Spiritual Books

lil_man,

These are the books I’ve read, and they’ve helped me a lot. I’ll put them in order of MY preference, buy everyone get something different from them.

1. Caught between two worlds – Scott Russell Hill
2. The Celestine Prophecy – James Redfield
3. Way of the Peaceful Warrior – Dan Millman
4. The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz
5. I’m Not Really Here – Tim Allen (The Toolman)
6. The Path of Transformation – Shakti Gawain

I’ve read pleanty more, some very strange ones too, but I found these worked for me.

Just a personal thought, each of us is already a spiritual being, and some on the path wear their teachings like a new jacket to show off. Beware these people. Your journey is yours and yours alone and the map of your way is within, trust that, never an outside source. Listen to advice, but trust the wisdom of your heart.

Good luck

Karl

The only thing that limits us…is a limiting belief.

When I was ever so very young, I remember the odd bed time story that would rouse the spiritual passions of a young lad. Now what were they? Oh yes.
1. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin.
2. The Art of War. Sun Tzu.
3. The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli.
4. The House of the Dead. Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
5. Fear and Trembling. Soren Kierkegaard.
6. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. Jim Corbett.
7. Nausea. Jean-Paul Sartre.
8. Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler.
….and if I was really good that day I could be heard just nodding off to the last page of ‘F. Scott Fitzgeralds’ ‘The Great Gatsby”!!!
Cheers,
Gats!

lil_man,

I just wanted to say that is the cutest avatar ever- good job!

Suppose I should go on topic… [baaa] the only thing remotely spiritual that resonates with me is Desiderata.

http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/desiderata.html

kay henry

There is a book called “Powerful Changes!” by John Burley (investor) and Bryan Fergus (wrote a book called the Spirituality of Welth). It should be in most bookstores.

It’s good, but have a flip through it and see if it was you want.

Also the Celestine Prophecy and Thick Face, Black Heart are good books too.

Rgds.
Lucifer_au

It’s great that you take the initiative to read books in order to change the way you think and the above postings probably have already got enough books for you to read in the coming few months so I don’t have any book to recommend.

One comment though, is that just reading book is not enough. You may want to associate with like-minded people and learn from each other.

While not spiritual, a book I liked that hasn’t been mentioned is Dale Carnegie’s “How To Win Friends And Influence People”.

Some of the biography style books by successful business people can be interesting too. I read one by Lee Iacocca (the man who turned Chrysler Motors around from near bankruptcy) which was good. It wasn’t his autobiography, but the “Straight Talking” one.

GP

Hi Bj

i recommend the BIG one, the Bible, read the first books in the new testament which is the stories of the life of Jesus. If you want something that will change the way you think you can’t go past this man.

regards westan

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I just finished The Camino by Shirley Maclaine.

(it’s about how she did the famous 700k plus pilgrimage on foot through northern spain at the age of 62, which heaps of saints of old did too, and of course she had heaps of incredible experiences on the way! As you do, apparently!!)

If you’ve read her other books you’ll know the kind of thing but this one is the BEST, deepest, and freakiest yet of hers, (though I also love the one where she does the Andes, Lima etc)

Re the Camino, I’m still digesting it actually, the ‘freaky stuff’ she recounts in the book actually makes sense of a whole lot of stuff for me and ties it all in. The Bible, science and history included. It’s jumped to the top of my ‘great spiritual books’ list…

for more middle of the road fare, I agree with Celestine Prophecy as a great novel, not so much as a literary work, but for the EFFECT it has on one. I also loved Way of the Peaceful Warrior by dan Millman, and actually also got a LOT out of his semi-obscure second book, Spiritual journey of the peaceful warrior I think it’s called, anyway the one that’s kind of a work-book.

I also LOVE the one minute millionaire which I have been buying for friends on a regular basis lately – and they’re then buying it for their friends! it’s that kind of book, because it really does make stuff click. Especially if you’ve been reading too many ‘straight’ wealth creation books and have the dollar signs in your eyes, it kind of puts the focus back on the point being to be abundant so you can give back to the community, which was the ‘missing link’ for me which I loved getting from that book. And fun to read, with the choice of reading the right hand pages, the left hand pages, or both, depending on what kind of learner you are! and to me it’s even overtaken Kiyosaki as my fave wealth creation book because it ALSO has a spiritual vibe behind it, however it’s really nicely threaded through the book without being offensive to anyone’s faith (I reckon).

I have read a lot of other freaky stuff too,

joy to the world

I agree with Westan and Housesonly. How can a book written 2000 years ago still be so valid today?! Will change your life.

Ian