As an author, speaker, and teacher of love, my life purpose revolves around the belief that love and acceptance are the keys to healing the world. I have been blessed with the privilege of traveling the globe, sharing messages of love and healing with audiences of many cultures and beliefs. My message is simple, positive thinking and self-love are the keys to freedom, peace, and joy. I firmly believe that Love is the source and substance of the universe; it is how we got here and what sustains us. My aim is that these recommendations provide you with inspiration and/or instruction on expanding your love for personal and global healing.
I believe this old world is headed for a fall unless people learn to love unconditionally. I have always loved the power of metaphor to answer unanswerable questions, so the book is a mix of fiction and nonfiction, including myth, fairytale, creation stories, and personal stories of transformation. Built on a cornerstone of the story of the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy’s journey of self-examination and discovery. I see Dorothy’s visit to Oz as a near-death experience brought on by a head injury that led her to get up close and personal with her assumed shortcomings. I can promise many aha moments as I reveal unique and eye-opening aspects of Oz, creation, and the way home to peace profound.
Stuck in a continuous cycle of the same old going nowhere stuff and looking for a way out. The way out appeared as a gift from a friend, You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise Hay.
I first shared a few brief moments with the book, as one does on a blind date that results in love before the evening is done, and the date continues to this day.
I developed a deeply intimate, open, and honest relationship with the wisdom offered here. Through a kind of gentle “pillow talk,” Louise taught me to love myself, forgive myself and others, let go of the past, and trust the future. My relationship with this book transformed my life, and it just keeps getting better. May it do the same for you.
Over 50 million lives transformed worldwide! This seminal classic explores how positive thought and affirmations can inspire your own healing, wellbeing and happiness.
Full of ideas and strategies that have worked for millions of people worldwide. You Can Heal Your Life, the definitive bestselling book on self-healing, has transformed the lives of millions of people. This is a book that people credit with profoundly altering their awareness of the impact that the mind has on our health and wellbeing.
In this inspirational work, world renowned teacher Louise L. Hay offers profound insight into the relationship between the mind and the…
Common self-talk: I am such an idiot! I am too fat, thin, short, or tall. Etc., etc., etc.
Ever feel like your brain is stuck in a negative thought cycle, trapped in a never-ending loop of doom and gloom? That was me until I discovered the awesome power of affirmations learned from this book.
Dr. Crane playfully uses a metaphor of a Cosmic Kitchen with all the ingredients needed to whip up a healthy mental diet that made me feel and experience a more satisfying life. With positive affirmations as ready-made recipes, I was cooking up joyfulness in no time.
I also learned how to gather and blend my unique ingredients for a mental diet tailored just for me. It's like being your very own mental MasterChef!
This book uses the playful image of the Universe like a Cosmic Kitchen, just waiting to take and fulfill your orders by means of affirmations and visualizations. The eight principles for placing effective orders with the Cosmic Kitchen are applied to career, prosperity, relationships, health, traveling, and finding your perfect home. It explains how to use the Law of Attraction and why affirmations together with feelings are the most powerful combination for achieving your dreams. The final chapters cover: why the Kitchen sometimes gives you lemons (negative experiences) and what to do when that happens, plus how your affirmations and…
Having been raised in a dysfunctional, mostly loveless environment, I arrived at adulthood starved for love, a perfect setup for failed codependent relationships.
Finally, around age 45, rich love lessons began to find their way to me, not the least of which was this life-saving book. Dr. Buscaglia was the first and perhaps only university professor to teach love. He convinced USC to let him teach a class dedicated to love, and only two years later, his course, Love 101, was maxed out with 200 students and a waitlist of 600.
Mainly consisting of lecture transcripts delivered to people of many ages and backgrounds, you will find the content warm, gracious, humorous, and humble. So, open your heart and mind, and be prepared to receive the wonder of love.
A collection of lectures by New York Times bestselling author, professor, and PBS motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving, & Learning combines essential insights and teaching anecdotes to create a delightfully informative text on how to love.
Living, Loving, & Learning is the only complete collection of Leo Buscaglia's popular lectures, originally delivered via in-person talks and eventually broadcast to worldwide audiences on PBS. Drawing on his personal life and including practical experience gathered while teaching his renowned "Love Class" at the University of Southern California, Buscaglia's personal stories are amusing and informative depictions of how to live a life…
As a lover of Rumi poetry, I was carried away by this book!
It is not, however, a book of poetry but a historical fiction about a transforaminal “love affair” between Shams of Tabrizi, a mystic Sufi wander, and the thirteenth-century Maulana Jalal-Ud-Din, Rumi, a traditional Islamic Cleric. This love relationship is not one we are used to hearing about but a genuine divine connection for spiritual elevation.
There are two fascinating novels in one, a contemporary story about a woman in a mid-life crisis on the edge of divorce and an empty nest, finding herself drawn into an outside relationship with a Scottish novelist, and his book Sweet Blasphemy.
Shafak seamlessly weaves love stories, a murder mystery, religious intrigue, mystical poetry, and contemporary and fourteenth-century family drama in a book I could not put down.
The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics
*One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped the World'*
"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..."
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is…
Recently I was blessed to meet the authors of this refreshing book. We immediately discovered our shared interest in love as a way of life and traded books on the topic.
I quickly learned thatAbsolute Love is a valuable resource for learning to live through love. I read most books for entertainment or information and then put them away. However, I find this one so inspiring that I now keep it on my desk, referring to it daily for heart-opening reminders about love and acceptance.
Each chapter offers well-crafted affirmations that can, with practice, gently shift our worldviews from fear to love and compassion. Precisely what is needed for world peace.
Bonus: Each chapter offers lessons on how to apply love to your personal and business life, what a blessing!
I’m an old guy. I say this with a bit of cheek and a certain amount of incongruity. All the books on my list are old. That’s one area of continuity. Another, and I’ll probably stop at two, is that they all deal with ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances—those curveballs of life we flail at with an unfamiliar bat; the getting stuck on the Interstate behind a semi and some geezer in a golf cap hogging the passing lane in a Buick Le Sabre. No one makes it through this life unscathed. How we cope does more to define us than a thousand smiles when things are rosy. Thus endeth the lesson.
Nine Stories Told Completely in Dialogue is a unique collection of narratives, each unfolding entirely through conversations between its characters. The book opens with "God on a Budget," a tale of a man's surreal nighttime visitation that offers a blend of the mundane and the mystical. In "Doctor in the House," readers are plunged into the emotionally charged moment when an oncologist delivers a life-altering diagnosis to a patient. The collection then shifts to "Prisoner 8086," a story about the unlikely friendship that blossoms between a prison volunteer and a habitual offender, exploring themes of redemption and human connection.
The heart of the book continues with "The Reunion," a touching narrative about high school sweethearts reuniting, stirring up poignant memories and unspoken feelings. "The Therapy Session" adds a lighter touch, presenting a serio-comic exchange between a therapist and a challenging patient. In "The Fishing Trip," a father imparts crucial life lessons to his daughter during an eventful outing, leading to unexpected consequences. "Mortality" offers a deeply personal moment as a mother shares a cherished, secret story from her past with her son.
The collection then takes a romantic turn in "The Singles Cruise," where two individuals find connection amidst shared stories on a cruise for singles. Finally, "Jesus and Buddha in the Garden of Eden" provides a satirical, thought-provoking encounter in the afterlife between two spiritual figures. The book concludes with "The Breakup," a nuanced portrayal of a young couple's separation, told from both perspectives, encapsulating the complexities of relationships and the human experience.
Nine Stories Told Completely in Dialogue is a unique collection of narratives, each unfolding entirely through conversations between its characters. The book opens with "God on a Budget," a tale of a man's surreal nighttime visitation that offers a blend of the mundane and the mystical. In "Doctor in the House," readers are plunged into the emotionally charged moment when an oncologist delivers a life-altering diagnosis to a patient. The collection then shifts to "Prisoner 8086," a story about the unlikely friendship that blossoms between a prison volunteer and a habitual offender, exploring themes of redemption and human connection.
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