Book List
Reading is the highest activity of the mind. You practice focus, empathy, observation and listening by reading. Below are lists of books that have inspired my practice.
Books I’m Reading Now
- Daughter of Fire by Irina Tweedie
- Poetry as Spiritual Practice by Robert McDowell
- Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver
- What Do We Know by Mary Oliver
Books by Natalie Goldberg
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
- Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
- The Great Failure: My Unexpected Path to Truth (Plus)
- Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft
- Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
- Banana Rose
- Top of My Lungs
- Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World
Books by Thich Nhat Hahn
- Being Peace
- Cultivating the Mind of Love
- Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
- Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Books by Paul Ferrini
- Illuminations on the Path to Nowhere
- Creating a Spiritual Relationship
Books by Shunryu Suzuki
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
- Not Always So
One Robe, Own Bowl – The Zen Poetry of Ryokan
On Love and Barley – Haiku of Basho
The Enlightened Heart – An Anthology of Sacred Poetry
The Heart of Meditation by Swami Durgananda
The Complete Writings of Florence Scovel Shinn for Women
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie
Play of Consciousness by Swami Muktananda
Freedom in Exile by Dalai Lama
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Crooked Cucumber by David Chadwick
Bones of the Master by George Crane
