Below are my all time favorite books for adventurous spiritual seekers. These are the ones that truly changed my life and stayed with me long after I'd finished them. Many I've read more than once. I tried to cover the main areas of spiritual interest and divided the books into four categories. If you've read one of these books or you have a book you think I should read, drop a line in the comments! Enlightenment |
The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts If you only read one book on this list, let it be this one. This is the book that cracked open my mind and turned me into a sponge for spiritual knowledge. It's mystical, beautifully written, and will leave you feeling like you are a vital part of the masterpiece that is the Universe. I recommend this book to everyone and have read it multiple times myself. |
Siddhartha by Hermen Hesse As you read this book, you will feel as if you are walking side by side with Siddhartha. You will go on an incredible journey of courage, loneliness, awakening, connection, love, loss, and enlightenment. This book captures the wild roller coaster of emotions and experiences as one awakens spiritually. When you get to the end, you will have a new perspective on your own life and this mysterious journey between birth and death. |
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You are worthy of receiving.
You are as worthy as the flower that soaks up the sunshine. You are as worthy as the mountain reaching for the sky. You are as worthy as the bird singing its song for all to hear. You are as worthy as the wind flowing to every corner of the earth.
You are worthy. In the eyes of the Universe, you are the most precious being ever created. You were created by the Universe and you are one with the Universe.
The Universe wants only to bless you with endless gifts of abundance and love.
For when you feel blessed, the whole Universe feels your joy. Your happiness uplifts the entire cosmic web. When you feel happy and blessed it is nothing short of a miracle. To the Universe, your existence is a blessing. Just as it brings you joy to surprise a friend with a gift, so does it bring the Universe joy to bless you with gifts.
The Universe feels joy in both the giving and in the moment it feels your excitement as you receive. What you feel, the Universe feels. You are One with the Universe. You are worthy of receiving.
To the Creator of All That Is, you are a cosmic gift.
Allow the Universe to bless you with infinite abundance, love, and joy. There's nothing you must do to earn this. You must simply remember who you are. You are One with the Universe. When you receive, you give a gift to the Universe.
You are worthy. You are loved. Your existence is celebrated by every corner of All That Is.
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The above is from episode nine of my podcast, Raise Your Vibration in 5 Minutes. To hear more episodes and to subscribe go here.
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The powerful force that created our solar system lives within you. You are one with the eternal love of your creator. To commune with All That Is, connect with your breath. Your breath is the sacred bridge between your physical self and your eternal self. As you breathe into your spirit, feel the support All That Is has for you at all times.
Surrender is a difficult thing.
It feels like we're giving up control at the exact moment we need to be pulling the reins tighter. It feels counter-intuitive and even reckless. It can also feel downright impossible.
When a huge problem is mounting in our life, our first instinct is to fix it. We want to do everything we can to change the course of things. However, this desire to do it all ourselves doesn't leave any room for the miracles and magic of the Universe. It only allows for things to come in from our own limited perspective.
In order to get the support, guidance, and relief we need, we have to hand it over to a higher source. This higher source can see all available solutions. It can also see all the steps that will get us there and which step we must take next, even if it makes no sense in the moment. And if we're willing to trust and take it step by step, we can receive all that we've been asking for. Like everything in this life, surrender is a two way street. Whatever we do, the Universe does back. The Universe is our constant mirror.
And so when we surrender, the Universe surrenders to us.
When we're trying to fix it all on our own, we've got our heads down, focused only on what we can see in front of us. When we surrender, we throw our arms open and look up. We receive everything that's outside of our current problem. We open ourselves up to what's beyond our present reality. We open ourselves up to new ideas, new people, and to an entirely new reality.
When we are consumed with a problem, perhaps debt, and all our thinking is revolved around getting out of debt, then all our focus is on DEBT DEBT DEBT. However, when we let go and surrender, we allow our energy to free up to other, more positive things. The Universe can only send back to us what we send out. In order to stop getting things related to debt, our focus has to shift off of it.
Once you surrender, all the power and love of the Universe surrenders to you.
Just imagine the forces that created galaxies rushing in behind you, lifting you up and carrying you forwards. This is the power of surrender. It's scary as hell as to let go and trust in something we can't see. But it's even scarier to find out what happens when we don't.
It feels like we're giving up control at the exact moment we need to be pulling the reins tighter. It feels counter-intuitive and even reckless. It can also feel downright impossible.
When a huge problem is mounting in our life, our first instinct is to fix it. We want to do everything we can to change the course of things. However, this desire to do it all ourselves doesn't leave any room for the miracles and magic of the Universe. It only allows for things to come in from our own limited perspective.
In order to get the support, guidance, and relief we need, we have to hand it over to a higher source. This higher source can see all available solutions. It can also see all the steps that will get us there and which step we must take next, even if it makes no sense in the moment. And if we're willing to trust and take it step by step, we can receive all that we've been asking for. Like everything in this life, surrender is a two way street. Whatever we do, the Universe does back. The Universe is our constant mirror.
And so when we surrender, the Universe surrenders to us.
When we're trying to fix it all on our own, we've got our heads down, focused only on what we can see in front of us. When we surrender, we throw our arms open and look up. We receive everything that's outside of our current problem. We open ourselves up to what's beyond our present reality. We open ourselves up to new ideas, new people, and to an entirely new reality.
When we are consumed with a problem, perhaps debt, and all our thinking is revolved around getting out of debt, then all our focus is on DEBT DEBT DEBT. However, when we let go and surrender, we allow our energy to free up to other, more positive things. The Universe can only send back to us what we send out. In order to stop getting things related to debt, our focus has to shift off of it.
Once you surrender, all the power and love of the Universe surrenders to you.
Just imagine the forces that created galaxies rushing in behind you, lifting you up and carrying you forwards. This is the power of surrender. It's scary as hell as to let go and trust in something we can't see. But it's even scarier to find out what happens when we don't.
If you're struggling to surrender, I would recommend trying a float tank. I've been a huge fan for years, and wrote about my first experience here. You might also like my guided meditation Surrender & Allow. It's deeply relaxing and done lying down on your back.
For years, I have found comfort in the phrase "What you seek is seeking you."
It wasn't until recently that I realized that this phrase can be misleading. It does not reflect how the Universe works, or how we work with it. If it did, all people who are seeking a healthy, loving relationship would be in one. All people who seek wealth would be rich.
And yet, there are people who yearn for a healthy, loving relationship and are in one toxic one after another. There are people who cannot break out of debt, despite wanting abundance more than life itself.
Our desire for something absolutely does call that thing to us. But how we feel when we desire it, where our energy is focused - on the lack or the abundance - determines in what form it will show up.
In other words, if you desire a thriving online business, but your energy is focused on debt and failure, you aren't going to attract success to you. It's not what you want that is delivered to you - it's what you are. What you are vibrating with is sent out like rings in a pond. They go out and out and out, find matches, and then flow back. If every fiber of your being is vibrating with fear, then your fear will be mirrored back to you through loss, bad luck, or even bankruptcy.
However, if your inner self is radiating with the joy of creation, then it doesn't matter what's happening in your business - your joy will be reflected back to you. If, in your mind, you feel you've created something wonderful, and you're excited to share it, that excitement will return to you as customers, good reviews, and good luck.
It doesn't matter what's happening (or not happening) because everything is in a constant state of flow and change. If things look grim, don't focus on that. It will simply amplify it and bring it back ten fold. Instead, get into the feeling of, Hell yes, this all worked out and I am the Queen of My Universe! And then walk around like you really are a queen or king, because when you're royalty, you know that energy bends to your will. You don't ever question how or when. You just straighten your crown and think, Thank you. I am so blessed. Thank you thank you thank you.
Rather than telling ourselves, what you seek is seeking you, it would be more true to say what you feel is showing up all around you.
There is nothing wrong with seeking and desiring things. It's what sets the gears in motion to eventually bring that thing to us. Feeling a strong impulse towards something inspires us to act in ways that will align us with our desire. But at some point, you have to let go of seeking it, because the seeking will continue to reinforce it's not there. At some point, you have to declare it's done and prepare for it's arrival.
You must essentially believe you have it before you have it. You have to trust that all the unseen forces of the Universe are bringing it to you at this very moment. Because when you feel you have it, the rings of energy roll out of you, and everything that vibrates with YES to that will come back to you.
Now put down that fear and pick up your royal scepter. I bow down to your greatness. You got this.
I feel like the entire Universe is a big creative project that's on going.
There's this static state version of the Universe, which is the sort of Biblical idea of it, which says, "The Universe was created and then it stopped. And we're just rattling around inside of it." And then there's the actual truth about the Universe, which is that it's being created.
It's creating itself and it wants to be more complex, more beautiful, bigger, bolder, stranger, and so it's constantly working with new form. So literally every single piece of energy in the Universe is going in the direction of expansion, invention, creativity, the new, strange combinations that make no sense - this is what's happening in real time.
That's what the river and the current of energy of the Universe are. Whenever we step into that and make stuff and participate in that we are healthy because we're being backed up by literally all the energy of the Universe. And whenever we step out of that, and stop being creative, and become passive, the reason we get sick is because we're going against the entire grain of the Universe.
It's unnatural not to make art.
It's no wonder you feel heavy and depressed and lethargic when you stop your creative flow. It's because you're in the wrong direction. There's a field that's going this way, and you're going the wrong way or no way at all. And so when you enter into that stream, you're healed. You're healed by everything else that is also going in that direction.
There's this static state version of the Universe, which is the sort of Biblical idea of it, which says, "The Universe was created and then it stopped. And we're just rattling around inside of it." And then there's the actual truth about the Universe, which is that it's being created.
It's creating itself and it wants to be more complex, more beautiful, bigger, bolder, stranger, and so it's constantly working with new form. So literally every single piece of energy in the Universe is going in the direction of expansion, invention, creativity, the new, strange combinations that make no sense - this is what's happening in real time.
That's what the river and the current of energy of the Universe are. Whenever we step into that and make stuff and participate in that we are healthy because we're being backed up by literally all the energy of the Universe. And whenever we step out of that, and stop being creative, and become passive, the reason we get sick is because we're going against the entire grain of the Universe.
It's unnatural not to make art.
It's no wonder you feel heavy and depressed and lethargic when you stop your creative flow. It's because you're in the wrong direction. There's a field that's going this way, and you're going the wrong way or no way at all. And so when you enter into that stream, you're healed. You're healed by everything else that is also going in that direction.