Great Books to Accompany You on Your Path

 

Books are our companions, always there when we need them.  Many

get and better with each visit, some are there just at the right moment and that is it....but they are always a gift.  Below is a non-comprehensive list of some of my good friends who have offered sage advice. I am hoping that some will become mutual friends!

 

May they give you inspiration, insight, courage, and confidence that there are many wayshowers.  You are never alone in your search.

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As Mr. Franklin says, "The doors of wisdom are never shut"....

 

 

Compassionate, Mindful, Joyful Living

 

Let Your Voice Speak,  Listening for the Voice of Vocation,  Parker Palmer

 

Radical Acceptance, Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha,  Tara Brach, PhD

 

Naikan, Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection,  Greg Krech

 

A Path With Heart,  A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life,  Jack Kornfield

 

Start Where You Are, A Guide to Compassionate Living,  Pema Chodron

 

Emptiness Dancing, Adyashanti

 

Bouncing Back, Rewiring Your Brain For Maximum Resilience and Well-Being,  Linda Graham

 

Tales of a Wounded Healer, Mariah Fenton Gladis

 

At Home in Muddy Water, A Guide to Finding Peace within Everyday Chaos, Ezra Bayda

 

Crucial Conversations, Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Kerry Patterson

 

Loving Kindness, The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, Sharon Salzberg

 

Buddha's Brain, Rick Hanson

 

 

Movement, Breath and Body

 

Body Stories, A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, Andrea Olsen

 

Body and Earth, An Experiential Guide, Andrea Olsen

 

How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness, Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank

 

The Breathing Book, Donna Farhi

 

Centered and Connected, A Therapeutic Approach to Mind-Body Awareness, Thea Rytz

 

Moving From Within, A New Method For Dance Making, Alma Hawkins

 

The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy, Working with Movement, Metaphor and Meaning, Daria Halprin

 

The Serpent and the Wave, A Guide to Movement Meditation, Jalaja Bonheim

 

Life on Land, The Story of Continuum, Emilie Conrad

 

 

Creativity and Healing

 

Life, Paint and Passion, Michelle Cassou

 

Point Zero Painting, Michelle Cassou

 

Painting From the Source,  Aviva Gold

 

SoulCollage Evolving, An Intuitive Collage Process for Self-Discovery & Community,  Seena Frost

 

Healing with the Arts, Drs. Michael Samuels and Mary Rockwood Lane

 

Women Who Run with The Wolves, Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

 

Art is a Way of Knowing, Pat B. Allen

 

Art is a Spiritual Path, Pat B. Allen

 

Centering, In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person, MC Richards

 

Free Play, The Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts, Stephen Nachmanovitch

 

 

Poetry

 

The Gift, Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, Daniel Ladinsky

 

Love Poems from God, Twelve Sacred Voices From the East and West, Daniel Ladinsky

 

To Bless the Space Between Us,  A Book of Blessings,  John O’Donohue

 

Go In and In, Poems From the Heart of Yoga, Donna Faulds

 

Silent Sacred Holy Deepening Heart, Em Claire