"I will cut my desire into short day-by-day lengths, and I will feed those lengths to the hungry fires of courage because I want nothing more than for my sacrifices to be accepted, my gold to be purified, even if my hands are bruised." Beautiful prose, like that, is mixed in with stories from different countries and cultures. In between that he adds the history of marriage. I found his statements about the Middle/Dark ages particularly interesting. Not a how to/workbook but a solid overview of the topic and why it should matter to the average person. ( )