content is unique and highly relevant, and her style of delivery makes it so lovely to consume. Danielle leads with both her heart and super intelligent mind. Her words are medicine; her body of work is life-changing.

Christine Hassler

master life coach, author of Expectation Hangover

Danielle LaPorte never disappoints as this generations go-to truth-teller and visionary, always leading by being ahead of the curve. She intuits what is needed and provides it at the exact right moment.

Terri Cole

psychotherapist, author of Boundary Boss

Danielles voice is medicine for self-help fatigue and ambition overdrive. Her deep clarity and realness are a healing combinationand its right on time for our culture.

Mark Hyman, MD

ten-time New York Times bestselling author

A beacon of compassion, Danielle is an extraordinary human. A woman devoted to helping people transcend their limitations, and access their potential, and truly self-actualize. Honest, accessible, and authentic to the core.

Rich Roll

host of The Rich Roll Podcast, vegan activist, athlete

Danielle lights the way in reconnecting people to their true voice and authentic self. Her words hold the power to validate, heal, and free the hearts and souls of humankind.

Anthony William

#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Medical Medium series

Sounds True

Boulder, CO 80306

2022 Danielle LaPorte, Inc.

Sounds True is a trademark of Sounds True, Inc.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the author(s) and publisher.

Published 2022

Cover design by Danielle LaPorte, Lisa Kerans, Cheryl Sorg

Book design by Connie Poole

Author photo by Anastasia Chomlack

Cover art by Cheryl Sorg I CherylSorg.com

BK06147

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: LaPorte, Danielle, 1969 author.

Title: How to be loving : as your heart is breaking open and our world is waking up / Danielle LaPorte.

Description: Boulder, CO : Sounds True, [2022]

Identifiers: LCCN 2021061726 (print) | LCCN 2021061727 (ebook) | ISBN 9781683647621 (hardback) | ISBN 9781683647638 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Love. | Fear. | Compassion. | Ego (Psychology)

Classification: LCC BF575.L8 L2677 2022 (print) | LCC BF575.L8 (ebook) | DDC 152.4/1dc23/eng/20220401

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021061726

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021061727

... everything exposed by the light becomes visibleand everything that is illuminated becomes a light.

Ephesians 5:13

On my most recent year-in-review exercise, I seriously considered walking away from my creative life (which I tend to reconsider every few years). I had this romantic notion of meditating all morning in my apartment, growing potatoes on my deck for neighbors, wearing white peasant blouses, and never checking my Instagram ever again.

But instead, I came to my senses and wrote this book.

Because my heart is breaking (open) from the state of this world. I think were longing for Love and Truthand for each other.

My life used to be guided by the question How do I want to feel? I built my career on that with The Desire Map book. But I began to notice that even if I wasnt experiencing my core desired feelings, I was still in touch with a greater purpose. Temporary unhappiness didnt hold me back from helping out a friend or feeling useful or close to the Divine.

A new question emerged: What do I want to embody? And the answer was clear: Love. Love, no matter what.

Shifting from an emotion-driven life to a more heart centered life is a developmental process. The path to being more Loving is through a Loving process itself. Its gentle and compassionate. Its about creating a friendship with reality.

Being Loving doesnt mean feeling more. It means feeling everything with more Love.

This is a book about Acceptance and Unity Consciousness. Its not a map, its an urgent Love letter to the Light in every one of us. I hope it helps us remember who we are, together.

With Love,

Spirituality is the practice of thinking with Love.

Your heart is open.

All of the time, actually. You cant ever close your heartno matter what. We only think that we open or close our hearts. Our mind manufactures thoughts that veil our Loving awareness, like clouds floating through the sky. Some happiness billows by. There goes a wisp of concern. A rain cloud of worry. Starry ideas. The clouds of emotions, thoughts, and pure inspiration are naturally coming and going, and all the while theres the sky itself accommodating absolutely everything in its vastness and multitasking with galaxies. The sky is being, allowing, and expanding. The sky doesnt ever constrict. It can only be the sky discovering more of its sky-ness.