Daily Guidance from Your Angels: 365 Angelic Messages to Soothe, Heal, and Open Your Heart Review

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(More customer reviews)"Although the book is geared toward morning meditations, you can benefit from it anytime, day or night. I suggest keeping it on your bedside table or desk so that you can refer to it whenever you need a comforting boost from above." - From the book
Spiritual psychologist Doreen Virtue encourages readers to devote a portion of each day to connecting with the angels in the book Daily Guidance from Your Angels: 365 Angelic Messages to Soothe, Heal, and Open Your Heart. Drawing from years of experience as an angel therapist and clairvoyant, she provides 365 specific messages from the angelic realm designed to uplift, inform and inspire.
In her own spiritual practice, Virtue notes that when she has allowed herself to skip an occasional morning of reflection, her day wasn't as fun or satisfying. Desiring to facilitate daily devotions for readers to ensure a magical, fulfilling day, the author provides reflections ranging from profound teachings to beneficial ways to approach the day. These daily meditations aren't dated, so you can begin anywhere, anytime--either reading consecutive meditations or choosing one at random.
Some of the themes in Daily Guidance from Your Angels include:
*Be Gentle With Yourself
*Say Goodbye to Guilt
*Honor Your Agreements
*Bless Your Meals
*Complete Projects
*Turn Around Nervousness
*Know That You're Perfectly Understood By Us
*Detach From Drama
*Connect With the Spirit of Nature
*Enjoy a Sense of Belonging
*Know That You Can Never Ask for Too Much
*Honor Your Sensitivity
*Listen to Your Inner Child
*Expect Everything to Go Well
I've consulted this book at random several times, and I've found each insight rich with liberating, practical wisdom. As one who is often hard on herself, I am especially encouraged by messages dealing with lightening up, the perfection of all, and treating oneself with kindness.
If you're looking for a book offering spiritual nourishment and angelic awareness, Daily Guidance from Your Angels will help you connect with our unseen helpers and bask in their love and support.
Janet Boyer, author of The Back in Time Tarot Book: Picture the Past, Experience the Cards, Understand the Present (coming Fall 2008 from Hampton Roads Publishing)

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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Review

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(More customer reviews)I've read several reviews of this book and found that, despite Quinn's careful attempts to get his message across clearly and unequivocally, many readers misunderstand the finer points of Ishmael's arguments and end up praising or condemning Ishmael for the wrong reasons. Here is a short list of common misunderstandings you're likely to encounter in the course of reading reviews of this book:
(1) The central message is a hackneyed statement about saving the planet: All we have to do is this or that. We need to treat the earth better, or treat each other better, etc....
No, the author has no such message. He is not even concerned with saving the planet. He merely points out that, in the past, there were many ways a human could make a living in the world that did not threaten to render the planet uninhabitable. As George Carlin once said: "The planet isn't going anywhere. We are!" The author recommends that if we are concerned about our future, then we should find out as much as we can about these other ways of living in the world and what made them sustainable.
(2) This is communism.
No, this is tribalism, the cultural traits of which have been found to be conducive to sutainable ways of living.
So-called communist countries operate the same unsustainable lifestyle as so-called democratic countries and are just as hierarchical and corrupt. Nothing new, except the academic devaluation of the individual. In "democratic" countries, the devaluation is not openly professed, only practiced and theoretically implied. Progress means the same thing in both societies: the technological displacement of people.
(3) The ape is omniscient; skeptics beware.
Skeptics always beware. Ishmael is the ultimate skeptic. He takes nothing for granted. His arguments are based on information available to any human being with a library card. You'll remember that when the student enters Ishmael's room, he notices dozens of books on history and anthropology piled up on the shelf. You don't have to take Ishmael's word for granted. If you're skeptical, go look it up. The ape is not omniscient. He's well informed.
(4) The book proclaims: "There is something unnatural about the way we live."
I agree. There is nothing natural about the way we live. But there's nothing natural about the way any human has ever lived.
There's never been an all-natural people. We are and have always been all-cultural. Nature supplies us with the urges to satisfy certain life imperatives (i.e. nutritional, procreative, protective, etc...). But culture determines the way we go about responding to these urges; that is to say, there is nothing natural about the way we satisfy these natural desires. We may be at a loss to change our nature and the urges we feel, but we are capable of constructing a better, more sustainable way of responding to nature's edicts.
(5) Based on the arguments of the book, one could conclude that "we, as a species, are...."
Quinn has nothing conclusive to say about humanity or "we as a species," except that every human is dependent on culture and that the bulk of the information that constitutes human cultures is mythological. His main concern here is with the general evolution of two distinct ways of living on this planet. One is sustainable, the other is not. We as a species have not messed things up. One culture out of tens of thousands has managed to make a mess of things. By engaging in unsustainable behavior that threatens to destroy the ecosystems upon which humans everywhere depend (i.e., totalitarian agriculture), we - the people of a single culture - are precipitating the extinction of humankind.

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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)The cover of this book says it was a bestselling book of the year at one time. After opening it up and glancing through it, it't not hard to see why.
The pupose of the book is to get you to look at things, common situations we all come across everyday, like being criticized or being given more work than you can possibly finish, and see them a little differently. Believe it or not, it delivers- and in just a page or two at a time if you can believe that!
That's because the wisdom is definitely there, on every page, and it just plain makes sense. Many times I've read a chapter or two and thought, "Why didn't I think of that before?".
The other good thing about this tiny book is that you could either sit down and read it cover-to-cover, or just pick it up once in awhile and pick a random chapter to read. Either way, the mini-chapters are sure to quickly leave most readers wondering why they make such a big deal out of the things they do. Other short self-help books I like include "Finding Happiness in a Frustrating World".

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