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Posted: 12/31/2006 12:08:37 AM | My current favourite is: Loving What Is - Byron Katie
The first one that I can remember would be Illusions by Richard Bach. I still think about walking through walls, one day, when believe enough I will. | |
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Posted: 1/3/2007 11:59:32 AM | | Ann Rule(author)...she writes about true crime. | |
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Posted: 1/4/2007 3:57:18 PM | Hmmm, not really one for deeply spiritual or self-help books but here goes:
Scouting For Boys - Robert Baden-Powell
The Green Mile - Stephen King
Too Good to Leave, Too bad to Stay - Cant remember who wrote it, but good book about relationships | |
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Posted: 1/4/2007 5:43:18 PM | Green Eggs n' Ham.
NOT IN A BOAT, NOT WITH A GOAT, NOT IN THE RAIN, NOT ON A TRAIN, I DO WANT GREEN EGGS n' HAM!!! | |
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Posted: 1/4/2007 6:25:47 PM | Great timing for this thread as I only recently started reading books in this genre and hopefully picked up a few good suggestions. The ones I recommend are:
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Power of Now by Echart Tolle
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Looking for more parables/fables that have a Buddhist orientation if anyone has a recommendation. | |
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Posted: 1/4/2007 7:13:58 PM | The Complete Works of Shakespeare - by Willy of course
The Innovator's Solution - Christensen and Raynor
The King James Bible - various authors, edited by committee
The Book of Mormon - one lone cult-maker
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
Surfacing - Atwood
More Than Human - Sturgeon
The True Believer - Hoffer
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Cradle to Cradle - McDonough and Braungart
Most likely to change my life of recently read or in-progress books:
The Singularity is Near - Kurzweil
That's the five minute list.
Cheers,
Mike (and the collected works of Elmore Leonard and Lee Child) | |
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Posted: 1/4/2007 9:00:36 PM | Deadboltdad, I'm gonna check out Gottman ...
but right now I'm into "Anatomy of Love, The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce" by Helen E. Fisher.
She's convincing me that we are puppets of our evolution and biology. | |
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Posted: 1/7/2007 10:40:03 PM | 3 authors have "fed" my mind and soul: Louise Hay, Jon Kabat-Zinn and oddly enough, Dr. Laura!
Although Dr. Laura Schlessinger has lottsa controvery, her Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands made me look at men differently: not to expect them to think/speak like a close "girlfriend" and to know they can show "hurt" feelings differently than females expect. I also thing her 10 Stupidest Things Men/Women of value to me: to think somberly about who one chooses for LTRs.
Some books are better on CD because being read by the author gives a fuller message:
Louise Hay affirmations on CD are a treasure as one can hear the love in her voice.
Although I find his books, like Full Catastrophe Living, rather wordy Jon Kabat-Zinn's meditations on his CD-books are very simple and enjoyable.
[By the way, fictional Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by the British-accented author, was just hilarious on CD. I couldn't help mentioning that one] | |
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Posted: 1/20/2007 1:52:43 PM | I've just started a new book that is really making me think about my definition of Love. It is Love, Freedom and Aloneness by Osho. It is more into the spiritual sacredness of love and how love brings not only joy but also pain as you have to forgo your ego to be in a relationship. Just for contrast I'm reading it at the same time as Dr Laura Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, which to me says do it this way. I am finding more peace and joy in love using Love, Freedom and Aloneness.
ps. Hitchhikers Guide is great.
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Posted: 1/20/2007 2:11:55 PM | | i was abit skeptical at first about books that may be helpful to one's life, but after reading "The Four Agreements" (working now through the "companion guide") it made alot of sense so it definitely altered my pattern way of thinking. I did digest what i needed from it and though i am still trying to adopt my life to it, as the author points out, he too even had to keep practising this way of thinking before he finally grasped it and acknowledged to his life. It is a good read, and would be very cool to hear him on a live lecture, looking to read more of his philosphy teachings. | |
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Posted: 1/20/2007 2:58:36 PM | Mine was "Chicken Soup for the Soul, Living Your Dreams..
It made me really stop and realize what was important, and today is all we have..
Just adjusted my way of thinking even more, in getting and going after goals and dreams that I want to accomplish.. | |
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Posted: 1/21/2007 4:46:29 AM | Hmmm... different books have given me different things.
But as far as lessons that went into the formulation of my personality and values, well, they are more stories than books but...
Beowulf
Hrolf Kraki's Saga
the Legend of Walter
the Legend of Wayland Smith
Njal's Saga
I found Joseph Campbell's various works, such as the Hero with a Thousand Faces, Transformation of Myth's Through Time, to have come to me at just the right point in my teenage years. It was one of the first objective affiramtions in my little world that said it was okay to be something other than Christian.
The Well and the Tree by Bauschatz was very good too, going into detail on preChristian Anglo-Nordic perceptions of time and space.
The Road to Hel by HRE Davidson; which provided the same on preChristian Anglo-Noridc afterlife beliefs.
Teutonic Mythology by Jacob Grimm; which provided details on ALL things preChrisitan Anglo-Nordc and just blew my mind.
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity by J.Russell; which is a post-modern study of the conversion the peoples of NW Europe to Christianity, written as a Masters thesis and drawing together numerous academic disciplines in the examination. A BIG eye opener for anyone that ever questioned received history and wondered why the NW Europeans converted to a foreign cult of belief.
There are a ton of other such books, but none any less eccentric than the others. | |
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Posted: 1/21/2007 9:59:28 AM |
Deadboltdad, I'm gonna check out Gottman ...
but right now I'm into "Anatomy of Love, The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce" by Helen E. Fisher.
She's convincing me that we are puppets of our evolution and biology.
In that case, check out On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz. He goes into quite a bit of detail on the rituals of various vertebrates and the connection between them and our own behaviors. That and he wrote in another book of the rituals of geese that had me questioning where our religious sacraments actually spring from, and if it wasn't at least in part, genetically derived from our non-human ancestors.
And take a look at Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works. The complete guide to all things human and their roots in evolutionary biology. | |
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Posted: 1/21/2007 10:09:42 AM | Natural History of the Senses
Natural History of Love ....both by Diane Ackerman
She's Come Undone
I Know This Much is True...both by Wally Lamb
Skipping Towards Gomorrah- Dan Savage
Reading People- Jo-Ellan Dimitrius
Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany-Ben Schott | |
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Posted: 1/21/2007 10:16:04 AM | I love to read ! I am excited about this thread because it gives me so many books to go look for and they've already been given the thumbs up...
Two books that I try to live by are:
1) The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
2) The four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | |
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Posted: 1/22/2007 12:04:02 PM |  The Diary of Anne Frank
An incredibly powerful statement of humanity and historical events.
The Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle
A definate lasting lesson the concept of living in the moment, but not only for the moment at hand.
The Millionaire Mind ~ T. Harv Eker
Not jsut about money, a brilliant way to look at how we put forth energy to what we already have/are, and can have/can be.
Oh, The Places You'll Go! ~ Dr.Seuss
"So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act."
This may be 'child's play, but it has incredible insight about life; the ups, the downs, and everything inbetween. | |
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Posted: 1/22/2007 12:05:46 PM | The Diary of Anne Frank
An incredibly powerful statement of humanity and historical events.
The Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle
A definate lasting lesson in the concept of living in the moment, but not only for the moment at hand.
The Millionaire Mind ~ T. Harv Eker
Not just about money, but a brilliant way to look at how we put forth energy to what we already have/are, and can have/can be.
Oh, The Places You'll Go! ~ Dr.Seuss
"So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act."
This may be 'child's play, but it has incredible insight about life; the ups, the downs, and everything inbetween. | |
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Posted: 1/26/2007 11:06:51 PM | The Gift of Fear - Gavin De Becker
-I recommend this one to all my women friends.
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
Any Discworld novell - Terry Pratchett
-Just to make me laugh, and laugh and laugh and stop taking life so seriously.
Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
- Same reason as above but for guys only.
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins | |
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Posted: 1/26/2007 11:38:26 PM | Who moved my cheese..cant remember who wrote it but it was mandatroy reading at my last job...loved it
Secrets about life that every woman should know..-Barbara De Angelis
this was a life changer for me and I recomend every woman to read it..
Woman who run with wolves-Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Again another novel that changed my life...made me realize that even though as woman we stilll need and can be vulgar...and having a period...is a pretty cool thing
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Posted: 1/27/2007 12:53:06 AM | An excellent book my mother used and one I also used with my son (when little) was.....Where do babies come from! It's like a cartoonish (if that's even a word) book but also very explainatory!!!
I would recommend it for those with young one's asking the why? how? questions all the time. | |
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Posted: 1/27/2007 9:52:44 AM | The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz; get it, read it, live it.
The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer | |
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Posted: 1/27/2007 2:08:58 PM | | Believe it or not the book "Women are From Venus and Men are From Mars" made a difference. I learned that there is alot more that men and women need to learn about each other in the way we look at things. | |
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