Any Book Recommendations?

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Permalink Reply by rocken nana wwt on February 21, 2011 at 10:31pm

Og Mandino comes in 2nd.

Permalink Reply by rocken nana wwt on February 21, 2011 at 10:34pm

The Shack and/ or Og Mandino

Permalink Reply by Jane on March 7, 2011 at 7:39pm

The Road!

Permalink Reply by phoward12001 on March 27, 2011 at 1:10pm

I know this book has been out a long time but I have come back to alot of time. Its called One Day my Soul Open Up. by Iyanla Vanzant. It is my favorite book although it takes me sometime each time I get into to finish it is an experience I can not forget. Hope someone feels the way I do.

Permalink Reply by Grateful & Buddhaful on April 14, 2011 at 5:06pm

Hi everyone,

I'm intrigued about The Shack, and I'm about to hunt it down to read. I recommend "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz. The four agreements us as human beings need to remember and use. It'd save us from so much crap in our lives!

I love Pema Chodron also! She's good. "Conversations with God" (the first book) by Neale Donald Walsch was a book that changed my thinking on God.

Ahhhh sooooooooo many books. I've read most of the books suggested. I can't keep track & there's a bazillion more I want to read!!! Am currently reading a book on Angels & I'm currently waiting for a book to arrive called "An autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramhansa Yogananda. Oh, a book I recently read a somewhat humorous book about an Aussie guys journey to find enlightenment. Made me laugh out loud!

 

I usually have 3-4 books on the go at once, especially if I'm reading a self development book. It breaks up the mental stuff.

 

Happy reading peoples!! I love reading the suggestions. I'm always after a good book.

 

Big love & warm fuzzies

Christine

Permalink Reply by Grateful & Buddhaful on April 14, 2011 at 5:08pm

Forgot to add the book title...DUH!!.... It's called "Any guru will do" by Phil Brown

 

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Permalink Reply by Dawn wwt on April 23, 2011 at 7:47pm

i read The Four Agreements on the recommendation of a good friend of mine from back in high school and i really liked it. so well, in fact, that when i saw that Don Miguel Ruiz had put our another book, The Fifth Agreement, i immediately ordered it. i will report back on it when i've finished it. Hugs, Dawn

Permalink Reply by flowerpower on April 17, 2011 at 7:24pm

A book i read that is basic but inspiring is the happiness makeover by M.J. Ryan, and it teaches how to have joy in ur life :)

Permalink Reply by nancys on April 19, 2011 at 11:37am

I just read The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. I loved it!

Henry Lee is still mourning the death of his wife when he learns that the belongings of Japanese Americans hidden in the basement of Seattle's Panama Hotel for decades have been discovered. Henry is drawn to the basement, and what he's searching for there opens a door he thought he had closed forever. The story switches back and forth between 1986 and the 1940s, when a 12-year-old Henry attending an American school (he's "scholarshipping" as his father likes to say) meets another international student working in the school kitchen. Keiko is Japanese American, the enemy according to Henry's father, but the two become best friends before her family is imprisoned in one of the relocation camps.

This book does a phenomenal job exploring the history and attitudes of this time period, and Ford's portrayal of Seattle's ethnic neighborhoods is amazing. But really, the thing that pulled me into this novel the most was the richness of the relationships -- Henry and Keiko, Henry and his father, Henry's mother and his father, and Henry and his own son. HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET looks at the best and worst of human relationships, the way we regard others, the way we find ourselves reenacting our relationships with our parents with our own children, the choices we make along the way. Mostly, though, this book reminds us that there is always room -- and time -- for forgiveness and redemption.

I finished this book in tears, moved by the people who came to life so vividly in this story and sad that it had to end at all. HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET is a perfect, perfect choice for book clubs or for anyone craving a compelling story about human nature at its worst and at its best. An amazing, amazing book. It will be one of your favorites, I can almost promise.

Permalink Reply by beecharmer4 on April 30, 2011 at 2:12pm

I really love Pema Chodrin's book, When Things Fall Apart.  It helped me during a very painful divorce and it helped my mother tremendously after my father died.  It is short and a quick and easy read and yet so comforting.

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