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Best of the Best: My Favorite Alternative Spirituality Books of All

Okay, so these aren’t the expected choices. They’re not all classics or best sellers, or even the most substantial, information-heavy works. But I stand by my selections in this list. They’re the alternative spirituality books I liked the most. The most inspiring, the most fun to read–and the ones that helped me the most, too.

So there.

Best of the Best: My Favorite Alternative Spirituality Books of All

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell
I Need Your Love – Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them, Byron Katie and Michael Katz
Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie, Byron Katie
Conversations with God, Parts One through Three, Neale Donald Walsch
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe, Robert Lanza and Bob Berman
100 Daily Messages Volumes One through Four, Leta Hamilton and Archangel Michael
Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires, Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks and Abraham
Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel, Candace Pert
Dying to Be Me, Anita Moorjani
Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
The Search For Grace: A Documented Case of Murder and Reincarnation, Bruce Goldberg
Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More, Joe Vitale
Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives, Brian Weiss
Ten Percent Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story, Dan Harris
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh
Whatever Arises, Love That, Matt Kahn
Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable–and Couldn’t, Steve Volk
A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming, Dylan Tuccillo, Jared Zeizel and Thomas Peisel
The Shack, William Young
A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Vanauken
The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence

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Best Scientific Spiritual Books

Every day, science is merging with spirituality in new and fascinating ways. The fields of physics, neuroscience, positive psychology and many more are offering us some of the most coffee shop conversation-worthy stories out there.

When you’re in the mood to expand your scientific knowledge (to impress a date, maybe?); to learn more about various super practical, scientifically researched spiritual practices; or simply to become a smarter, more well-rounded person, flip through one or more of these awesome works. There’s so much nerdy fun in their pages. And remember: the more heavy stuff you read, the lighter the next heavy stuff gets. Kinda funny how that works, but it does.

I chose the books in the first section because they inspired me deeply, changed me for the better and helped me find greater inner peace. The second section features many of the other scientific spiritual books that come with a halfway decent recommendation of some kind, either from a friend or online.

If you come across another book that deserves to be here, do let me know.

Best Scientific Spiritual Books

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe, Robert Lanza and Bob Berman
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, Tor Nørretranders
Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, Robert Waggoner
A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming, Dylan Tuccillo, Jared Zeizel and Thomas Peisel
Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life, Stephen LaBerge
Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable–and Couldn’t, Steve Volk
How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings From a Leading Neuroscientist,
Andrew B. Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Joe Dispenza
Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d, Candace Pert
Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel, Candace Pert

Other Recommended Scientific Spiritual Books

You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter, Joe Dispenza
Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind,
Joe Dispenza
The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth, Bruce Lipton
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles, Bruce Lipton
The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology, Bruce Lipton
Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here, Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman
The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience, Andrew Newberg
Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, Andrew B. Newberg
Why We Believe What We Believe: Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth, Andrew B. Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy, Andrew B. Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience, Andrew B. Newberg and Eugene G.d’Aquili
The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness Beyond the Brain, Ervin Laszlo and Anthony Peake
Return to the Brain of Eden: Restoring the Connection between Neurochemistry and Consciousness, Tony Wright and Graham Gynn
The Quantum Doctor: A Quantum Physicist Explains the Healing Power of Integrative Medicine, Amit Goswami
Secrets of Your Cells: Discovering Your Body’s Inner Intelligence, Sondra Barret
The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet, Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox
Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, Lissa Rankin M.D.
One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters, Larry Dossey
The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes, Gregg Braden
The God Code: The Secret of our Past, the Promise of our Future, Gregg Braden
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits, Gregg Braden
The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief, Gregg Braden
How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body, David R. Hamilton

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Best Meditation Books

Best Nonfiction Book

Generally speaking, reading about meditation is much less helpful than just practicing meditation. Maybe that’s why I haven’t read as many books on this spirituality subcategory as I would like to have done.

Yeah. That must be the reason.

In any case. We all need at least a few on our spirituality bookshelf; after all, meditation is a requirement for life these days. Or at least a requirement for “being spiritual.”

And hey–there is good reason for that. First, meditation actually is as awesome as they say it is. Second, and more important: mediation isn’t just one thing. For me and many other alternative spirituality types, meditation is, well, pretty much whatever we say it is. You could walk a dog and call it a dog walking meditation; I do.

Best Meditation Books

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle
Practicing the Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Meditation Without Gurus, Clark Strand
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Pema Chodron
The Wisdom of No Escape And the Path of Loving-Kindness, Pema Chodron
Ten Percent Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story, Dan Harris
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Thich Nhat Hanh
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation: How to Reduce Stress, Get Healthy, and Find Your Happiness in Just 15 Minutes a Day, Rachel Rofe

Other Recommended Meditation Books

Pema Chodron

Always Maintain a Joyful Mind And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness, Pema Chodron
Awakening Loving-Kindness, Pema Chodron
Comfortable With Uncertainty: 108 Teachings, Pema Chodron
Don’t Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom From Anger and Other Destructive Emotions, Pema Chodron
Hooked! Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume, Pema Chodron
Living Beautifully With Uncertainty and Change, Pema Chodron
No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, Pema Chodron
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, Pema Chodron
Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves From Old Habits and Fears, Pema Chodron
The Places That Scare You: A Guide To Fearlessness, Pema Chodron
The Pocket Pema Chodron, Pema Chodron
This Moment is the Perfect Teacher: 10 Buddhist Teachings on Cultivating Inner Strength and Compassion, Pema Chodron
Tonglen: The Path of Transformation, Pema Chodron
Awakening Compassion: Meditation Practice for Difficult Times, Pema Chodron
Awakening Love: Teachings and Practices to Cultivate a Limitless Heart, Pema Chodron
Bodhisattva Mind: Teachings to Cultivate Courage and Awareness in the Midst of Suffering, Pema Chodron
Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening, Pema Chodron
Fully Alive: A Retreat with Pema Chödrön on Living Beautifully With Uncertainty and Change, Pema Chodron
From Fear to Fearlessness: Teachings on the Four Great Catalysts of Awakening, Pema Chodron
Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality, Pema Chodron
Giving Our Best: A Retreat With Pema Chödrön on Practicing the Way of the Bodhisattva, Pema Chodron
Good Medicine: How to Turn Pain Into Compassion With Tonglen Meditation, Pema Chodron
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends With Your Mind, Pema Chodron
In Conversation: On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy, Pema Chodron
Karma: Finding Freedom in This Moment, Pema Chodron
Natural Awareness: Guided Meditations and Teachings for Welcoming All Experience, Pema Chodron
No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, Pema Chodron
Noble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles, Pema Chodron
Practicing Peace in Times of War, Pema Chodron
Pure Meditation: The Tibetan Buddhist Practice Of Inner Peace, Pema Chodron
Smile at Fear: A Retreat with Pema Chödrön on Discovering Your Radiant Self-Confidence, Pema Chodron
The Pema Chödrön Collection, Pema Chodron
The Three Commitments: Walking the Path of Liberation, Pema Chodron
The Truth of Our Existence: Four Teachings from the Buddha to Illuminate Your Life, Pema Chodron
True Happiness, Pema Chodron
Unconditional Confidence For Meeting Any Experience With Trust and Courage, Pema Chodron
Walking the Walk: Putting the Teachings Into Practice When it Matters Most, Pema Chodron
When Pain is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances, Pema Chodron

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The Power of Meditation and Prayer, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sogyal Rinpoche, Larry Dossey, and Michael Toms
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn
Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Myla Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness, J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Arriving at Your Own Door, Jon Kabat-Zinn
Living Buddha, Living Christ, Thich Nhat Hanh
Letting Everything Become Your Teacher: 100 Lessons in Mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Mind’s Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard Davidson

Sharon Salzberg

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, Sharon Salzberg
Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program, Sharon Salzberg
Heart as Wide as the World, Sharon Salzberg
Voices of Insight, Sharon Salzberg
Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, Sharon Salzberg
The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love and Compassion, Sharon Salzberg
The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion, Sharon Salzberg
Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace, Sharon Salzberg
Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier, Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman

Joseph Goldstein

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation, Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield
The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation, Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, Joseph Goldstein
The Path of Insight Meditation, Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield
Insight Meditation: A Step-By-Step Course on How to Meditate, Joseph Goldstein, with Sharon Salzberg
One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism, Joseph Goldstein
A Heart Full of Peace, Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield

Thich Nhat Hanh

Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire, Thich Nhat Hanh
Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Sun My Heart, Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Appointment with Life: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone, Thich Nhat Hanh
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion, Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra, Thich Nhat Hanh
‘Hermitage Among the Clouds’, Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice, Thich Nhat Hanh
Cultivating The Mind Of Love, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart Of Understanding, Thich Nhat Hanh
Transformation and Healing: Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart, Thich Nhat Hanh
Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966, Thich Nhat Hanh
Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist/Christian Awareness, Thich Nhat Hanh and Daniel Berrigan
The Path of Emancipation: Talks from a 21-Day Mindfulness Retreat, Thich Nhat Hanh
A Pebble in Your Pocket, Thich Nhat Hanh
Essential Writings, Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger, Thich Nhat Hanh
Be Free Where You Are, Thich Nhat Hanh
No Death, No Fear, Thich Nhat Hanh
Touching the Earth: Intimate Conversations with the Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh
Teachings on Love, Thich Nhat Hanh
Understanding Our Mind, Thich Nhat Hanh
Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Walking Toward Enlightenment, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Art of Power, Thich Nhat Hanh
Under the Banyan Tree, Thich Nhat Hanh
Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life, Thich Nhat Hanh
Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child, Thich Nhat Hanh
You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Novice: A Story of True Love, Thich Nhat Hanh
Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh
Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Pocket, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Art of Communicating, Thich Nhat Hanh
Blooming of a Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh
No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering, Thich Nhat Hanh
Is Nothing Something?, Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindful Movements, Thich Nhat Hanh

Clark Strand

Waking up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age, Clark Strand
Waking the Buddha: How the Most Dynamic and Empowering Buddhist Movement in History Is Changing Our Concept of Religion, Clark Strand
How to Believe in God: Whether You Believe in Religion or Not, Clark Strand
The Wooden Bowl: Simple Meditations for Everyday Life, Clark Strand
Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey, Clark Strand

Other Authors

Oneness With All Life, Eckhart Tolle
Guardians of Being, Eckhart Tolle
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, David Lynch
Zen Meditation in Plain English, John Daishin Buksbazen
Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening, Stephen Batchelor
The Zen Way, Myokyo-ni
How to Be a Yogi, Swami Abhedananda
The Way of Zen, Alan Watts
Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships, Osho
Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World, Surya Das

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I really don’t know how to be humble.

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Reading the wonderful Matt Kahn’s book, Whatever Arises, Love That. (Great title, eh?) So, the main message is to send love to whatever comes up in your experience, which is what Eckhart Tolle, my friend Leta Hamilton, and many others agree is one of the most useful spiritual practices you can do.

And man, I super suck at it.

I don’t love a lot of things. A whole lot of things. My ego is just always–right–there. I can’t let go of my opinion long enough to love what is, even though I know that doing so is the core definition of humility.

I really don’t know how to be humble. But I’m working on it.

Self-Help Success Story: Leta Hamilton: “If I Don’t Love It, I Love That I Don’t Love It”

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Contributor: Author Leta Hamilton, whose books include The Way of the Toddler and a four-book series called 100 Daily Messages.

Me: Sometimes it’s hard for me to love his thing we call God, or to even know whether I should. I mean, maybe just loving people is enough. Yes? No? How do you love God, when there’s no face to God?

Leta: I love God as a force at the heart of life. I feel it as a breathtakingly spiritual power at the center of all things, beyond faces, physicality or form. It is not human. It is like Chi of Taoism. It is everywhere, in everything (including me) and part of all expressions of existence. It is like electricity. It is. It has a quality to it that is all-powerful and God-like in a conventional sense of that word. However, it is beyond anthropomorphism. It cannot be labeled as anything “human” in any way, shape or form. It has Presence in my life without form. It is real like my hand is real, but in a way that defies logic or rational explanations. It is the ineffable.

I am constantly connected to this force and love it with every bit of my being. It brings everything good and wonderful into my life and it is everything–even things that others call “bad,” “unlucky,” “tragedy,” “dis-ease” and so on. These are great gifts from my perspective. They are things that come as ways to grow into myself and ever more close to that God-force I have been talking about. It is love for love’s sake. I have no agenda in it. My name for it is God because that makes the most sense.

Me: Do you have a go-to image or set of images that mean “God” to you?

Leta: No. It is life force. It has no feeling to it that can be described. It has a quality to it that is called “bliss” by the masters and gurus of our planet, but even that cannot adequately describe it. It is subjective and experiential. I would say that I am feeling the same thing that others have described as bliss or enlightenment, but I choose to call it nothing and just experience it. To love your life is enough. I won’t call myself blissed-out or in an enlightened state. I am loving life with my breaths. That is enough.

Me: I love God, too–but I really love LIFE. To me, the definition of God is LIFE. Is that what you mean?

Leta: I mean life and more than life. I mean what makes life possible at all. I mean the divine miracle that life is thrust upon the canvas of All That Is. I mean the interconnectedness of all life across all the cosmos. I mean the thing that exists before life is even a thought and the thing that will be there when all life is singing the swan song of existence. I mean the totality of all dimensions, realms of experience and planes of existence–including the multidimensions of the angelic realms and non-physical planes of existence on this planet (elemental beings). I mean the totality of ALL THAT IS. I cannot explain it any other way. God is a way to describe all of that and MORE. It is close as my breath and beyond anything my brain can comprehend. It is real to me. I cannot say it any other way.

Me: You love all that you see, all the time?

Leta: Yes. Pretty much. And if I don’t love it, I love that I don’t love it. Then I go into myself and contemplate until understanding comes. It takes years sometimes. All the while, I have fun!

Leta

Self-Help Success Story: Leta Hamilton: “I Realized That Suffering Is My Friend”

Contributor: Author Leta Hamilton, whose books include The Way of the Toddler and a four-book series called 100 Daily Messages.

Me: You once told me that “God is in the poopy diapers.” We were talking about motherhood and such, and you said it casually, but it stuck with me. What exactly did you mean by that?

Leta: David R. Hawkins (Power vs. Force) talks about the perfection of the rusty old garbage can. It is old and rusty, but it is perfect as that. So I think about my life like that. When I have to walk to dog as I did this morning and I think to myself, “I don’t want to be walking this dog,” I am perfectly perfect in that sweet desire not to be doing what I am doing. It is like the rusty garbage can–rusty AND perfect.

When I ask myself, “What do I want?” these answers come up: I want to be with God. I want to expand. I want to find ways to go deeper inside myself and discover new epiphanies along the way.

So what does God do? Gives me opportunities for that. When I see this, I see how the walking of the dog is an answer to that prayer. I see how my kids are the Universe bringing me what I wanted in the form of spiritual supply. I see how the poopy diapers and 4 a.m. wake-up time for the dog to go out are exactly what I had asked for.

Perfect, perfect, perfect IS the rusty garbage can, the dog that I don’t really want, the work in the evening to get homework done when I all I want to do is retreat away from kids for a while and so much more I call “imperfect.”

I have these feelings like, “ugh,” at walking the dog. I think about them, acknowledge them and then see how they are opportunities for me to expand through insights and epiphanies. I realized this morning how win-win it is to walk the dog even though I wanted to be anywhere else! I also checked out a Tich Nach Han CD from the library & he was talking about walking meditations and I focused on that this morning too.

When I had this epiphany it came mostly because I was desperate for a pee. I realized that when I had to pee, I had to focus entirely on getting myself to a place where I could go pee. All that was in my mind was, “Make it back to the car, get the dog in the car and get into Value Village where there is a bathroom.” I was focused in that suffering. I had no other room in my mind for any other thoughts. Then I thought about how liberating suffering can be. It focuses the mind. It creates the conditions where nothing else is flooding us other than that one, focused, thought. I was grateful. I wasn’t busy in my mind. I was truly meditating. It was a meditation of suffering and it was very focusing. Then, I realized that once I peed, I’d have all this space in my mind to be bogged down with all kinds of other thoughts like, “What are we going to have for dinner?” I thought about the moment of freedom from my suffering, but that would also allow a new kind of suffering to come in–the suffering of the busy, chattering, monkey mind.

I realized that suffering was my friend also. It was just as much a part of my liberation as my moments of peace in the heart. When I have expansive perspective, I see that suffering and peace are the same. They are both focus and awareness, one in the direction of “I don’t want this” and one in the direction of “I do want this.” But the coin is the same: eternal being-ness.

With that, I have to go collect my son from preschool, then get home to the dog, then go grocery shopping, then go home again and …. It’s up in the air, but it will be okay however it works out. Hope I don’t find poop in the house when I get back, but I might and it’s going to be a perfect thing no matter what.

Leta

Best Spiritual Memoirs

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Take a deep breath, and prepared to be awed: you’ve just entered my favorite room in my whole library.

What’s that, you say? It looks sort of–normal? But look again, won’t you? There in the corner: my old, ripped green sofa. The fireplace. The ringed coffee table by the window with the lamp that has just the right amount of light. There’s the book with creases and stains from my baby’s spitup.

No, there are no high ceilings here. No stained glass, no ancient works of art. This place is for the everyman. The plain folk.

This is where people like us are allowed to speak.

It’s a beautiful room, but its shelves aren’t yet full. The world needs more spirituality memoirs–many more. And as long as it keeps providing them, I’ll keep reading them–and updating this list.

I chose the books in the first section because they inspired me deeply, changed me for the better, and helped me find greater inner peace. The second section features all of the other spirituality memoirs I’ve come across in the spiritual-but-not-religious sector but may not have read yet. And I do mean all of them. (Like I said: we need lots more.)

By the way, a few of these memoirs come from a Christian, rather than a spiritual-but-not-religious, perspective. Sometimes you just gotta make exceptions.

Best Spiritual Memoirs

Autobiography of A Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
Learning to Eat Along the Way, Margaret Bendet
Sex, Drugs and Meditation: How One Woman Changed Her Life, Saved Her Job and Found a Husband, Mary-Lou Stephens
Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
Plan B, Anne Lamott
Grace, Eventually, Anne Lamott
Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace, Anne Lamott
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair, Anne Lamott
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, Anne Lamott
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year, Anne Lamott
Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage,
Elizabeth Gilbert
Love Warrior, Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior, Glennon Doyle
How To Stay Married: The Adventures of a Woman Who Learnt to Travel Light in Life, Love and Relationships, Mary-Lou Stephens
Devotion: A Memoir, Dani Shapiro
The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It, Geneen Roth
Confessions of A Latter-Day Virgin, Nicole Hardy
Mennonite in A Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen
The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul: A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire, Noelle Oxenhandler
A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis
A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Vanauken
Tremendous Trifles, G.K. Chesterton
The Cross and the Switchblade, David Wilkerson
The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence
He Came to Set the Captives Free, Rebecca Brown
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, Jill Bolte Taylor
Man’s Search for Meaning,
Victor Frankl
A Field Guide to Happiness: What I Learned in Bhutan about Living, Loving and Waking Up,
Linda Leaming
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom

Other Recommended Spiritual Memoirs

Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life, Priscilla Warner
Medicine Dance: One Woman’s Healing Journey into the World of Native American Sweatlodges, Drumming Meditations and Dance Fasts, Marsha Scarbrough
Girl in the Woods: A Memoir, Aspen Matis

Chasing Spirits: The Building of the “Ghost Adventures” Crew, Nick Groff and Jeff Belanger
Grief, Meth, Addiction, God & Zen: A 45 Year Old Man’s Journey With Death, Reality & Recovery, David Carlyle and Cynthia Sharp
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint
The Ghosts and the Path: A Buddhist Monk’s Memoir, Ngawang Khechog
Meditations of a Modern Mystic, Maurine Doerken
The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism and Online Dating, Kiera Van Gelder
From Brooklyn to Benares and Back: A Spiritual Memoir, Dada Vedaprajinananda
On the Edge: Living with an Enlightened Master, Yoga Punya
I: A Meditation and a Memoir, Wiz Ji
Walking Home: A Pilgrimage from Humbled to Healed, Sonia Choquette
The Curve of the World: Into the Spiritual Heart of Yoga: A Memoir, Andy Douglas

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Something I may or may not have learned since last Sunday

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Ever since getting into this New Thought/New Age spirituality thing, I’ve been confused about something: If God isn’t God as I once thought him to be, but instead the substance of all that is and ever will be, who should I be praying to? I’ve been praying to God, since presumably the message still gets through. But it doesn’t feel quite right. Well, earlier this week, I remembered some advice from Kryon to talk out loud to the many angels and guides that surround us constantly … and so, that is what I did. I imagined a group of real beings with individuality and personality listening to me and going to work on my behalf (since, again, presumably that’s what they do). Beings who know me, like me, and are like me–not some ethereal love-fluff in the air.

It felt right. I felt heard. It made sense.

I think I really learned something here.

(Anyone else prefer this kind of prayer?)

170 Law of Attraction Success Stories

About ten years ago, I gathered a bunch of law of attraction success stories from my readers and created this series. At the time, I was reading all the spirituality books I could get my hands on, and noticing a lot of interesting changes for the better in my own life. I wanted to keep the positive stuff coming.

Since my law of attraction phase, my perspective on the concept has shifted a bit. I don’t know how much God or the universe or quantum mechanics has to do with our tendency to manifest what we visualize. These days, it seems to me that the law of attraction works because of the power of our minds. We know what we’re capable of, and what opportunities might come our way. Then we imagine the best of those things and seek out ways to bring them to us.

Sure, it sometimes seems like magic, or God, or the larger intentions of the universe–and maybe sometimes it is. But I tend to believe we create our own magic by getting in touch with our intuition, which is based on innumerable observations and experiences and contains more data than any supercomputer ever built.

Or maybe it’s just subatomic particles. Who knows?

Law of Attraction Success Stories About Careers

Law of Attraction Success Story: Sarah Centrella: “I Went from Rags to Riches,” Part One

Law of Attraction Success Story: Sarah Centrella: “I Went from Rags to Riches,” Part Two

Law of Attraction Success Story: Mary Lou Stevens: “I Found My Calling in Radio”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Evan Griffith: “We Started Earning $20,000 Per Month”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Esther and Jerry Hicks: “We Made Millions”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Pam Grout: “I Got to Teach”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Jack Canfield: “I Made a Million Dollars”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “Finally, I’m Successful”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Linda Proctor: “I Reached the Top of My Profession”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Joe Vitale: “I Learned How to Command the Wealth Mindset”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got Several TV Spots for My Music”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Went from Convicted Felon to Respected Author”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Became a Successful Musician”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Sales Surpassed My Expectations”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Doubled My Income”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “We Manifested the Retirement of Our Dreams”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Spirituality Helped Me Succeed”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got an Even Better Job”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a Great Job in a New Country, Exactly as I Had Hoped”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “One of My Friends Got a Job; The Other Didn’t”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Debt Was Paid and My Felony, Forgotten”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a Job”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Started Making $1000 Per Week”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Doubled My Income”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found Steady Freelance Work”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Made It As a Magician”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a Great Job”

Law of Attraction Success Stories About Money

Law of Attraction Success Story: Evan Griffith: “We Got a Bunch of New Furniture–For Free”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Jeannette Maw: “My $1,000 Legal Bill Was Forgiven”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Jeannette Maw: “I Got a House Full of New Furniture . . . With No Bill”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Jeannette Maw: “I Manifested $1,000 in 10 Days”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found $900 on the Ground”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got Out of My Million-Dollar Debt”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Manifested a New Car”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a Check for $500”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Car Came Back to Me”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Bought a Car for Exactly the Price I Intended”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Career Got Back on Track”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Bought My Dream Car Without a Loan”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a Check in the Mail”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Sold My Home to the Right Buyers”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a Free Washer and Dryer”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “We Found the Perfect House”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Roof Got Fixed”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Bill Was Paid in Full”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a New Race Car”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found Money on the Ground”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a MacBook Pro”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Named My Own Price”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Paid Off My Mortgage”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got Some New Clothes for Free”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Sold My Condo at Just the Right Time”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found the Perfect Place to Live”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found the Perfect Piece of Land”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Family Became Financially Stable”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got an Unexpected Check for $15,000”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got an Unexpected Gift of Thousands of Dollars”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Paid Off My Mortgage in Under Ten Years”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Became a Stay-at-Home Mom”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “We Found the Right Home for Us”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found the Home of My Dreams”

Law of Attraction Success Stories About Health

Law of Attraction Success Story: “Affirmations Have Helped My Son Cope with Autism Spectrum Disorder”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Bone Spurs Disappeared”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Eczema Has Mostly Disappeared”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Daughter’s Sickness Has Improved”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Hearing Impairment Was Healed”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Started Sleeping Soundly Again”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Pain Instantly Left”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Nail Fungus Cleared Up Completely”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Cat Was Healed”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Colon Cancer Is Gone”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Warts Disappeared”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Learned How to Walk Again”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got My Sleep Back”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found the Right Surgeon–After Being Told It Was Impossible”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Was Instantly Healed”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Daughter’s Asthma Was Healed”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Don’t Get the Flu Anymore”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Goiter Shrank”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Overcame My Eating Disorder”

Law of Attraction Success Stories About Relationships

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Have a Family and a Future”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Relationship With My Father Is Healing”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Met the Man of My Dreams”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Partner Has All 21 Qualities On My List”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “Ten Years Apart, Then Suddenly, She Was There Again”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Became a Mother”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found the Husband I Always Wanted”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Manifested the Man of My Dreams”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Discovered New Friends”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Fell in Love at First Sight”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found a Great Job and My Dream Guy”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found the Love of My Life”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found Romance”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found Several Close Girlfriends”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got Pregnant”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found Friends for a Day”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Husband Became Loving and Attentive”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Met the Man of My Dreams”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Finally Found a Group of Friends”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found a Church”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Husband’s Mood Improved”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found a Wonderful Partner”

Law of Attraction Success Stories About Weight Loss And Personal Appearance

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Lost 20kg–And Found Work I Love”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Lost 70 Pounds”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Became Lean and Healthy”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Lost 12 Kilos in 3 Months”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Became Naturally Thin”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Skin Quickly Cleared Up”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Stopped Biting My Nails”

Law of Attraction Success Stories About Vacations

Law of Attraction Success Story: “We Bought a Vacation Home”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Saw Central Park”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Traveled the World”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Saw Ireland”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got to Travel”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Met Tony Robbins”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Had a Relaxing, Enjoyable and Affordable Vacation”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Manifested Superbowl Tickets”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got Steve Miller Tickets”

Law of Attraction Success Stories About Goal Achievement

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a High Score on the College Entrance Test”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Accomplished My Goals”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Vision Board Really Worked”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a Part on the TV Show Dynasty”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Won the Film Competition”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got Into My Dream School”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Son’s Math Scores Improved”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Completed My Project”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Wrote Several Books Quickly”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Accomplished My Goals”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Autistic Son Got Into the School He Needed”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Started Writing Again”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Learned to See the Good in Everything”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Learned How to Live with Ease”

Law of Attraction Success Stories About Personal Fulfillment

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Stopped Feeling Like a Failure (And I Got a New Washer and Dryer)”

Law of Attraction Success Story: Evan Griffith: “I Became a Creative Dynamo”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Started Living on Purpose”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “Everything Fell into Place”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Started Feeling Happy Again”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Became a Happy Person”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I’ve Gone to the Next Level Spiritually”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Depression Went Away”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I’m a Better Dancer–And a More Accepting Person”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Whole Life Changed”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Started Believing in My Future”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got Exactly What I Was Looking For”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Became My Highest Self”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Overcame My Shyness”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Realized I Have Everything I Need”

Other Law of Attraction Success Stories

Law of Attraction Success Story: Jack Canfield: “I Learned about the Power of Belief”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Did Several Successful Law of Attraction Experiments”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Manifested an Orange Feather”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Manifested a White Feather–Times 1,000”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Put the Law of Attraction to the Test”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “The Impossible Suddenly Became Possible”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got My Parking Spot–And So Much More”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a Free Baseball Cap”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Manifested a Snickers Bar”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got a Gift From Mimi”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got Free Food”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found a Housekeeper”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My House Got Clean–Fast”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Got Two Hours to Myself”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found the Thumb Drive I’d Lost”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Manifested the Best Double Stroller Ever”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Late Friend Spoke Through Me”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Finally Got to Watch a Movie”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Found the Perfect Shirt”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “I Trained a Wild Rabbit”

Bonus Law of Attraction Stories

Law of Attraction Success Story: Jeanette Maw: “There Isn’t Just One Right LOA Technique”

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Top Five Law of Attraction Techniques,” Part One

Law of Attraction Success Story: “My Top Five Law of Attraction Techniques,” Part Two

Best Law of Attraction Books

Here, a labor of love for you: a list of over five hundred books that deal with the law of attraction and New Thought spirituality.

I chose the books in the first section because they inspired me deeply, changed me for the better, and helped me find greater inner peace. The second section features all of the other law of attraction books I’ve come across but may not have read yet.

You’re welcome.

As far as I know, this is the most comprehensive list of its kind on the Internet. My hope is that it will help you discover books and authors you otherwise wouldn’t.

Best Law of Attraction Books

Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More, Joe Vitale
At Zero, Joe Vitale
The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay
How Quantum Physicists Build New Beliefs, Greg Kuhn
Choosing Easy World, Julia Rogers Hamrick
As a Man Thinketh, James Allen
The Secret of the Ages, Robert Collier
Think and Grow Rich, Napolean Hill
The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes
The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale
Scientific Christian Mental Practice, Emma Curtis Hopkins
The Magic of Thinking Big, David Joseph Schwartz
The Strangest Secret, Earl Nightingale

Other Recommended Law of Attraction Books: Best-Selling

Rhonda Byrne

The Power, Rhonda Byrne
The Magic, Rhonda Byrne
Hero, Rhonda Byrne

Louise Hay

You Can Create and Exceptional Life, Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson
The Magic Path of Intuition, Florence Scovel Shinn and Louise Hay
All is Well: Heal Your Body, Louise Hay
Loving Yourself to Great Health: Thoughts & Food: the Ultimate Diet, Louise Hay
You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death, Louise Hay and David Kessler
Life Loves You: 7 Spiritual Experiments to Heal Your Life, Louise Hay
I Think, I Am, Louise Hay
Heal Your Body: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them, Louise Hay
A Garden of Thoughts: My Affirmation Journal, Louise Hay
Love Yourself, Heal Your Life, Louise Hay
The Power Is Within You, Louise Hay
Heart Thoughts, Louise Hay
Loving Thoughts For Increasing Prosperity, Louise Hay
Gratitude: A Way Of Life, Louise Hay
Life! Reflections On Your Journey, Louise Hay
Living Perfect Love: Empowering Rituals For Women, Louise Hay
Heal Your Body A-Z: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Way to Overcome Them, Louise Hay
101 Ways To Health And Healing, Louise Hay

Joe Vitale

The Key: The Missing Secret for Attracting Anything You Want!, Joe Vitale
Attract Money Now, Joe Vitale
Expect Miracles, Joe Vitale
Faith, Joe Vitale
Healing Music, Joe Vitale
How to Attain Your Desires by Letting Your Subconscious Mind Work for You, Joe Vitale
How to Attain Your Desires: How to Live Life and Love It, Joe Vitale
Instant Manifestation, Joe Vitale
Life’s Missing Instruction Manual, Joe Vitale
Meet and Grow Rich, Joe Vitale
The Miracles Manual, Volumes 1-3, Joe Vitale
The Abundance Manifesto, Joe Vitale
The Attraction Factor, Joe Vitale
The Awakened Millionaire, Joe Vitale
The Awakening Course, Joe Vitale
The Greatest Money-making Secret in History, Joe Vitale
The Secret Prayer, Joe Vitale
The Seven Lost Secrets, Joe Vitale

Deepak Chopra

Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul, Deepak Chopra
Life After Death: The Burden of Proof, Deepak Chopra
Why Is God Laughing? The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism, Deepak Chopra
Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream, Deepak Chopra and Sanjiv Chopra
What Are You Hungry For?, Deepak Chopra
God: A Story of Revelation, Deepak Chopra
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our Power to Change the World, Deepak Chopra and Gotham Chopra
Super Genes, Deepak Chopra and Rudolph Tanzi
Super Brain, Deepak Chopra and Rudolph Tanzi
War of the Worldviews, Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow
The Third Jesus, Deepak Chopra
The Soul of Leadership, Deepak Chopra
The Book of Secrets, Deepak Chopra
The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook, Deepak Chopra and David Simon
The Path to Love, Deepak Chopra
The Way of the Wizard, Deepak Chopra
The Return of Merlin, Deepak Chopra
Ageless Body Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra
Return of the Rishi: A Doctor’s Story of Spiritual Transformation and Ayurvedic Healing, Deepak Chopra
Perfect Health, Deepak Chopra
Quantum Healing, Deepak Chopra
Creating Health, Deepak Chopra

Wayne Dyer

Power of Intention, Wayne Dyer
The Secrets of the Power of Intention, Wayne Dyer
Getting in the Gap: Making Conscious Contact With God Through Meditation, Wayne Dyer
Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting, Wayne Dyer
Your Erroneous Zones, Wayne Dyer
Pulling Your Own Strings, Wayne Dyer
The Sky’s the Limit, Wayne Dyer
Gifts from Eykis, Wayne Dyer
What Do You Really Want For Your Children, Wayne Dyer
Happy Holidays, Wayne Dyer
Everyday Wisdom, Wayne Dyer
You’ll See It When You Believe It, Wayne Dyer
Real Magic, Wayne Dyer
Your Sacred Self, Wayne Dyer
A Promise is a Promise, Wayne Dyer and Marcelene Dyer
Manifest Your Destiny, Wayne Dyer
Wisdom of the Ages, Wayne Dyer
There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, Wayne Dyer
10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace, Wayne Dyer
Inspiration, Wayne Dyer
Being in Balance, Wayne Dyer
Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life, Wayne Dyer
Don’t Die with Your Music Still in You, Wayne Dyer and Serena Dyer
The Incredible ForceThe Incredible Force, Wayne Dyer
Living the Wisdom of the Tao, Wayne Dyer
My Greatest Teacher, Wayne Dyer and Lynn Lauber
Staying on the Path, Wayne Dyer
The Shift, Wayne Dyer
Excuses Begone, Wayne Dyer
Wishes Fulfilled, Wayne Dyer
I Can See Clearly Now, Wayne Dyer

Mike Dooley

Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living your Dreams, Mike Dooley
Manifesting Change: It Couldn’t Be Easier, Mike Dooley
The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell YOU, Mike Dooley
Totally Unique Thoughts, Mike Dooley
Lost in Space, Mike Dooley
Thoughts Become Things – LIVE (Audio), Mike Dooley
Notes from the Universe Book 1: New Perspectives From an Old Friend, Mike Dooley
Notes from the Universe Book 2: Life, Dreams & Happiness, Mike Dooley
Notes from the Universe Book 3: Dancing Life’s Dance, Mike Dooley
Leveraging the Universe (Audio), Mike Dooley
Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts Become Things, Mike Dooley
Thoughts Become Things (DVD), Mike Dooley
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Life… But Were Afraid to Ask, Mike Dooley
A Wrinkle in Time (DVD), Mike Dooley
Manifesting Change: The Law of Attraction (DVD), Mike Dooley
Leveraging the Universe: 7 Steps to Engaging Life’s Magic, Mike Dooley
Notes from the Universe Perpetual Calendar, Mike Dooley
Notes from the Universe: A 60-Card Deck, Mike Dooley
An Adventurer’s Guide to the Jungles of Time and Space, Mike Dooley
The Path Less Traveled (DVD), Mike Dooley
Dreams Come True, All They Need is You!, Mike Dooley
Your Magical Life, Mike Dooley

Other Authors

A Happy Pocket Full of Money: Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now, David Cameron Gikandi and Bob Doyle
Follow Your Passion, Find Your Power, Bob Doyle
The Power of Focus, Jack Canfield
Success Principles, Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield’s Key to Living the Law of Attraction: A Simple Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams, Jack Canfield and D.D. Watkins

Other Recommended Law of Attraction Books: General

Debianne De Rose

How I Met the Man of My Dreams: A Guide to MANifesting Yours, Debianne De Rose
The MANifesting Workbook, Debianne De Rose
Resistance is Feudal: Modernize your Mind to Manifest like a Mofo!, Debianne De Rose
Manifesting for Simpletons: A 30-Day Outrageously Simple Guide to Gettin’ the Goods, Debianne De Rose
What I Did On My Midlife Crisis Vacation, Debianne De Rose
YOU are a Spiritual Bad-Ass: Kicking Butt in the Earth Game, Debianne De Rose
Beyond Forgiveness: The Missing Link to Manifesting Your Dreams, Debianne De Rose
Adventures in Consciousness, Debianne De Rose

Pam Grout

E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality, Pam Grout
E-Cubed: Nine More Energy Experiments That Prove Manifesting Magic and Miracles Is Your Full-Time Gig, Pam Grout
Thank & Grow Rich: A 30-Day Experiment in Shameless Gratitude and Unabashed Joy, Pam Grout
Jumpstart Your Metabolism: How To Lose Weight By Changing The Way You Breathe, Pam Grout
Living Big: Embrace Your Passion and Leap into an Extraordinary Life, Pam Grout

Jeannette Maw

The Magic of Pray Rain Journaling, Jeannette Maw
Money Mojo Magic, Jeannette Maw
LOA for Love, Jeannette Maw
Manifesting Made Simple, Jeannette Maw
Slacker Manifesting, Jeannette Maw
Adventures In Manifesting, Jeannette Maw
The Art of Self-Love, Jeannette Maw
LOA for the Real World, Jeannette Maw
3 LOA Keys to Unlock Your Financial Fortune, Jeannette Maw
10 Life Skills (Never Taught But Totally Essential To Happy Living), Jeannette Maw
Core Values Uncovered – Live In The Sweet Spot By Revealing What Matters, Jeannette Maw

Kathie Anne Lewis

Forty Days of Love, Kathie Anne Lewis
Forty Days of Freedom, Kathie Anne Lewis
Forty Days to Prosperity, Kathie Anne Lewis

Greg Kuhn

Why Quantum Physicists Do Not Fail, Greg Kahn
Why Quantum Physicists Create More Abundance, Greg Kuhn
Why Quantum Physicists Play “Grow a Greater You”: Learn How to Live the Most Truly Fulfilling Life Humanly Possible, Greg Kuhn
Why Quantum Physicists Do Not Suffer, Greg Kuhn
The 30-Minute Soulmate: An Un-Exercise Program That Can Finally Solve Relationship Pain, Greg Kuhn

Frederick Zappone

How Your Subconscious Mind Keeps You BROKE!, Frederick Zappone
Open Up, Receive Your GOOD, Frederick Zappone
299 ‘LIFE INSIGHTS’ from The Wizard: Inspiring, Empowering, Thought Provoking, Frederick Zappone
More LIFE INSIGHTS From The Wizard, Frederick Zappone
Love Is All I Know, Frederick Zappone
The Tough LOVE Book About MONEY, Frederick Zappone

Other Authors

The Thought Exchange: Overcoming Our Resistance to Living A Sensational Life, Daniel Friedman

Deliberate Receiving: Finally, the Universe Makes Some Freakin’ Sense!, Melody Fletcher
Hustle Believe Receive: An 8-Step Plan to Changing Your Life and Living Your Dream, Sarah Centrella
The Law of Distraction & Art of Intending, Tamara Lee Dorris
The Moses Code: The Most Powerful Manifestation Tool in the History of the World, James Twyman
Your Heart’s Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want, Sonia Choquette
The Greatest Secret of All: Moving Beyond Abundance to A Life of True Fulfillment, Mark Allen
Law of Attraction, Plain, and Simple: Create the Extraordinary Life That You Deserve, Sonia Ricotti
Napoleon Hill’s Keys to Positive Thinking, Michael Ritt
The Soulmate Secret, Arielle Ford
Your Quantum Breakthrough Code: The Simple Technique That Brings Everlasting Joy and Success, Sandra Anne Taylor
Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings, Lynn Grabhorn
The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World, Lynne McTaggart
The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, Lynne McTaggart
Beyond the Secret: Spiritual Power and the Law of Attraction, Lisa Love
The Science Behind the Secret, Travis S. Taylor
The Law of Happiness, Henry Cloud
Your Road Map to Lifelong Happiness: A Guide to the Life You Want, Ken Keyes
How to Solve the Paradox of the Universal Laws of Attraction: 8 Shortcuts to Using Coincidence and Sychronicity to Untangle the Mystery, Cary David Richards
Leap of Perception: The Transforming Power of Your Attention, Penney Peirce
Manifesting: The Secret Behind the Law of Attraction, Alexander Janze
Creating Money: Attracting Abundance, Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration, Penney Peirce
Feel It Real! A Guided Approach to Bringing the Law of Attraction Into your Life, Denise Coates
The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment, Maria Nemeth Ph.D.
Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy, Robert Allen Bartlett and Dennis William Hauck
Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, Revised and Expanded, Rob Brezsny
The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever, Michael Neill
Do You QuantumThink?: New Thinking That Will Rock Your World, Dianne Collins
The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More, Sarah Ban Breathnach
Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation, Sanaya Roman
The Map To Our Responsive Universe, Where Dreams Really Do Come True!, Boni Lonnsburry
The Path to Wealth, May McCarthy
The History of New Thought: From Mind Cure to Positive Thinking and Prosperity Gospel, John S. Haller, Jr.
Beyond the Secret: The Truth Behind Today’s Pop Mysticisms, Robert Price
The Key: Identity, Kenneth G. Mills
Change Your Standpoint, Change Your World, Kenneth G. Mills
Powerful Attitudes, Michael Murphy
A New Philosophy of Life, J. Herman Randall
Creating Your Reality, Steven Redhead
The Science of Faith, Masaharu Taniguchi
Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential, Michael Beckwith
Mind and Manifestation, Dr. Kenneth D Gordon
Spiritual Healing: A Simple Guide for the Healing of Body, Mind, and Spirit, Stuart Grayson Joseph Perry Green
Power of Will: A Practical Companion Book for the Unfoldment of the Powers of Mind, Frank Channing Haddock
The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have, Mark Nepo
New Thought: A 21st Century Awakening, Charles Brodie Patterson
Soul Currency: Investing Your Inner Wealth for Fulfillment and Abundance, Ernest D. Chu

Other Recommended Law of Attraction Books: Well-Known Classics

Ernest Holmes

New Thought Terms and Their Meanings, Ernest Holmes
Philosophy of Jesus, Ernest Holmes
Lessons in Spiritual Mind Healing, Ernest Holmes
Ebell Lectures on Spiritual Science, Ernest Holmes
Creative Mind, Ernest Holmes
Creative Mind and Success, Ernest Holmes
The Science of Mind: A Philosophy, A Faith, A Way of Life, Ernest Holmes and Jean Houston
This Thing Called You, Ernest Holmes
Living the Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes
The Hidden Power of the Bible, Ernest Holmes
365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes, Ernest Holmes
How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library, Ernest Holmes
Prayer: How to Pray Effectively, Ernest Holmes
Love and Law, Ernest Holmes

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Heart of the New Thought, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
An Ambitious Man, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
New Thought Common Sense, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
New Thought Pastels, Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Wallace Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace Wattles
The Science of Being Great, Wallace Wattles
The Science of Being Well, Wallace Wattles
Health through New Thought and Fasting, Wallace Wattles
Jesus: The Man and His Work, Wallace Wattles
How to Get What You Want, Wallace Wattles

Warren Felt Evans

The Mental-Cure, Warren Felt Evans
Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body, Warren Felt Evans
The Divine Law of Cure, Warren Felt Evans
The Spiritual Writings of Warren Felt Evans, Warren Felt Evans
Mental Medicine, Warren Felt Evans
Soul and Body, Warren Felt Evans
The Primitive Mind Cure, Warren Felt Evans
Esoteric Christianity and Mental Therapeutics, Warren Felt Evans

Elizabeth Towne

Making of the Man Who Can/ How to Promote Yourself, Elizabeth Towne
New Science of Living and Healing/ Health Through New Thought and Fasting, Elizabeth Towne
Scientific Marriage, Elizabeth Towne
What Is Truth?, Elizabeth Towne

Nona Lovell Brooks

Divine Science and the Truth, Nona Lovell Brooks
Short Lessons in Divine Science, Nona Lovell Brooks
Mysteries, Nona Lovell Brooks
The Prayer that Never Fails, Nona Lovell Brooks
What is Real and What Illusion?, Nona Lovell Brooks
The Training of Children: Based upon the Practical Principles of Life Studies of Health, Nona Lovell Brooks
The Kingdom of Law, Nona Lovell Brooks

Florence Scovel Shinn

The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn, Florence Scovel Shinn
Your Word is Your Wand, Florence Scovel Shinn
The Power of the Spoken Word, Florence Scovel Shinn
The Secret Door to Success, Florence Scovel Shinn
The Game of Life and How to Play It, Florence Scovel Shinn

Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success, Napoleon Hill
The Law of Success, Napoleon Hill
The Magic Ladder To Success, Napoleon Hill
The Master-Key to Riches, Napoleon Hill
How to Raise Your Own Salary, Napoleon Hill
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
Grow Rich!: With Peace of Mind, Napoleon Hill
You Can Work Your Own Miracles, Napoleon Hill

Emma Curtis Hopkins

High Mysticism: Studies in the Wisdom of the Sages of the Ages, Emma Curtis Hopkins
A Golden Promise, Emma Curtis Hopkins
According to Thy Faith, Emma Curtis Hopkins
All is Divine Order, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Awake Thou That Sleepest, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Bible Instruction Series, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Bible Interpretations, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Bible Lessons, Emma Curtis Hopkins
But One Substance, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Christ at Samaria, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Christian Mysticism and the Victorious Life: First Study, The Sacred Edict and Estoric Discipline, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Class Lessons, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Continue the Work, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Drops of Gold, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Emma Curtis Hopkins, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Esoteric Philosophy Deeper Teachings in Spiritual Science, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Esoteric Philosophy in Spiritual Science, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Lessons in Christian Science Series, Emma Curtis Hopkins
For Unto Us a Child Is Born, Emma Curtis Hopkins
God and Man Are One, Emma Curtis Hopkins
How to Attain Your Good, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Jesus and Judas, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Judgment Series in Spiritual Science, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Justice of Jehovah, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Magic of His Name, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Résumé: Practice Book for the Twelve Chapters in High Mysticism, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Self Treatment, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Spiritual Law in the Natural World, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Teachings of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Emma Curtis Hopkins
The Bread of Life, Emma Curtis Hopkins
The Chief Thought, Emma Curtis Hokins
The Gospel Series in Spiritual Science, Emma Curtis Hopkins
The Key to Power, Emma Curtis Hopkins
The Ministry of the Holy Mother, Emma Curtis Hopkins
The Radiant I Am, Emma Curtis Hopkins
The Real Kingdom, Emma Curtis Hopkins
The Resurrection of Christ, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Two Great Lessons, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Who Are Drunkards, Emma Curtis Hopkins
Your Idea of God, Emma Curtis Hopkins

James Allen

Above Life’s Turmoil, James Allen
Byways to Blessedness, James Allen
Poems of Peace, James Allen
The Shining Gateway, James Allen
Out From the Heart, James Allen
From Poverty to Power, James Allen
The Path to Prosperity, James Allen
The Life Triumphant, James Allen
Light on Life’s Difficulties, James Allen
Man: King of Mind, Body and Circumstance, James Allen
The Master of Destiny, James Allen
Happiness and Success, James Allen
Foundation Stones, James Allen
From Passion to Peace, James Allen
Eight Pillars of Prosperity, James Allen
Entering the Kingdom, James Allen
Christ and Conduct, James Allen
Men and Systems, James Allen
All These Things Added, James Allen
The Way of Peace, James Allen
Morning and Evening Thoughts, James Allen
Meditations: A Year Book, James Allen
The Divine Companion, James Allen

Charles Fillmore

The Twelve Powers of Man, Charles Fillmore
The Revealing Word, Charles Fillmore
Prosperity, Charles Fillmore
Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore
Atom-Smashing Power of Mind, Charles Fillmore
Metaphysical Bible Dictionary, Charles Fillmore
Jesus Christ Heals, Charles Fillmore
Dynamics for Living, Charles Fillmore
Christian Healing, Charles Fillmore
Mysteries of Genesis, Charles Fillmore
Mysteries of John, Charles Fillmore
Keep a True Lent, Charles Fillmore

Dale Carnegie

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie’s Scrapbook: a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages, Dale Carnegie

Emmet Fox

Be Still, Emmet Fox
The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life, Emmet Fox
The Ten Commandments, Emmet Fox
Power Through Constructive Thinking, Emmet Fox
Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings, Emmet Fox
Alter Your Life, Emmet Fox
Make Your Life Worthwhile, Emmet Fox
Diagrams for Living: The Bible Unveiled, Emmet Fox
The Seven Day Mental Diet: How to Change Your Life in a Week, Emmet Fox
Find and Use Your Inner Power, Emmet Fox
Stake Your Claim: Exploring the Gold Mine Within, Emmet Fox
The Mental Equivalent: The Secret of Demonstration, Emmet Fox

Norman Vincent Peale

The Positive Power of Jesus Christ, Norman Vincent Peale
Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results,
Norman Vincent Peale
Guide to Confident Living,
Norman Vincent Peale
Six Attitudes for Winners,
Norman Vincent Peale
Positive Thinking Every Day : An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year,
Norman Vincent Peale
Positive Imaging,
Norman Vincent Peale
You Can If You Think You Can,
Norman Vincent Peale
Thought Conditioners,
Norman Vincent Peale
In God We Trust,
Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale’s Treasury of Courage and Confidence,
Norman Vincent Peale
My Favorite Hymns and the Stories Behind Them,
Norman Vincent Peale
The Power of Positive Thinking for Young People,
Norman Vincent Peale
The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking,
Norman Vincent Peale
Stay Alive All Your Life,
Norman Vincent Peale
You Can Have God’s Help with Daily Problems,
Norman Vincent Peale
Faith Is the Answer: A Psychiatrist and a Pastor Discuss Your Problems,
Smiley Blanton and Norman Vincent Peale
Power of the Plus Factor,
Norman Vincent Peale

Neville Goddard

Feeling Is The Secret, Neville Goddard
The Power of Awareness, Neville Goddard
Your Faith is Your Fortune, Neville Goddard
The Neville Reader, Neville Goddard
The Law & the Promise, Neville Goddard
At Your Command, Neville Goddard
Prayer: The Art of Believing, Neville Goddard
Resurrection, Neville Goddard
Awakened Imagination/The Search, Neville Goddard
Seedtime & Harvest, Neville Goddard
Out of This World: Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally, Neville Goddard

Other Recommended Law of Attraction Books: Obscure Classics

Dolores Cannon

The Search for Hidden Sacred Knowledge, Dolores Cannon
The Convoluted Universe,
Dolores Cannon
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth,
Dolores Cannon

Jesus and the Essenes, Dolores Cannon
The Custodians: Beyond Abduction, Dolores Cannon
Conversations With Nostradamus: His Prophecies Explained, Dolores Cannon
Five Lives Remembered, Dolores Cannon
Conversations with Nostradamus: His Prophecies Explained Series, Dolores Cannon
A Soul Remembers Hiroshima, Dolores Cannon
Between Death and Life, formerly, Conversations With a Spirit, Dolores Cannon
They Walked with Jesus, Dolores Cannon
Legacy From the Stars, Dolores Cannon
Sri Sathya Sai Baba & the Golden Age: The Fourth Dimension That Will Change the World, Dolores Cannon
Keepers of the Garden: An Extraterrestrial Document, Dolores Cannon

Fenwicke Holmes

The Science of Faith, Fenwicke Holmes
Ernest Holmes: His Life and Times, Fenwicke Holmes
Faith That Heals, Fenwicke Holmes
Healing at a Distance, Fenwicke Holmes and Ernest Holmes
The Law of Mind in Action: Daily Lessons and Treatments in Mental and Spiritual Science, Fenwicke Holmes
How to Develop Faith That Heals, Fenwicke Holmes
The Unfailing Formula, Fenwicke Holmes
Being and Becoming: A Book of Lessons in the Science of Mind Showing How to Find the Personal Spirit, Fenwicke Holmes
Practical Healing, Fenwicke Holmes
Text Book in the Science of Mind: Psychology and Metaphysics Applied to Everyday Living, Fenwicke Holmes
Religion and Mental Science: Lyrics of Life and Love, Fenwicke Holmes
Joan’s Voices, Fenwicke Holmes
How to Solve Your Personal Problem: The God-law and the Key to Power, Fenwicke Holmes
Text Book of Practical Healing, Fenwicke Holmes
The “Just How Course” In Healing the Mental Science Way, Fenwicke Holmes
Healing Treatments in Verse, Fenwicke Holmes
Tiny Textbook of Meditation and the Lord’s Prayer, Fenwicke Holmes
Calm Yourself: A Key to Serenity, Fenwicke Holmes
Tiny Textbook of Mental Healing, Fenwicke Holmes
The Science of Faith: How to Make Yourself Believe, Fenwicke Holmes
Psycho-Dietetics: How to Eat, Drink, and Think for Health, Including the Holmes Food Chemistry and Vitamins Chart, Fenwicke Holmes

Robert Collier

The Life Magnet, Robert Collier
The God in You, Robert Collier
The Magic Word, Robert Collier
The Secret Power, Robert Collier
Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential, Robert Collier
Be Rich! The Science of Getting What You Want, Robert Collier
The Book of Life (Volumes 1-7), Robert Collier

Kate Atkinson Boehme

The Attainment of Happiness, Kate Atkinson Boehme
The Radiant Path to Achievement, Kate Atkinson Boehme
Mental Healing Made Plain, Kate Atkinson Boehme
New Thought Healing Made Plain, Kate Boehme

Annie Rix Militz

Atonement Understood, Annie Rix Militz
Both Riches and Honor/Prosperity, Annie Rix Militz
Concentration, Annie Rix Militz
Sermon on the Mount, Annie Rix Militz
Primary Lessons in Christian Living and Healing, Annie Rix Militz

Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Violet Flame To Heal Body, Mind And Soul, Elizabeth Clare Prophet
In My Own Words, Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Climb the Highest Mountain: The Everlasting Gospel, Elizabeth Clare Prophet and Mark Prophet
The Science of the Spoken Word, Elizabeth Clare Prophet and Mark Prophet

Catherine Ponder

Catherine Ponder Prosperity Secrets of the Ages, Catherine Ponder
The Dynamic Laws of Healing, Catherine Ponder
The Healing Secrets of the Ages, Catherine Ponder
Pray and Grow Rich, Catherine Ponder
Open Your Mind To Prosperity, Catherine Ponder
The Millionaires of Genesis, Catherine Ponder
The Millionaire Moses, Catherine Ponder
The Millionaire Joshua, Catherine Ponder
The Millionaire from Nazareth, Catherine Ponder
Open Your Mind To Receive, Catherine Ponder
Secret of Unlimited Prosperity, Catherine Ponder
The Prospering Power of Prayer, Catherine Ponder
Dare to Prosper!, Catherine Ponder
The Dynamic Laws of Prayer, Catherine Ponder
A Prosperity Love Story: Rags to Enrichment, Catherine Ponder
Giving Thanks: The Art of Tithing, Catherine Ponder
The Prospering Power of Love, Catherine Ponder

Prentice Mulford

Thoughts Are Things, Prentice Mulford
Your Forces and How to Use Them, Prentice Mulford
The Gift of Understanding, Prentice Mulford
Thought Forces, Prentice Mulford
Prentice Mulford’s Story: Life By Land and Sea, Prentice Mulford
Gift of the Spirit, Prentice Mulford

Henry Thomas Hamblin

The Power of Thought, Henry Thomas Hamblin
Dynamic Thought: Harmony, Health, Success, Achievement, Henry Thomas Hamblin
Within You is the Power, Henry Thomas Hamblin
Science of Thought, Henry Thomas Hamblin
The Message of a Flower, Henry Thomas Hamblin
The Open Door, Henry Thomas Hamblin
Divine Adjustment, Henry Thomas Hamblin
My Search For Truth, Henry Thomas Hamblin
The Way of the Practical Mystic, Henry Thomas Hamblin
The Story of my Life, Henry Thomas Hamblin
My Search for Truth, Henry Thomas Hamblin
Life Without Strain, Henry Thomas Hamblin
The Life of the Spirit, Henry Thomas Hamblin

H. Emilie Cady

Lessons in Truth, H. Emilie Cady
The Complete Works of H. Emilie Cady, H. Emilie Cady
Finding The Christ in Ourselves, H. Emilie Cady
How I Used the Truth,
H. Emilie Cady
God: A Present Help,
H. Emilie Cady

Horatio Dresser

Education and the Philosophical Ideal, Horatio Dresser
Manuscripts, Horatio Dresser
The Power of Silence, Horatio Dresser
Spiritual Health and Healing, Horatio Dresser
The Greatest Truth, Horatio Dresser
Human Efficiency, Horatio Willis Dresser
A History of the New Thought Movement, Horatio Dresser

Elizabeth Towne

Joy Philosophy, Elizabeth Towne
Experiences in Self-Healing, Elizabeth Towne
Just How to Wake the Solar Plexus, Elizabeth Towne

Fannie James

Dawning Truth, Fannie James
Divine Science, Fannie James
Truth and Health, Fannie James

Ralph Waldo Trine

What All the World’s A-Seeking, Ralph Waldo Trine
In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty, Ralph Waldo Trine
Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit, Ralph Waldo Trine
The Greatest Thing Ever Known, Ralph Waldo Trine
Character-Building Thought Power, Ralph Waldo Trine
This Mystical Life of Ours, Ralph Waldo Trine
Thoughts I Met on the Highway, Ralph Waldo Trine

Henry Drummond

Pax Vobiscum, Henry Drummond
Programme of Christianity, Henry Drummond
Stones Rolled Away, Henry Drummond
Life For All, Henry Drummond
The Greatest Thing Ever Known, Henry Drummond
The Greatest Thing in the World, Henry Drummond
Eternal Life, Henry Drummond
City Without a Church, Henry Drummond
Changed Life, Henry Drummond
A Life for a Life, Henry Drummond

William Walker Atkinson

Thought Force in Business and Everyday Life: Succeed Through the Power of Thought, William Walker Atkinson
Thought Vibration, or The Law of Attraction in the Thought World, William Walker Atkinson
The Mastery of Being, William Walker Atkinson
Your Mind and How to Use It, William Walker Atkinson
The 12-Volume Personal Power Series, William Walker Atkinson
Practical Mental Influence, William Walker Atkinson
Nuggets of New Thought, William Walker Atkinson
New Thought Bhagavad Gita, William Walker Atkinson

Thomas Troward

The Creative Process in the Individual, Thomas Troward
The Edinburgh & Dore Lectures on Mental Science, Thomas Troward
Three Initiates, Thomas Troward
The Kybalion, Thomas Troward
The Law and the Word, Thomas Troward
The Hidden Power, Thomas Troward
Comments on the Psalms, Thomas Troward

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them, Christian Larson
What is Truth?, Christian Larson
Concentration, Christian Larson
The Ideal Made Real/Metaphysics for Beginners, Christian Larson
The Mind Cure, Christian Larson

Other Authors

The New Psycho-Cybernetics: A Mind Technology for Living Your Life Without Limits, Maxwell Maltz
Be!, James Dillet Freeman
The Story of Unity, James Dillet Freeman
Conquest of Fear, Morris Lichtenstein
Conquest of Poverty, Morris Lichtenstein
Jewish Science and Health, Morris Lichtenstein
The Call of the Century,
Henry Brown
Dollars Want Me!,
Henry Brown
Concentration: The Road to Success,
Henry Brown
New Thought Simplified,
Henry Wood
Ideal Suggestion Through Mental Photography, Henry Wood
How to Control Fate,
Henry Brown
Divine Science Principles & Practice,
Malinda Cramer
Harmony,
Malinda Cramer
Lessons in the Science of Infinite Spirit,
Malinda Cramer
Happiness is the Secret of Secrets,
U.S. Andersen
Three Magic Words,
U.S. Andersen
Coming into Freedom: Emilie Cady’s Lessons in Truth for the 21st Century
, Ruth L. Miller
Take the Leap,
Frederick Bailes
Hidden Power for Human Problems,
Frederick Bailes
Your Mind Can Heal You,
Frederick Bailes 
The Angels Within Us,
John Randolph Price
The Abundance Book,
John Randolph Price
The Way to Perfect Healing,
William Towne
Stepping Stones to Peace,
Jane Grey Syme
Studies In Divine Science,
C. L. “Daisy” Baum
The Creative Visualization Workbook,
Shakti Gawain
Mental Chemistry,
Charles Haannel
The Master Key System,
Charles Haanel
The Quimby Manuscripts,
Phineas Quimby
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind,
Joseph Murphy
Attaining Your Desires,
Genevieve Behrend
How to Live Life and Love it!,
Genevieve Behrend
Attaining Your Heart’s Desire, Genevieve Behrend
Your Invisible Power, Genevieve Behrend
Working With God,
Gardner Hunting
Practical Healing for Mind & Body,
Jane Yarnall
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7,
Mildred Mann
Become What You Believe,
Mildred Mann
Teach Us To Pray,
Cora Fillmore
How to Let God Help You,
Myrtle Fillmore
Myrtle Fillmore’s Healing Letters,
Myrtle Fillmore
Privilege of Choice,
Norma Sackheim
Prosperity Through Thought Force,
Bruce Maclelland
Into The Light,
Bruce Maclelland
The Unknown Stranger,
Maurice Maeterlinck
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature,
William James
Acres of Diamonds,
Russell Conwell
The Art of Money Getting/Golden Rules for Making Money,
P.T. Barnum
Common Sense and How to Exercise It,
Yoritomo-Tashi
Cosmic Consciousness,
Richard Maurice Buck
The Divine Art of Living,
Kathleen Besly
Divine Science Bible Text Book,
A.B. Faye
Esoteric Osteopathy,
Herbert Hoffman
The Evolution of Psychic Healing,
Harmon McQuilkin
First Lessons in New Thought,
J.W. Winkley
God Never Fails,
Mary Kupferle
Good Cheer,
Lillian de Waters
The Gospel of Emerson,
Newton Dillaway
Gospel of Ramakrishna
The Heart of Being or Truth and Destiny,
Uriel Buchana
Home Study Course in Mental Science,
Helen Wilman
How I Eliminated Fear,
George Wharton James
How To Make Money,
B.F. Austin
The Impersonal Life,
Joseph Benner
Natural Theology,
John Bascom
Self-Suggestion and the New Huna Theory of Mesmerism and Hypnosis,
Max Freedom Long
Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams,
Kevin L. Michel
Your Soul’s Plan, 
Robert Schwartz
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth,
T. Harv Eker
Choosing Your Destiny,
Alexzandra de la Iglesia
The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment,
Thaddeus Golas
Message of New Thought,
Abel Allen
The Law of Psychic Phenomena,
Thomson Hudson
The Metaphysics of Balzac
, Ursula Gestefld
The Breath of Life: A Series of Self-Treatments, Ursula Gestefld
Another View of Metaphysical Healing, Ursula Gestefld
Pentateuch, Ursula Gestefld
Treat Yourself to Life, Raymond Charles Barker
Money is God in Action, Raymond Charles Barker
The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever, Raymond Charles Barker
Peace Begins At Home, Clara Beranger
Wake Up and Live, Dorothea Brande
The Answer is Simple, Sonia Choquette
Divine Science & Healing, Malinda Cramer
The Thought Exchange, David Friedman
It Is Wonderful, Walter C. Lanyon
Ask, Walter C. Lanyon
Peace, Power, and Plenty, Orison Swett Marden
Every Man A King, or, Might in Mind-Mastery, Orison Swett Marden
Love Your Neighbor, Art Maxin
The Infinite Way, Joel S. Goldsmith
God: The Substance of All Form, Joel Goldsmith

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A moment of clarity

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At a playdate the other week, one of my sons hit another kid. The playdate wasn’t with just one other family; a whole big group of us was there.

Sometimes, when something like this happens, I have a moment of, “Okay. How do I handle this situation calmly but effectively, in a way that makes me look like a good mom?” I didn’t know the others well, so this response may have been even more likely–normally.

That day, though, wasn’t a normal day. That day I was “in the zone.”

In You’re Getting Closer, I discuss this phenomenon–this state of continuous meditation, during which everything you do feels inspired. That morning, I decided this would be one of those days; I’d listen for guidance on what to do–even the little stuff.

And so, when I saw what happened, I knew without hesitation what to do. I talked to my son, and gave him the choice to either apologize or to leave the playdate.

Then, we left the playdate.

It’s so, so nice to have that feeling of clarity, of knowing exactly what to do and how. I don’t have it nearly often enough.

This is what acceptance looks like

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A while back, I resolved to learn how to accept what is, give up compulsiveness, in order to become more, you know, Buddhist monk-like. The only part of this resolution that stuck, however, was cleaning my house less often.

I don’t consider this a success.

Things I would be, think, and do differently if not for the opinions of others or other self-imposed limitations: A complete-as-I-can-get-it-right-now list

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  • I wouldn’t wash my clothes every time I wore them.
  • I would collect beautiful garbage everywhere I went and use it to make amazing art pieces.
  • I would never negate a compliment.
  • I would never argue.
  • I would never defend myself.
  • I would someday “walk the earth,” stopping only to sleep in hotels and eat at restaurants.
  • I would sip coffee all day.
  • I would eat stir-fry every day.
  • I would never wear a bra. Ever.
  • I would never say “yes” to things I didn’t really want to do. (That includes sharing my food.)
  • I would never be in a hurry.
  • I would spend more time digging in the dirt.

Going with the flow is a pain.

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Right now, I’m sitting in a comfy spot on our playroom floor, drinking coffee and watching the baby eat baked apple slices. It’s morning and all the noises are soft ones: distant bird calls, faint refrigerator whirring, the sound of my hand sliding across this paper. Soon, my older son—the not-so-quiet one—will wake up. And all I can think is, Am I ready?

What can I do with this precious hour before the real work begins? What feels most useful, most inspired? Should I meditate a while longer? Read a book? Get some writing done? How can I best “go with the flow”?

In You’re Getting Closer, I talk about my daily effort to live in The Zone—to do only what feels most inspired. Times like these, though, I can’t seem to figure it out, not even when it’s quiet and calm. How, then, will I be able to do so the rest of the day, when distractions (like my older child) are everywhere?

Going with the flow sounds easy enough. But it sure takes a long time to learn.

Okay, Matt Kahn is definitely my new guru.

Love what is. That’s Matt Kahn’s simple message, and even though he believes in angels, channelling, reincarnation, etc. etc., he doesn’t really focus on it too much.

My mantra this week based on this amazing YouTube video of his:

(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eIx5iFNjj-0)

“Fiercely, aggressively, enthusiastically love. Ridiculously, embarrassingly love.”

All week, when my mind has gotten a bit crazy, I’ve been thinking about a person I love or thinking up a way to show love right then–to focus on someone other than myself.

It’s helping.

New book announcement: The Power of Acceptance

Pleased to announce that my latest book, The Power of Acceptance: One Year of Mindfulness and Meditation, is now available at Amazon.com. This is a follow-up to You’re Getting Closer: One Year of Finding God and a Few Good Friends.

From the back cover:

For a day, a week, even a month at a time, she had the feeling continuously. She had it while she read, while she drove, while she ate, and while she played with her child. Which is why each time the feeling left, it was a great disappointment.

It was the feeling of connection with the Divine, and Mollie Player wanted to hold on to it forever. But how?

What was the key to continuous meditation?

Following You’re Getting Closer: One Year of Finding God and a Few Good Friends, The Power of Acceptance is her answer to that question. In this year-long journal she shares her attempt to do a sitting meditation each day, then remain in the state of meditation as much as possible after that.
Featuring interviews on meditation from long-time practitioners, The Power of Acceptance isn’t a meditation prescription, but rather a personal story of one woman’s spiritual struggles . . . and breakthroughs.

Thanks to my support system for helping me fill up the corners left in my day with writing time. Much love.

The very last time. Maybe.

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This is the librarian who now hates us.

When a friend of mine mentioned her love of the library recently, a idyllic image came to mind. There was a mother, there were two happy children, and there were three large piles of loved books.

I really should take my kids, too, I thought. It’s time I stopped slacking off. So, I packed us up and off we went.

There was screaming. There was peeing. And there was a dramatic parking lot escape. And the next day, all I had to show for it was a pile of books in the trunk of my car that would soon have to be returned . . . to the library.

Last time I compare myself to anyone ever again. Last, I tell you. Maybe.

Three Things I May or May Not Have Learned Since Last Sunday

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1. A difficult three-year-old is almost twice the work of an easy baby. Added bonus: they don’t nap.

2. A fireman costume layered over a bathing suit layered over regular clothes and topped with a motorcycle helmet is appropriate attire for every occasion.

3. Television isn’t nearly as bad for kids as I used to think.

Science.

Sometimes, meditation is just hard work.

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Recently, I posted a summary of a great book called 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story by news anchor Dan Harris. In it, he says that just maintaining the meditation discipline is enough; it’s not necessary to actually feel better afterwards. Sitting down, coming back, trying again is “the whole game.”

Sometimes, meditation is just hard work.

I like this idea, and yet … I kinda hate it. Esther Hicks always harps on the importance of finding a good-feeling place. Feeling good, grateful, etc. helps us manifest what we desire, after all. If there’s a day in which meditation isn’t doing this for me, shouldn’t I spend my free time on something that does? Like going for a walk in the woods, or playing volleyball, and doing it in a meditative frame of mind?

What do you guys think?