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Namaste all.....
Have been reading more than usual lately, and got to wondering.....what is the book that has affected you the most, motivated or taught you. If you could only list one title (and include author, if you can) which book would it be. If someone else has given your answer please respond anyway, would love to see if there is a overwhelming favourite or if the choices are as unique as each of you are! (does not have to be a reiki related book either)
((HUG)) & Blessings..........z

Dear Zizz,

I hate to be mundane, but I will admit that it is the Bible..there are so many books that have inspired me, held my interest & my breath..but it is the only one I go back to & still find something new & exciting in the well worn pages!!

holobon

Namaste holobon!
Not mundane at all! This is a wonderful answer, and I thank you for it!
((HUGS)) & Blessings!.........z

Zizzr

Hi

Only one book??!! How can I choose. There are different books at different stages for different things - each one important in its own way.

Right now I think it might have been conversations with god - neale donald walsch

But tomorrow I might have a different answer!

I'm looking forward to seeing what others say.

Thanks for the question.

Love

Eleanor

Namaste Eleanor!
Yes, that is the tough part....naming just one...(I can't buy all of them! LOL) Thanks for your input....Hope we get more!
((HUGS)) & Blessings!.....z

The Tibetian book of living and dying.
Soygal Rinpocke (sp?) I found great commonality between Christian beliefs and traditions and Tibetian thought. Could be just me though??? It also explained to me the intellectually roots of the metaphysical healing arts.
T2

The Tibetian book of living and dying.
Soygal Rinpocke (sp?) I found great commonality between Christian beliefs and traditions and Tibetian thought. Could be just me though??? It also explained to me the intellectually roots of the metaphysical healing arts.
T2

Namaste t2!
Thanks for answering...I suspected our choices would be a wide range of books. Truely as unique as each of us!
((HUG)) & Blessings!........z

Zizzr,

You seem to have asked the impossible for many of us. One book! I think mine is one author (maybe) Louis L'Amor. His books are full of how to live, love, and die with integrity, honour and spirit. Whenever I need to re-hear some basics I re-read his books (there are a lot of them).

Surprised that I choose fiction? There is a lot to learn from fictional authors as well.

My family has threatened to throw me and all my books out if I don't quit coming home with more. I use my library card a lot but buy the ones I need to.

Thanks for the thought provoking question.

Carolyn

My Dearest ........z

/*\ Namaste :-}}

One book??

- Is a "Trilogy" an acceptable entry??

I sometimes have the bad hobbit of doing things in 3s.

>:-}}

Since "third time's a charm"

>:-}}

If the "Trilogy" is not acceptable then perhaps Amber Wolfe's "In the Shadow of the Shaman".

>:-}}

- or............

Reiki all around,

all blessings,

Firekeeper

Namaste Carolyn....
Thanks for your choice! I know its a hard question....but thought that would be the 'fun' in it. Fiction is good reading too! I appreciate the time you took to answer, thanks!
((HUG)) & Blessings.....z

Namaste firekeeper!
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It is a hobbit of yours to give more than is requested! It is most helpful too, when you do!
I appreciate both your answers....LOL
((HUG)) & Blessings......z

Dear Zizzr
This has given me a headache - so difficult to pick just one book - I guess I have to say that it was the first book my mother read to me as it began a life-long love of reading and thanks to that I get to read all the many books I have loved and learned from. Hope this is not too much of a cop-out :)
Love, Light & Reiki Rainbows
Namaste
Eaglestar

Namaste Eaglestar!
Shall I send Reiki for the headache? ;-) I love your response, but it causes me to ask.....what was the name of that book??? LOL.......
((HUG)) & Blessings.......z

Hi Zizzr, Trust you to ask :-)
It was probably the Bible or childrens bible stories, closely followed by Enid Blyton (so politically uncorrect now - Noddy, Big Ears & the Golliwog :) )all I know is I was able, once I could read on my own, to escape to fanstastical Narnia with the Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe and go on adventures with the Famous Five & Secret Seven (so terribly British what!) Just writing this brings back so many happy memories - headache all gone, thank you!
Love, Light & Reiki Rainbows
Namaste
Eaglestar

Hi Eaglestar!
I enjoyed your answer as you went down memory lane! I am glad the headache i gone in the process! Now, I have to work on not being so predictable, a you expected me to ask! LOL
Namaste.........
((HUG)) & Blessings.........z

Namaste Zizzr,

Great question :)

Without a doubt it has to be 'Soul Retrieval' by Sandra Ingerman. It was like someone turning a light on for me in a dark room, suddenly so much of my past life made sense....I wept when I read it and everyone that I have leant it out to has loved it too :)

Hugs
Helen.

Namate Helen!
Without a doubt? Sounds convincing enough to me! No headache or difficulty deciding? I thank you for your answer!
((HUG)) & Blessings........z

Thanks for the thought provoking question.
For me the BOOK is Shikasta by Doris Lessing.
It is the first in the Canapus-serie.
I thing it is fantastic that any-one can
write something like this. It took me about
6 months to read it. There is layer upon layer
and I don´t think I realized them all.
Namaste, Ragna

Hi ragna

I've tried this book - I got about half way through and it became too much. I might go back to in another lifetime :-}}}

It was very interesting though. That was about two years ago and I might be able to handle it better now.

Congratulations for finishing it!

Love

Eleanor

Namaste Ragna
Sounds like your efforts were well worth it! Not sure I am in the mindset to take on such an undertaking, but I will take it under advisement.....
((HUG)) & Blessings.............n

Namaste zizzr

I know that I only should name one book and that I have already done so,
But,
today I read in the paper that Douglas Adams, the writer to "The Hitchhakers Guide to the Galaxy" is dead.

For the last 30 years I have been reading SF. The stories have an idea and for the most part a paradox in the end.

D. Adams wrote about the planet-makers. They got an order for making the Earth and all the inhabitants from a specie that in our dimension looked like mice.

Among my flower-pots I have two mice. They are made of wire and float on their long pins amidst the flowers. When I attend to my flowers I often think about the mighty men of the world and wonder: "what is the truth?" Are we all ordered by the mice? And all the mighty men, do they ran around to what use, really?

Now the writer is dead, at 49, heartfailure.

Long live the mice AND what they ordered.

Love,

Ragna

Dear Zizzr ~

Oh my, another message board here for me to get hooked on! Kids will fire me soon!! lol

Haven't been on much as i've been engrossed in(what else?) but reading ... currently Hands of Light, BUT I guess THE book given to me for a Christmas present "Black Beauty" - as the story turned me onto reading, and putting myself in anothers place.

Peace. Sands