The Four Noble Truths of Love

Outline

The Four Noble Truths of Love (2018) applies the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths to close relationships between partners. Susan Piver argues that relationships are naturally uncomfortable and ever-changing, and that trying to make them permanently comfortable causes much of our frustration. Instead, she encourages couples to accept uncertainty and meet each other with openness, kindness, and honesty.

• Susan Piver applies the Buddha's Four Noble Truths to close relationships between partners.
• Relationships are naturally uncomfortable and always changing, and that is part of how they work.
• Trying to make a relationship permanently comfortable causes much of the frustration couples feel.
• Couples are encouraged to accept uncertainty instead of fighting it.
• The book urges partners to meet each other with openness, kindness, and honesty.

Susan Piver is an American meditation teacher and author who founded the Open Heart Project, an online meditation community. She writes about mindfulness, relationships, and emotional life, and her other books include The Hard Questions and The Wisdom of a Broken Heart.