Love, love, LOVE Sarah Ban Breathnach!! I would say she's my favorite author. Certainly my favorite nonfiction author anyway. I rereading Simple Abundance this year. Read Romancing the Ordinary and Something More last summer and will probably reread those next year.
Loved the first Conversations With God as well. Really struck home for me. Have to confess though, I had a difficult time with Book 2 and never did finish it. I found it to be far too political and not enough spiritual. Wasn't what I needed at the time I guess.
Let's see, what else has really touched me?
The DaVinci Code, which I followed up with Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy have been a few very recent ones. I'd read When God Was A Woman a couple years ago. The Faith, by Brian Moynahan is also excellent for the history of Christianity. Very enlightening.
There's some fiction that's touched me as well. The Mists of Avalon. Complete fantasy, but it introduced me to the Sacred Feminine. The Earth Children series by Jean Auel. (Clan of the Cave Bear, Valley of Horses...) Those books along with a series I read just after (The First Americans? by William Sarabande?) really opened my mind and gave me a new perspective on marriage and romantic relationships.
The books that have had the most profound effect on me have been the Conversations with God books. I was completely blown away reading the first one and had bought two and three well before I had even finished it. But it can be hard to hold that feeling.
Other authors I have liked a lot have been Iyanla Vanzant's "In the Meantime". I've read it at least 3 times and plan to read it again soon. Also Diana Cooper and Gill Edwards who are both English spiritual writers. Diana's Spiritual Laws book was the first spiritual book I ever read and at the time I thought she was the oracle when it came to spiritual life, though I have expanded my horizons since then. Gill's books are easy to read and have a lot of useful exercises in them. Louise L Hay is another favourite of mine and I also intend to re-read a couple of her books again soon.
Love, love, LOVE Sarah Ban Breathnach!! I would say she's my favorite author. Certainly my favorite nonfiction author anyway. I rereading Simple Abundance this year. Read Romancing the Ordinary and Something More last summer and will probably reread those next year.
Loved the first Conversations With God as well. Really struck home for me. Have to confess though, I had a difficult time with Book 2 and never did finish it. I found it to be far too political and not enough spiritual. Wasn't what I needed at the time I guess.
Let's see, what else has really touched me?
The DaVinci Code, which I followed up with Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy have been a few very recent ones. I'd read When God Was A Woman a couple years ago. The Faith, by Brian Moynahan is also excellent for the history of Christianity. Very enlightening.
There's some fiction that's touched me as well. The Mists of Avalon. Complete fantasy, but it introduced me to the Sacred Feminine. The Earth Children series by Jean Auel. (Clan of the Cave Bear, Valley of Horses...) Those books along with a series I read just after (The First Americans? by William Sarabande?) really opened my mind and gave me a new perspective on marriage and romantic relationships.
"The Secret Life of Bees"
Shyla
You all have to read Gary Zukav's "Soul Stories".
The books that have had the most profound effect on me have been the Conversations with God books. I was completely blown away reading the first one and had bought two and three well before I had even finished it. But it can be hard to hold that feeling.
Other authors I have liked a lot have been Iyanla Vanzant's "In the Meantime". I've read it at least 3 times and plan to read it again soon. Also Diana Cooper and Gill Edwards who are both English spiritual writers. Diana's Spiritual Laws book was the first spiritual book I ever read and at the time I thought she was the oracle when it came to spiritual life, though I have expanded my horizons since then. Gill's books are easy to read and have a lot of useful exercises in them. Louise L Hay is another favourite of mine and I also intend to re-read a couple of her books again soon.
Carol
The "Conversation..." books are good, though I couldn't relate to #2 as well as #1 and #3.