Spirituality

This is definitely one of my favorite books with a lot of inspiration on how you want to live your life. If you read it, you can take a little journal and write down some inspirational quotes or ideas. My favorite one: While Santiago, the main character, is searching for his treasure he discovers things and meets people on his way that he never had expected. I think that’s a nice way of describing how the path of our life is truly the goal.

The author describes his adventure on the Trans-Siberian train crossing Russia and the spiritual journey that he experiences during this trip traveling to one of his past lives and trying to get forgiveness for what he did. The book is written with such a suspension that you don’t want to stop reading it.

In this book, Paolo Coelho narrates his pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago, the insights he had, and the exercises he did there. As always written in a very nice writing style.

In this bookm Paolo Coelho writes down different stories from different areas of life – some of them are short, others long. Some are funny, others serious. I loved it.

In this book, Susan Miller describes astrology in general and then goes further into describing the different star signs and their meanings and characteristics. She also talks about the mythology of the signs and their corresponding planets.

The little prince is one of my favorite books and surely one of the most-read books worldwide. There is the very famous quote “On ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.” meaning “It’s only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eyes.”

I have to admit that I didn’t want to read this book at first, even if I had already heard that it was very good. The reason for this was the title which includes the word “God” and that made me think that the book would be full of dogmatism. I had to find out that it’s the opposite. Walsch describes several conversations he had with God as some kind of inner guidance or just unconditional love.

Don Miguel Ruiz is Mexican and belongs to the Toltecs, that’s why he includes ancient wisdom in his books. In the book, he describes four agreements that one should have with himself/herself.

1. Be gentle with your words.

2. Don’t take anything personally.

3. Don’t make assumptions about anything or anyone.

4. Always give the best that you can give.

This book is very inspiring. Viktor Frankl is a survivor of the Holocaust and lost his entire family in the concentration camps. The original title of the book in German is “Und trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen” which translates to “And still saying Yes to life.” In my opinion, this title reflects the book much better than the English one. Frankl himself also spent some years inside these camps and describes this time in the first part of the book. Despite having gone through this horrible experience he still found a reason to live. He spent his life after the Holocaust as a psychologist and invented his own method to help his patients called “logotherapy”. The second part of the book is therefore dedicated to this method and how it works.

In this book which is from 1923 Lebanese-American writer Gibran talks about different aspects of life and gives life advice for them such as marriage, work, crime, time, children, knowledge, beauty, and religion.

Jay Shetty spent three years of his life as a monk and shares his learnings and thoughts with the readers. What I really like is that he combines life advice with his own story but also with concrete tasks that you can do while reading. He talks about the meaning of life, goals, values, contribution to humanity, etc.

The short book describes the life of Siddharta (not the real Siddharta Gautama alias Buddha) who to find the meaning of life lives different kinds of life from being a Samana (someone who has nothing) to becoming a rich man to becoming a simple man and father always searching for more answers.

This book inspires people to find their purpose in life by asking three simple questions:

• Why are you here?
• Do you have a meaningful life?
• Are you afraid to die?

In this book, Robin Sharma tells the story of a very rich and famous lawyer who wasn’t happy with his life and went to the Far East in order to find the meaning of life. After some years he returns home and shares his wisdom with his colleague. He tells him a story where 7 objects are mentioned. After he explains the meaning of each of these objects in a chapter, like purpose, discipline, goals, time, etc.

This book is amazing! It's full of small stories (3-7 pages) and every story teaches you something about an aspect of life. Sometimes the author explains the meaning of the story at the end, but sometimes he doesn't which leaves space for you to interpret it the way you understand.

Eckart Tolle talks about spirituality and how you can be in the moment instead of somewhere else. He gives practical information and explains the topics in a very detailed way. I personally listened to the audiobook because I really like his voice.

In “A New Earth” Eckart Tolle writes about spiritual awakening. He gives many insights on this topic and also different exercises for you to do at home. I personally listened to the audiobook because I really like his voice.

In this book, Ajahn Brahm tells little stories that have a beautiful conclusion. Most of them have to do with Buddhism and its teachings like letting go, trusting, going with the flow, and loving yourself and the entire universe.

This book explains the philosophy of Buddhism with different examples and exercises. The detailed explanations and examples made it really easy for me to understand it.

In this book, Tara Brach talks about radical acceptance and Buddhist philosophies. She also explains situations that she went through or other people that she coached and gives you tasks to do yourself. I really liked it.

In this book, Julia Cameron writes about how to get your creativity or manifestation power back. The book is written as a 12 weeks course with different exercises for each week. I really loved it.

Ich bin ein großer Fan von Laura. Ich höre ihren Podcast, habe ihre 3 Bücher gelesen und 3 ihrer Online-Kurse besucht. Trotz Podcast und den beiden Kursen habe ich in dem Buch noch mehr dazu gelernt. Das Buch ist in drei Teile gegliedert: mit der Vergangenheit aufräumen, im Hier und Jetzt leben, eine Vision für die Zukunft erstellen. Es gibt im Buch auch sehr viele schöne und hilfreiche Übungen.

Dieses Buch ist eine Weiterführung des ersten Buches „Mögest du glücklich sein“ mit einigen Vertiefungen und neuen Ideen. Laura legt hier mehr Wert auf die Zukunft. Es wird viel über Mindset und Glaubenssätze geschrieben. Auch hier gibt es wieder hilfreiche Übungen.

Dieses Buch hat zwar mit Persönlichkeitsentwicklung zu tun, aber ist auf eine ganz andere Weise geschrieben. Der Autor nimmt den Leser mit auf einen Spaziergang und erklärt anhand der Dinge, die dort passieren, verschiedene Themen im Bezug auf das Leben. Sehr schön geschrieben!