1. The power of your SUBCONSCIOUS mind
This book has really helped me on my journey. The mind can either be the most powerful tool or the most self destructive. Here are a few quotes as to what to expect.
“The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.”
― Joseph Murphy
"You can build radiant health, success, and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind."
― Joseph Murphy
"The idea you have for a book, new invention, or play is real in your mind. That is why you can believe you have it now. Believe in the reality of your idea, plan, or invention, and as you do it will become manifest."
― Joseph Murphy
“The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.”
― Joseph Murphy
"You can build radiant health, success, and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind."
― Joseph Murphy
"The idea you have for a book, new invention, or play is real in your mind. That is why you can believe you have it now. Believe in the reality of your idea, plan, or invention, and as you do it will become manifest."
― Joseph Murphy
2.. the power of now
Rather a difficult and challenging read, Eckhart Tolle brings us back to the present making us realize there is no moment but this moment right now. Again- a few quotes as to what to expect.
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and
not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms
of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
"What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and
not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms
of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
"What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
3. A new earth
I have not yet read this book by Eckhart Tolle but i have heard very good things.
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
4. The four agreements
This book was prescribed by my psychologist and i have not started reading it but apparently its amazing, and its a easy read, and a small novel.
“The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best. ”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
"I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best. ”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
"I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
5. The road less traveled
I have just started reading this novel. awesome!
“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”
― M. Scott Peck
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”
― M. Scott Peck
“The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. ”
― M. Scott Peck
“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”
― M. Scott Peck
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”
― M. Scott Peck
“The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. ”
― M. Scott Peck
6. women who love too much
I have read this book twice. Great for women who love too much, co-dependants, addicts, women or partners who have a partner that has suffered from addiction etc.
“Loving too much does not mean loving too many men, or falling in love too often, or having too great a depth of genuine love for another. It means, in truth, obsessing about a man and calling that obsession love, allowing it to control your emotions and much of your behavior, realizing that it negatively influences your health and well-being, and yet finding yourself unable to let go. It means measuring the degree of your love by the depth of your torment.”
Characteristics of women who love too much:
1. Come from a dysfunctional home where emotional needs were not met.
2. Try to fill unmet needs by becoming a caregiver, especially to men who appear to be needy.
3. Respond deeply to the familiar type of emotionally unavailable man who you feel you can try to change through your love
4. Terrified of abandonment, will do anything to keep a relationship from dissolving.
5. Willing to do anything to “help” the man you are involved with.
6. Accustomed to lack of love in personal relationships, but waits, hopes, and tries harder to please.
7. Takes more than 50 % of the responsibility, guilt and blame in any relationship.
8. Critically low self-esteem, does not believe she deserves to be happy, must earn the right to enjoy life.
9. Has a desperate need to control men and relationships
10. Is more in touch with the dream of how it could be than with the reality of the situation.
11. Is addicted to men and to emotional pain.
12. Predisposed emotionally and biochemically to becoming addicted to drugs, alchohol, or foods (sugar).
13. Drawn to people with problems that need fixing, avoid focusing on responsibility to self.
14. Has a tendency toward episodes of depression which she tries to forestall through the excitement provided by an unstable relationship.
15. Not attracted to men who are kind, stable, reliable and interested in you. Nice men are boring.
http://pamcomer.blogspot.com/2010/06/women-who-love-too-much-by-robin.html
“Loving too much does not mean loving too many men, or falling in love too often, or having too great a depth of genuine love for another. It means, in truth, obsessing about a man and calling that obsession love, allowing it to control your emotions and much of your behavior, realizing that it negatively influences your health and well-being, and yet finding yourself unable to let go. It means measuring the degree of your love by the depth of your torment.”
Characteristics of women who love too much:
1. Come from a dysfunctional home where emotional needs were not met.
2. Try to fill unmet needs by becoming a caregiver, especially to men who appear to be needy.
3. Respond deeply to the familiar type of emotionally unavailable man who you feel you can try to change through your love
4. Terrified of abandonment, will do anything to keep a relationship from dissolving.
5. Willing to do anything to “help” the man you are involved with.
6. Accustomed to lack of love in personal relationships, but waits, hopes, and tries harder to please.
7. Takes more than 50 % of the responsibility, guilt and blame in any relationship.
8. Critically low self-esteem, does not believe she deserves to be happy, must earn the right to enjoy life.
9. Has a desperate need to control men and relationships
10. Is more in touch with the dream of how it could be than with the reality of the situation.
11. Is addicted to men and to emotional pain.
12. Predisposed emotionally and biochemically to becoming addicted to drugs, alchohol, or foods (sugar).
13. Drawn to people with problems that need fixing, avoid focusing on responsibility to self.
14. Has a tendency toward episodes of depression which she tries to forestall through the excitement provided by an unstable relationship.
15. Not attracted to men who are kind, stable, reliable and interested in you. Nice men are boring.
http://pamcomer.blogspot.com/2010/06/women-who-love-too-much-by-robin.html
7. The conFident woman -Joyce meyer
Busy reding this book- almost done.... Very well written, easy to rude and very inspirational. It's not about self confidence but confidence in god that matters. . "If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord."
“Our thoughts and words about ourselves are tremendously important. In order to overcome the negative thinking and speaking that have been such a natural part of our lifestyle for so long, we must make a conscious effort to meditate on and speak positive things about ourselves. "
"If you will do what you can do, God will do what you cannot do. Doors will open, a way will be made, and creative ideas will come. You will also inspire others to do what they can do, and even though each person can only do a little, together we can make a big difference."
“Insecurity, self-doubt, and fear can totally prevent us from ever reaching our full potential….where there is potential, all the parts necessary for success are there, but they are not yet put into action. Potential cannot manifest without form. What stands in the space between potential and manifestation? I believe it is three things: time, determination, and hard work!”
“We need to have a sense of triumph. Sometimes our confidence is shaken when trials come, especially if they are lengthy. We should have so much confidence in God’s love for us that no matter what comes against us, we know deep inside that we are more than conquerors. Be confident that during the trial, you will learn something that will help you in the future"
“Your pain can become someone else’s gain. Your mess can become your ministry if you will have a positive attitude and decide to let everything you go through prepare you for what is ahead.”
“Our thoughts and words about ourselves are tremendously important. In order to overcome the negative thinking and speaking that have been such a natural part of our lifestyle for so long, we must make a conscious effort to meditate on and speak positive things about ourselves. "
"If you will do what you can do, God will do what you cannot do. Doors will open, a way will be made, and creative ideas will come. You will also inspire others to do what they can do, and even though each person can only do a little, together we can make a big difference."
“Insecurity, self-doubt, and fear can totally prevent us from ever reaching our full potential….where there is potential, all the parts necessary for success are there, but they are not yet put into action. Potential cannot manifest without form. What stands in the space between potential and manifestation? I believe it is three things: time, determination, and hard work!”
“We need to have a sense of triumph. Sometimes our confidence is shaken when trials come, especially if they are lengthy. We should have so much confidence in God’s love for us that no matter what comes against us, we know deep inside that we are more than conquerors. Be confident that during the trial, you will learn something that will help you in the future"
“Your pain can become someone else’s gain. Your mess can become your ministry if you will have a positive attitude and decide to let everything you go through prepare you for what is ahead.”
8. why men love bitches
I have read this book 5 times now and i always pick up on something new. This book teaches how to remain independent in a relationship and not to loose yourself in that same relationship. It also talks about being the "dream girl" rather than the "door matt".
“Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently.”
“Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact". (for example. if a guy disrespects you or upsets you, instead of nagging just step back. just try it, IT WORKS!
“When you nag, you become the problem, an he deals with it by turning you out, but when you dont nag, he deals with the problem.”
“Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't.”
***** amazing book- i highly recommend it!!!
“Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact". (for example. if a guy disrespects you or upsets you, instead of nagging just step back. just try it, IT WORKS!
“When you nag, you become the problem, an he deals with it by turning you out, but when you dont nag, he deals with the problem.”
“Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't.”
***** amazing book- i highly recommend it!!!
9. Mind Power into the 21st Century
I went and attended a seminar by Robin Banks who is extremely fascinated by this book. Easy read. Very insightful.
“Negatives only have power over you when you react to them”
― John Kehoe
“Your circumstances and situations never keep you down. The only things that keep you down and keep you stuck are your thoughts.”
― John Kehoe, Mind Power Into the 21st Century
“Thought is forever attempting to find form, is always looking for an outlet, is always trying to manifest itself. It is the nature of thought to try and materialize into its physical equivalent.”
― John Kehoe, Mind Power Into the 21st Century
“Train your conscious mind to think thoughts of success, happiness, health, prosperity, and to weed out fear and worry. Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and make sure the thoughts you habitually think are based upon what you want to see happen in your life.”
― John Kehoe, Mind Power Into the 21st Century
“Water takes the shape of whatever container holds it, whether it be in a glass, a vase or a river bank. Likewise, your subconscious will create and manifest according to the images you habitually project upon it through your daily thinking. This is how your destiny is created. Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.”
― John Kehoe, Mind Power Into the 21st Century
― John Kehoe
“Your circumstances and situations never keep you down. The only things that keep you down and keep you stuck are your thoughts.”
― John Kehoe, Mind Power Into the 21st Century
“Thought is forever attempting to find form, is always looking for an outlet, is always trying to manifest itself. It is the nature of thought to try and materialize into its physical equivalent.”
― John Kehoe, Mind Power Into the 21st Century
“Train your conscious mind to think thoughts of success, happiness, health, prosperity, and to weed out fear and worry. Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and make sure the thoughts you habitually think are based upon what you want to see happen in your life.”
― John Kehoe, Mind Power Into the 21st Century
“Water takes the shape of whatever container holds it, whether it be in a glass, a vase or a river bank. Likewise, your subconscious will create and manifest according to the images you habitually project upon it through your daily thinking. This is how your destiny is created. Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.”
― John Kehoe, Mind Power Into the 21st Century