Meditations In Wonderland

Meditations In Wonderland

Effusions of an honest soul, created in a world of her own

Love is the aspiration for communion and solidarity with other souls, and that aspiration always liberates the source of noble activities. That love is the supreme and unique law of human life, which everyone feels in the depth of one’s soul.

—Leo Tolstoy, in a letter to Gandhi

But when a wrong, no matter how flagrant, has continued for a long period of time, people get habituated to it, and it becomes difficult to rouse them to a sense of their duty to resist it, and no less difficult to convince the world that it is a wrong at all.

—Gandhi

For a fighter the fight itself is victory for he takes delight in it alone. And as it rests with him to prosecute the fight, he believes that victory or defeat, pleasure or pain, depends upon himself.

—Gandhi

I hold to the faith that all activity pursued with a pure heart is bound to bear fruit, whether or not such fruit is visible to us.

—Gandhi

Spirituality Book Recommendations, Updated

To spiritual and dedicated bookworms like myself,

For those of you who frequent my Meditation Guide (http://meditationsinwonderland.tumblr.com/meditationguide), consider this an updated list of book recommendations.This particular list is all things spiritual, with is multi-faith.

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The previous edition, which can be found here (http://meditationsinwonderland.tumblr.com/post/27284646829/books-that-will-change-the-way-you-meditate-and-live) is a strict list from my meditation classes I took at Boston College. This is my own personal list of favorite spiritual-based books, each of which have had a profound impact on my own spiritual path, and a few that are on my post-college reading list:

  • A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
  • The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
  • Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul, Jane Roberts
  • Strength To Love, Martin Luther King Jr.
  • A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. ed. by James Washington
  • New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton
  • Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master, edition by Lawrence Cunningham
  • The Book of Secrets, Deepak Chopra
  • The Tao Te Ching
  • Tao: The Pathless Path, Osho
  • The World We Have, Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Love in Action, Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Living Buddha, Living Christ, Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Buddha Mind, Buddha Body, Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha), by M.K. Gandhi
  • The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, edition by Raghavan Iyer
  • How Can I Help?, Ram Dass
  • Awakening Through Love, John Makransky

Books that are on my upcoming reading list:

  • The Places That Scare You, Pema Chodron
  • Syncrodestiny, Deepak Chopra
  • The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth Book), Jane Roberts
  • The Magical Approach (Seth Book), Jane Roberts
  • Women Who Run With Wolves, The Goddess in Myth, Mind, and Soul, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • The Voice of Hope, Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Freedom From Fear, Aung San Suu Kyi
  • The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Soul Writing, Joanne Dimaggio
  • You Are Here, Thich Nhat Hanh

Namaste and happy page turning,

Anna

In a democratic body it is only in the fitness of things that one has to provide satisfactory answers for the questions of every one, big and small.

—Gandhi

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