Wise Love

We can overcome loneliness, lovelessness, and disconnection.

We can gain wisdom about love and loving-kindness.

We can understand how to turn conflict into creative conversations.

We can then enjoy life more with kindness and

friendliness in our hearts.

Most people didn't learn to communicate well.

It often led to confusion and conflict.

You can contact me

for individual or couples coaching or

a program for your group or organization

on emotional and social skills you need

to have a lasting, healthy, loving relationship.

Opening Up Our Hearts to Loving-Kindness

James Taylor sang,

“The secret of life is opening up your heart.”

Humans are social animals, yet studies show two-thirds of U.S. adults

are lonely, and half of all adults are too shy to seek friendships.

Many people then develop a habit or addiction to something

to numb the pain of feeling lonely and unloved.

Many don't feel safe in their relationships.

Two-thirds of people

are not in a sexually satisfying relationship,

and many then turn online to pornography

to satisfy their sexual needs.

Pornography can then become addictive

as it activates pleasurable hormones in the brain.

Social media and mass media are filled with hostility.

The pandemic social distancing process

made people feel even lonelier.

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When friends express

appreciation for each other they both feel happier.

7 Keys to Love shares many ideas about

healthy, loving relationships, and how to create

a much more compassionate, creative,

kinder world for all.

Why & How I Wrote 7 Keys to Love

Once upon a time, about 50 years ago, I was confused about love, so I started reading and compiling quotations about love.

My reading led to collecting 800 pages of quotes I then sorted into different expressions of love: illusory love; self-love; friendly love; couple and romantic love; family, filial love, love for parents and the elderly; altruistic, platonic, community love; love for culture and nature; love for life and love for the world; and agape, cosmic, universal love for the source and the creation.

Compiling quotes for years, I learned more and more about love's many dimensions. I called the writings Love's Journey, as if it was the Energy of Love journeying in the universe, into the different forms of love: personal, interpersonal, through families and in communities.

I saw that the values of empathy, compassion and loving-kindness are built into our institutions of education, health, human services and cultural activities to help people heal, enlighten and grow in loving-kindness. People have the capacity to care in so many ways.

After many years of research and writing, in 2009, I finally published the Love's Journey book as 7 Keys to Love ~ Opening Love’s Door to Joy & Wellbeing. Many people liked the book very much. You can see their comments below.

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“Sandy, the first page of 7 Keys to Love is headed CONTENTS. Just reading your approach to What is this Thing called Love, tells me you have done what all the other writers on the subject of Love have not done or were unable to do. You made the most complicated word in our language understandable. Anyone, including me, will leave after its reading, knowing more about themselves, and every relationship in their past, present, and future relationships to come. The benefits of your knowledge and the way you express them in 7 Keys to Love will more than touch each of your readers. It will empower all of us to make better choices in our relationships because we will know so much more about what we are doing, and why we are doing it. Better choices because of what we learned from Sandy Hinden.”

Mel Glazer

Songwriting Educator

“7 Keys to Love book is THE book this year and every year! What can one ask for more than LOVE? Love in between individuals, Love in all its shapes. The answers to all our questions are waiting for us right in the heart of Sanford Hinden’s book. Once you read this precious content, your daily life with your own self, your partner, your community, the world, will get much better. Don’t even think twice, we all NEED some loving, some guidance, sometime… Make yourself and others a gift: have those 7 Keys to Love and unlock the doors of PEACE in the world!”

Tatiana Kesrouani

Visual Communication Designer

TKDesign, Lebanon

"If everybody would read 7 Keys to Love, it would be a wonderful world."

Mike Morales

Construction Worker

"The 7 Keys to Love should be mandatory reading for humans! Why isn't this the text book for a class some point between 1st and 12th grade you must take a few times? If more people read this book, and used the information in their daily living, we would all be a lot happier. I loved this book and it should be a must read for everyone. Great job Sandy."

Tom Cavanagh

Vocalist, Musician

"I strongly encourage teens and adults who want to make this world a better place read 7 Keys to Love - Opening Love's Door to Joy & Well-being. Sandy will show you how to enrich yourself through finding compassion for yourself and others in your community, and in your circle of family and friends. He shows you how to extend that love to nature and enhance your creativity."

Mary Donohue, RN, M.S. Ed.

"Sandy, keep spreading the word. The word is Love and it's the most important word in the world – and our only hope for peace and survival. There are not enough people talking about what's so vital for our planet – Love."

Gary Rosenberg

Author, Graphic Designer

"Uplifting and refreshing for the soul, 7 Keys to Love is the book everyone should have on the bookshelf, to refer to over and over again."

Jaci Clement

Executive Director

Fair Media Council

"The one thing everyone desires, the best gift you can ever give to your family, the foundation for a happy family, is LOVE. Unconditional love is often hard to practice on a day-to-day basis and it is now possible with the 7 Keys to Love by author and speaker Sandy Hinden."

Barbara Gaughen Muller

President, Santa Barbara Chapter

United Nations Association

"Sandy Hinden’s book 7 Keys to Love is about love for all. The youth of America and the world need information about this important subject – love – that is not part of the school curriculum (yet). Remember the song ‘I want to know what love is. I want you to show me.’ Youth want more information about this most important aspect of life. 7 Keys to Love provides it. It corrects mistakes early, when two people are in love, providing fast, critical understanding of values and skills. I suggest all youth, parents, and grandparents purchase 7 Keys to Love and all teachers and school administrators be trained in 7 Keys to Love. It is knowledge that takes some of us a lifetime to learn."

Martin Danenberg

Educational Consultant

“Sandy Hinden has written an amazing, powerful, compassionate and important book for our times! I have been awed, inspired, encouraged, and enlightened by the diversity of his knowledge, experience and insights. He has produced a masterful, practical, and essential work on Love in all its aspects as a force for Healing in the world. He has shown that through healing ourselves first through Love, we can go on to heal our personal and work relationships, our communities, and, ultimately, the world.

Sandy Hinden has combined a deep understanding of psychology and spirituality with a practical hands-on methodology for how to do this. The years of dedication he has given to work in the areas of world peace, ecology, and non-violent communication has culminated in this wonderful work.

The title 7 Keys to Love ~ Opening Love's Door to Joy & Well-being truly describes what can happen when we implement these keys. The Workshops he offers to put these teachings into practice ourselves, in families, in relationships, and in communities are great tools that need to be given around the country and world in schools, churches, community centers, prisons, hospitals, etc..

I am re-reading the book and have ordered ten copies to give to friends and colleagues!”

Dr. Judith Alstadter

Concert Pianist, Music Educator

Workshop / Retreat Facilitator

7 Keys to Love ~ A Book of Wisdom About Love

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