What is love, truly? And how can we best express it? Morhaf Al Achkar’s A Love Attempt: Your Step-By-Step Action Guide to Develop Your Love Competence is an in-depth self-help manual that seeks to demonstrate how each individual has the capacity for love. The book is divided into four broad chapters that offer a definition of love, some insights on how to listen to others, suggestions on how we take action with our love acts, and how we can practice love in authentic ways. Also noteworthy is a substantial introduction that helps readers understand the unique viewpoint of an author wanting to offer something of himself for the good of humankind.
Some books designed to improve people from the inside out seem to be filled with flashy pictures or colorful infographics, but little substance. A Love Attempt is 100% filled with Morhaf Al Achkar’s heart and soul. Readers will find wisdom in the most simple statements. “Listening is the ultimate act of love, it is the end, and it is the beginning.” Other sections take basic ideas or concepts to dissect and analyze them so as to come to a more complete understanding of them. The author also helps us to examine some commonly overlooked pitfalls with love, some love-analogues, and several stimulating mental exercises.
A Love Attempt is such a refreshing change of pace from all the negativity and greed we are constantly barraged with. Readers may find themselves challenged by the erudite language and lengthy expositions. However, the takeaway will be worth the effort. Morhaf Al Achkar presents compelling personal evidence on a subject that the world needs now more than ever!
