Reading & Listening Recommendations Spiritual Development / Spiritual Growth
Regardless of your specific religious preferences, enhancing your spiritual development and growth is essential to establishing a full and balanced life.
Following are some recommendations for gaining greater insight into the spiritual dimension of life, including how to integrate it with the mental, emotional, physical and financial aspects.
(Note: You can click on the name or the picture of any book to find out more about it or to purchase it.)
Spiritual Development / Spiritual Growth
There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
by Wayne W. Dyer
Wayne Dyer has compiled in this book several concepts which are of immense value to anyone who seeks the confidence, power, and fulfillment that comes with spiritual maturity. With his usual mix of enthusiasm, optimism, and anecdote, Dr. Dyer emphasizes that we are in control of our life experiences. Quoting everything from the Bible to The Tao of Pooh, he returns continually to his central point: with truth and self-awareness, all things are possible, including physical healing, improved relationships, and great personal accomplishment.
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
by Deepak Chopra
Chopra's teachings are distilled into seven simple principles which can be applied to all elements of personal life to evoke success. Based on seven natural laws that govern all creation, this book shatters the myth that success results only from hard work, exacting plans, and driving ambition. The essential principle is that personal understanding and harmony promote fulfilling relationships and material abundance without extra effort. Each chapter is devoted to one law, and each law has three supporting ideas that are recapped at the end of the chapter. Regardless of your religious beliefs, the laws make sense and resonate in a very natural way.
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
by Dan Millman
With this clear, straightforward guide, Dan Millman tells listeners how to see the spiritual in everyday life: how to achieve the self-esteem to want more; rediscover the will to do; learn to welcome money into their lives; accept their emotions as they are; see how fear can lead to courage; recognize how everyday acts can serve as a path to God; understand how serving others will complete the circle of life; and more.
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and It's All Small Stuff
by Richard Carlson
Subtitled "Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking over Your Life," this book offers 100 meditations designed to make you appreciate being alive, keep your emotions (especially anger and dissatisfaction) in proper perspective, and cherish other people as the unique miracles they are. It's an owner's manual of the heart.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
This is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable. "Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening.
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar... He helps Richard discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places--like hay fields, tiny midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.
