Recommended Reading
You cannot open a book
without learning something.
– Confucius
Students occasionally ask me to recommend books they can read to learn more about meditation, about the topics we discuss in class, or about my philosophy on life in general.
I am sure there are more books than those listed below that you would find interesting — these represent only a fraction of my personal library — but these are just a few of my favorite books to get you started:
The Bible
Healing and the Mind
by Bill Moyers
Published by Doubleday, ©1993
The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene
Published by W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., ©1999
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Published by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., ©1943
The Divine Matrix
by Gregg Braden
Published by Hay House, Inc., ©2007
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
by Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D.
Published by Reward Books/Prentiss Hall, ©2000
Is Your Teen Stressed or Depressed
by Dr. Archibald D. Hart and
Dr. Catherine Hart Weber
Published by Thomas Nelson, ©2005
Extraordinary Knowing
by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D.
Published by Bantam Books/Random House, ©2007
The Mind
by Richard M. Restak, M.D.
Published by Bantam Books, ©1988
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief
by Gregg Braden
Published by Hay House, Inc., ©2008
The Relaxation Response
by Herbert Benson, M.D.
Published by Harper Torch/Harper Collins, ©1975
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and
The World Through Mindfulness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Published by Hyperion, ©2005
Being in Balance
by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Published by Hay House, ©2006
The Four Agreements
by Don Miguel Ruiz
Published by Amber-Allene, ©1997
The Body has a Mind of Its Own
by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee
Published by Random House, ©2007
Getting in the Gap
by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Published by Hay House, ©2003
Spontaneous Healing
by Andrew Weil, M.D.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, ©1995
The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science
of Prayer and Prophecy
by Gregg Braden
Published by Three Rivers Press/Random House, ©2000
Breakthrough Dreaming — How to Tap the Power of Your 24-Hour Mind
by Dr. Gayle Delaney
Published by Bantam Books, ©1991
Our Dreaming Mind
by Robert L. Van de Castle, Ph.D.
Published by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, ©1994
PART FOUR
CLOSING THOUGHTS
I have chosen to be happy
because it is good for my health.
– Voltaire, author