12 books I read over the summer w/ Quotes
12 books I read over the summer
1.BE HERE NOW by Ram Dass
“In the course of your journey it is most likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of course, some of your existing relationships will move easily into this new domain and the relationship will become deeper and calmer…coming to exist in the eternal present.”
2. Zen and The Art of Saving the Planet by Thich That Hanh
“It was the first time I realized that there can be moments when it’s far better to trust my breathing than to trust my mind”
“The Earth has the power to heal herself and to heal us, and we can trust in that power”
3. Inward by Young Pueblo
“Anyone who is willing
to know
themselves,
to face themselves with
honesty and work toward
loving themselves and
all beings without condition,
is a hero who is adding to the
collective peace of humanity”
4. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D
“If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself agains invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn and pay attention to other people’s needs.”
5. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
“The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is the tool of magic. But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you.”
6. Buddha’s Little Instruction Book by Jack Kornfield
“No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today”
7. Ceremony by Brianna Wiest
“One day, you will have to reinvent yourself outside of the shadow of what everyone else has asked you to be. You will have to ask yourself who you are if you had no obligation to anyone else. You will have to explore who you would become if you knew you were completely free, if you knew you would not be judged, if you knew that all the things you ever desired were simply on the other side of you stepping into who you already are—taking the essence of your soul and turning it into form.”
8. Psychotherapy East and West by Alan Watts
“It has been said that the good doctor is one who keeps the patient amused while nature works the cure”
9. Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
“Somehow with my Latin squares and factorial designs, my isotopes and mass spectrometers and scintillation counters, and my training to consider only sharp lines of statistically significant differences, I have come full circle to stumble onto some of the indigenous ideals: Diversity matters. And everything in the universe is connected—between the forests and prairies, the land and the water, the sky and the soil, the spirits and the living, the people and all other creatures.”
10. F*** Like a Goddess by Alexandra Roxo
“My mind has tricked me into thinking all kinds of things as it tries to protect me from the unknown territory of my next massive expansion.”
11. The Little Book of Letting Go by Hugh Prather
“Some things are simple, and here’s one of them: You can either relax and let go of your life, in which case you will know peace. Or you can try to control your life, in which case you will know war.”
12. The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
“We angels and mortals, believers and nonbelievers,
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud.
Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud.
Peace. We look at each other, then into ourselves,
And we say without shyness or apology or hesitation:
peace, my brother.
peace, my sister.
peace, my soul.