Earlier this year I thought picking my top 5 books for 2016 would be an easy task. Because of lots of travel (that’s me snowshoeing at Lake Louise, Canada in March) I just didn’t read that many books in the first half of the year. But I went on a book reading binge at year’s end, many fine books, which …
Monthly Archives: December 2016
“We, the collective we, have perceived GOD to be an inaccessible superhuman, which locates GOD outside and beyond us,” writes Linda Martella-Whitsett in the introduction of her book Divine Audacity. “I propose there is no such God.” Rather the author emphasizes that the Spirit of God is within all of us, a Spirit we can tap into to live from …
This powerful little book contains the essence of Deepak Chopra’s teaching. At only 115 pages it’s a quick read divided into short chapters titled: The Law of Pure Potentiality The Law of Giving and Receiving The Law of Karma or Cause and Effect The Law of Least Effort The Law of Intention and Desire The Law of Detachment The Law …
A successful neurosurgeon with seemingly everything going for him, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 36. Before the disease claimed his life he kept a journal – a journal that became When Breath Becomes Air. In the early chapters, where Kalanithi tells of his work as a neurosurgeon, I got a sense of the life and death …