The Rose and the Sword Paperback – September 30, 2013

This book is great! It is personal growth and it is written in stories to help you comprehend it better. At the end of each chapter there is commentary about what you read and examples of what to do in your own life to help you balance your masculine or feminine energy. Its great! Highly recommend!

The "Rose and the Sword" is one of my favorite books because it shows you the secrets of the positive/negative feminine and masculine aspects of your personality in unique story telling format. Stories are great transformational tools that teach you by example. Each story ends with comments and exercises. Terrific gift for those who wish to balance their relationships, improve team and community work and other areas in their lives. What I love the most about this book is that it contains some awesome and surprising tenets beyond ordinary ways of seeing things. Simply a treasure!

There aren’t many books that are entertaining and enlightening, too. The Rose and the Sword takes the important subject of understanding how we function through the lens of our feminine and masculine energies, and blends it in a framework that includes soul expanding and heart opening exercises for personal growth. And it’s fun to read.

The premise of this book deals with balancing the inner masculine and feminine that exists in each of us. After reading it I have become more aware of my strengths and weaknesses and see them in a different light. My communication with others has vastly improved and I feel more balanced and whole.

The allegory is forced and the stories resolve out of nowhere to fit the moral. Somehow felt like I was being beaten over the head with the obvious, but the underlying message wasn’t always obviously explained. Not worth the read, didn’t finish it.

Great read! Gives such variety of unique illustrating of how the Masculine and Feminine Principle operate within us.J Vann

Excellent! Very fast delivery.

[Review originally posted on LibraryThing]I received this book as a part of LibraryThing’s giveaway program in return for a review.I thought this was a well-written book. It is constructed as a series of parable-like fictional case studies, followed by commentary and either meditative or active exercises to apply the lesson of each chapter. I haven’t yet had the time to try the exercises, but they seem quite useful and well within the abilities of even someone relatively new to the self-reflective experience.Initially, I was thinking that the examples were a little too heavy-handed, but as the lessons unfolded, I grew to really appreciate the nuanced ways in which one could approach one’s own self-development or the growth of oneself within a relationship. I think this book is much more understandable and ‘do-able’ that some of the other relationship books out on the market.

Great book. Would reccomend to both men and women, single or in a relationship.

Good book over positive and negative feminine and masculine aspects and balacing it in your life. Would recommend reading it