A New Earth Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose

I hope that each of you are finding this book and online class as interesting and spiritually valuable as I am. I was particularly touched by a statement made on Oprah’s show last week about the A New Earth online class. Oprah had a variety of people from all walks of life on the show via skype to talk about how the book and class have changed their perceptions, their life and given them some poignant “Ah Ha” Moments. One was Army Captain, Mason Weiss stationed in Baghdad.

His mother had given him the book to read before he headed to Iraq. He read the book before departing and found it so significant that he jotted down some of the statements that touched him the most and laminated them on an index card to carry with him in Iraq. He was on the show via Skype and pulled it from his uniform and read it for Oprah. I was touched by this particular statement.

When I get back home I don’t get a gift certificate or anything with all that wasted energy worrying about it or worrying about what might have happened. So it’s helped me tremendously and allowed me to separate my thoughts from my body and just stay in the present moment. Army Captain Mason Weiss, Baghdad, Iraq

 

Change Your Life Through Travel

Change Your Life Through Travel
Inspiring Tales and Tips for Richer, Fuller, More Adventurous Living
By: Jillian Robinson

Jillian has created a book that delights the reader with her experiences around the globe and at the same time touches them with insights and tips for creating changes in their own lives. I was touched by her second chapter entitled Take More Risks. I especially liked this statement.

Risk suggests possible loss or danger. And fear of loss often preoccupies our lives. What if we embraced loss instead? What if we regarded every possible loss as an opportunity to create something new? Doors close, windows open.”

After reading Changing Your Life Through Travel I believe Jillian will touch her readers with her insightful thoughts and tips chapter by chapter. Jillian’s chapters include; Slow Down and Live in the Moment, Feel Sexy, Step into Your Courage and many others. In each chapter she weaves her experiences along with those of others to create a chapter of travel experiences that inspire and touch the reader. She then concludes each chapter with three tips to help the reader create adventures in their own lives. Absolutely worth a read!

 

For One More Day

I think each of us who grieves can relate to the desire of wishing for just one more day with a special person we love, who has passed on. This is the topic of the movie, For One More Day, created from the book by the same name. The movie will be shown on Sunday Dec 9th. This book was written by Mitch Albom who also wrote The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. For One More Day

 

Wanderlust And Lipstick

WanderlustAndLipstick
By: Beth Whitman

Beth has written a book of her solo travel experiences and adventures around the globe. Her book and website are an inspiration to women who long to embark on their own journey of adventure and travel. The website includes travel insight, experiences and travel tips for women from Beth and other travel writers who have lived their own solo travel adventures. My experiences are included there under Wander Blogs; Hammock In Paradise.

 

The Eagle and The Condor

The Eagle and The Condor
By: Jonette Crowley

This is an amazing book that explores one woman’s spiritual growth and how following her spiritual guidance and intuitions transformed her life and allowed her to use the knowledge she was given to help others grow and transform.

It’s Jonette Crowley’s journey to help guide others to transformation through her experiences and the knowledge she gained. The book details her experiences in Peru and reminds us that life is indeed a spiritual journey and that we are placed with people and in situations which can further our growth and knowledge and which open our life to experiences that forever change us.

 

A Sweet Reminder.. The Bachelor’s Cat

By L F Hoffman

Tonight I was looking for a good book, something relaxing after a long day of boating. I found a book on my shelf that I bought nearly ten years ago. It was published in 1997. It’s a romantic and touching story of a man who decides to open his heart to a stray kitten on a cold day and finds the kitten begins to change his life, his perspective and eventually shows him he can fall in love. It’s a book that will delight women who wonder if there is indeed a special man for them. I bought this book at a time when I was in need of my own inspiration but still today find it a sweet read.

 

A Walk On The Beach

A Walk On The Beach
By Joan Anderson

This is the third book in a series that Joan Anderson has written about her unexpected and unconventional year living alone on Cape Cod. In this book Anderson explores the depth of her friendship and relationship with Joan Erikson; a woman of wisdom and insight whom she meets and befriends during a cold, windy beach walk she takes after being snowed in for nearly a week on the Cape.

This quote from her book, was one I particularly liked and it seemed to characterize what their friendship was about, daily adventures, learning, living and becoming more of their authentic selves.

As far as I’m concerned vital living is all about action and touch. That’s where you find the wisdom-in what you’re doing and feeling. Stepping out on a gray day, immersing oneself in the elements, daring to be different, that’s the way to go.

This book is a delightful read that explores the relationship of two friends who meet when both of their lives are changing and the warm and wonderful experiences they share along the way to creating new lives for themselves.

 

Veil of Roses

Veil of Roses
By: Laura Fitzgerald

Veil of Roses is a novel that touched my heart. This book gives any American pause for thought about the freedoms that we experience daily without a thought. I’m not even speaking of the more obvious freedoms such as choosing the person we marry or traveling to a variety of foreign destinations we enjoy. I am talking about small things, like having coffee at Starbucks with a friend of the opposite sex, walking down the street in clothes that speak out for causes we believe in or holding hands with a lover in public. All of these we do naturally without thinking for a moment that there are cultures where each of these is forbidden and would get us arrested.

This novel is an eye opening look into the lives and culture of an Iranian family. From the lives of the parents who for a time lived in our western culture to the grown daughter they are trying to give freedom to with a one way ticket to America. She has a three month travel visa to stay with her Iranian born sister married to an Iranian American. In this time she hopes to meet an Iranian man whom she can marry, so that she can leave Iran for good. This book was so engrossing that I read it in one night. I highly recommend this book, it is an eye opening look at a culture where women have few choices. As a woman it makes my heart bleed to know these women have so little hope. May each of us use our choices wisely and pray that these women can someday soon make their own too.

 

The Traveler’s Gift

The Traveler’s Gift

Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success
By: Andy Andrews

The Traveler’s Gift is an amazing book. It is one that should be shared with friends and loved ones alike! It is an inspiring novel about a man called David Ponder who finds himself in a desperate situation and a cross roads in his life. He reaches a point of extreme fear and struggle in his life and a split second decision places him in a situation of grave danger. He is given in that moment divine assistance to show him and teach him what he can do with his life through seven principles. His lessons and his inspiring work resonate with me and leave me feeling like the world is a better place with this book! It is a book that touches my heart and motivates me to create good in my own life. A must read!

 

Eat Pray Love

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

What a great book. It is a heart warming journey through the transitions of Elizabeth Gilbert’s life and her year of healing while traveling to three countries she felt drawn to. It’s absolutely worth a read! I particularly loved two particular quotes from the book. These touched my heart.

We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don’t have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. If you bring the right earnestness to your homemade ceremony, God will provide the grace.

So that’s the final lesson, isn’t it? When you set out in the world to help yourself, you inevitably end up helping….Tutti (In Italian Everybody)

 

The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent

The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent
Living the Art of Allowing
By:Esther and Jerry Hicks
(The Teachings of Abraham)

This leading-edge book by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present the teachings of the Non-Physical entity Abraham, is about having a deliberate intent for whatever you want in life, while at the same time balancing your energy and living the Art of Allowing along the way.

This book by Ester and Jerry Hicks, with the insight and wisdom of Abraham is thought provoking, informative and a book that will touch you and offer you insight into creating in your own life through deliberate intent and the act of allowing. Having read this book, I will certainly look forward to reading others by them.

 

The Times of Our Lives

I picked up “The Times of Our Lives” yesterday and I’ve been so touched by it’s content that I read it in 24 hours! The book is put together by Louise L Hay of Hay House.

The book is touching and deeply moving. It is compiled of pieces by many authors, spiritual and medical professionals, including extraordinary moments and experiences in their lives or the lives of someone they know. I found it so beautiful and touching that I want to get copies for others. As well as being a deeply inspiring book a portion of the proceeds go to charity.

This is a quote from the back cover of the book

These are stories reflecting metaphysical miracles, momentous milestones, heartwarming, humerous, and sometimes heartbreaking reminiscences; and extraordinary poignant personal accounts.

 

Live What You Love notes from an unusual life

Today I discovered the most amazing thing, Bob and Melinda Blanchard, who wrote “A Trip to the Beach” and “Live What You Love, notes from an unusual life.” have a website devoted to inspiring and sharing examples of how others have followed their path of doing what they love to change their lives!

The website is http://www.livewhatyoulove.com Look to the right on my blog roll of great websites and you will find a link. I’m impresed with the continual inspiration their lives offer each of us in a search to create what we love in our own lives. Read their books and check out the website!

 

A Very Cool Book

I just learned of this book and this man’s incredibly passion for educating the children of the world. I can’t wait to read the book and learn more about how this man’s passion and dream changed his life and the lives of others in Nepal and with time others around the world.

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World; An Entrepreneuer’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children By John Wood

 

Jump In

Jump In!
By: Mark Burnett

This is an excellent book! This is my second time to read it, and I find Mark Burnett both intelligent and very inspirational. This book is a pleasure to read and very insightful for those who are striving toward creating a successful and adventerous life for themselves. Mark Burnett has created his success by working hard, believing in himself and taking risks that he felt were right for him.

 

Live What You Love

Living my own overseas adventure in Berlin, Germany.

Live What You Love
notes from an unusual life
By Bob and Melinda Blanchard

This book is incredibly inspiring for those who are trying to create their own dreams. This is their second book. Their first, “A Trip to the Beach” detailed their journey of moving to the caribbean island of Anguilla and their adventure of opening a restaurant on the island. Both books are honest, humerous, inviting and inspiring for those who dream of creating their own way to move away from the ordinary, to a dream of having a life that is fulfilling and satisfying.

This is a quote from “Live What You Love”

Drawing from experience, we’ve identified four checkpoints in life that help us connect our dreams with reality. We affectionately call these checkpoints the Big 4: PASSION, PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT, AND MONEY, and like the pistons in your car engine, they should all be in proper working order and running smoothly. We’ve always tried to live our life guided by our passions, surrounded by people we love and living in places we enjoy. We try not to put more emphasis on any one of the Big 4 -they are all important – although we feel strongly that money should always come last. Money’s primary function is to make the other three possible.

 

Who Moved My Cheese?

I have read the book,

Who Moved My Cheese
a few times, and have owned it for several years. Each time I read it I’m touched by both it’s simplicity and it’s truth. Today this quote touched me and I wanted to share it.

Haw looked down the dark passageway and was aware of his fear. What lay ahead? Was it empty? Or worse were there dangers lurking? He began to imagine all kinds of frightening things that could happen to him. He was scaring himself to death.

Then he laughed at himself. He realized his fears were making things worse. So he did what he would do if he wasn’t afraid. He moved in a new direction.

As he started running along the dark corrider he began to smile. Haw didn’t realize it yet, but he was discovering what nourished his soul. He was letting go and trusting what lay ahead for him, even though he didn’t know exactly what it was.”

 

God is in the Refrigerator

I recently purchased a wonderful children’s book called

God is in the Refrigerator”

This book is a children’s book, It shows through Kimberly King’s story how God is there for us. It shares how he is guiding us and helps us in our moments of need or darkness.

The book is beautifully done and very touching. I thought it a wonderful book to recommend for parents looking for ways to show how God is in our lives.

 

Island Wise

Plumeria flowers on the Big Island of Hawaii

There is a book I love, that I keep on my dresser. When I want an uplifting quick read about the islands of the world I open this book to a random page and for a moment I am transported back to the islands I’ve lived on and loved in my life.

Today my random page in “Island Wise”
“lessons in living from the islands of the world” is from the island of Jamaica.

“The first thing I do when I come to Jamaica is to bury my watch in the suitcase and set my inner clock to the islands pure tropical tranquility-that slow cooking joy that the islanders create just by viewing time in their own unique way.”

“Dr. Breeze is their name for the trade winds that blow in over the Caribbean Sea to cool an island day. The doctor just makes everything feel “irie” they say, i.e., simply wonderful. And if the bus, your dinner, or your guide is late, someone calmly says, “Soon come.” Translation: It’ll happen sooner or later, just relax.”

“It doesn’t take long to begin to appreciate this “soon come” take on life. It’s the essence of island time.”

 

“A Year by the Sea”

Sometimes grief is not only from a death. Sometimes grief comes with the loss of a relationship or the realization that a relationship is changing and you’re at a cross roads where you have to determine whether you can heal a relationship or whether it will end. It wont be the same depth of grief, yet it will be a grieving process just the same.

A Year by the Sea

is a thought provoking book about the transformations a woman goes through in her life. Joan and her husband are at a crossroads when they separate with him taking a promotion in a different part of the country and Joan moving into their summer cottage on Cape Cod. The book details the journey of Joan’s life during the year she lives at Cape Cod and the transitions she makes personally and within her relationship with her husband.

I felt this was an excellent autobiography for anyone contemplating their own life transitions or transformations. It was moving, realistic and thought provoking. She has written one or two others since this one.