Nurture Yourself ~ Personal Life

Eckhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. This book is the bible du jour - a must-read for anyone looking for a modern take on spirituality... Essential reading for anyone who might be feeling weighed down by the past or fearful of the future.

Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live. Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow.

Internationally renowned Buddhist meditation master Lama Zopa Rinpoche helps us to recognize the root of 'dis-ease' and gives us the tools to create our future happiness. We experience pain on a physical level, but in order to be healed, we must understand where true healing begins: within our hearts and minds.

Popular psychology takes a new turn with this extraordinary book in which psychiatrist Howard Cutler distils the wisdom of the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetans in exile. Blending both scientific insight and Tibetan Buddhist enlightenment, they explore various psychological themes regarding the purpose of life. Why are so many people unhappy? How should we deal with unfairness and anger? How do you handle the death of a loved one?

The timeless message of the book is that we are each responsible for our own reality and "dis-ease". Hay believes we make ourselves ill by having negative thoughts and offers a profound insight into the relationship between the mind and the body. She includes a directory of ailments and emotional causes for each with a corresponding affirmation to help overcome the illness.

According to Transactional Analysis we all have inner drivers and injunctions that unconsciously determine what we do and how we do it. Ever noticed that you want one thing, but that "I should, must, have to" voice in your head pushes you in the opposite direction? This book full of exercises might be of great help to you.

First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death.

Santiago, an Andalucian shepherd boy dreams one night of a treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. He leaves Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver, a well-read Englishman and the alchemist. The ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams.

Wiesenthal's account of what happened to him when, as a concentration camp prisoner, he was called to the bedside of a dying SS soldier to listen to his confession. The Nazi is truly repentant of his actions, and asks for forgiveness. Wiesenthal spends the rest of his life wondering if he made the right choice. Several leading figures in human rights movements have written their comments. This book asks the reader "What would you have done?".

The novel "Eat, Pray, Love" is a true adventure as Gilbert travels the world in search of Enlightenment. She beautifully shares her humanity and her vulnerability as she relaxes into her life. Her love for languages and food are full of passion as her descriptions of both are poetic and mouth-watering. Her search for well-being and spirituality make a fantastic story.

McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure and –ultimate- freedom. A true story of a risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. When the harsh realities of life in the wilderness set in, he realizes the importance of the very thing he wanted to escape; namely, human relationships.

The dignified voice of Morgan Freeman gives the Emperor penguins the grave admiration they deserve. The sheer visual genius of the film shows the penguins hunting underwater, sliding on the ice, and in the midst of kissing. A story of love and more strikingly, survival, March of the Penguins is an eye-opening and educational experience for all ages.

Baraka means "blessing" in several languages; and the viewer is blessed with a dazzling barrage of images that transcend language. Filmed in 24 countries and set to an ever-changing global soundtrack, the movie draws some surprising connections between various peoples and the spaces they inhabit, whether that space is a lonely mountaintop or a crowded cigarette factory. "It's not where you are that's important, it's what's there."