Images of Personal Vaule is a book about the meaning of home and the lives we lead far from it, whether at work, in school, or in our social circle. Using contemporary dramas, movies and works by authors Antoine de Saint Exupery and Anne Morrow Lindbergh as reference points, Philip Mooney heightens our awareness of the three attitudes we adopt toward others. He contrasts the functional perspective in which 'you are acceptable for my use or delight' with the appreciative perspective in which 'you are welcomed in your unique worth just as your are.' This attitude becomes the necessary prelude to personal communion wherein each friend can be completely himself or herself and find home 'in your loving presence.'
