Quality Books and Reading Materials

Book – Chicken Soup for the Soul – Edited by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen

This deeply inspiring book is truly like homemade chicken soup that warms the soul with heartfelt love. The beautiful collection of 101 short stories both nourishes and deeply inspires us to be all that we can be. Don’t be surprised if you find tears streaming down your cheeks as you read about the brave little boy with cancer on his dying bed being sent off as a hero by the entire fire department, or the young teenager who refuses to give in to her terminal illness and creates an incredible miracle of healing, or young Glenn Cunningham, who after being told he would never walk again, goes on to break the world’s record for the mile. These are stories filled with miracles big and small which leave us deeply inspired to invite more love and more miracles into our own lives.

Available at amazon.com, $9.71 plus shipping

Magazine – Ode

Ode is an independent international journal which believes in progress, ongoing opportunities, and the creativity of humankind. People and ideas that are making a difference take center stage in this refreshing monthly magazine. Ode addresses society’s problems as opportunities for positive change. Stories bridge the gap between thinking and doing, between rage and hope, and the painful gap between the rich and poor. Readers are given the chance to link up with an international network of inspiration and cooperation, strengthening the forces devoted to love, respect, and equality.

Available at www.odemagazine.com, $29.95/year – Monthly magazine

Website – Insight Course

Are you ready to be the change you want to see in your life and in our world? If the answer is yes, the Insight Course was designed for you. This free, online course brings together the best of the Internet to inspire and educate you in a dynamic and powerful way. The journey through the course will expand your awareness and provide tools enabling you to more effectively build a better life and world. The mind-and-heart expanding Insight Course covers a rich variety of life topics masterfully woven together. Course lessons will deepen your insight, expand your horizons, and embolden you to be the change you want to see in the world.

Available at www.insightcourse.net

Book – The Field – Lynne McTaggart

A deeply engaging, in-depth exploration of the place where science and spirituality come together. Subtitled “The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe,” this thoroughly researched, well-documented book provides a solid, scientific basis for understanding miracles and supernatural phenomena. Brilliant scientists in the fields of quantum physics and consciousness studies discover amazing scientific evidence that on the deepest level, we are all interconnected through a vast sea of energy which the author calls “the Field.”

Available at amazon.com, $10.46 plus shipping

Book – Final Gifts – Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley

Two experienced hospice nurses shed important light on human experience at the end of life. Through deeply moving personal stories, the authors provide impressive insights into the experience of dying. Final Gifts offers practical advice not only to involved family members and friends, but also to professional caregivers on how to recognize, understand, and respond to a dying person’s messages. Even for those who are not currently dealing with issues of death or dying, this book provides incredible inspiration, reminding us of the importance of living each moment of our lives to the fullest.

Available at amazon.com, $10.88 plus shipping

Booklet – Simple Keys to a Fuller Life – Fred Burks

The simple keys are: 1) What’s best for all; 2) Opening to divine guidance; 3) Acceptance and understanding; and 4) Love and empowerment. This short essay has deep, inspiring advice for living a more meaningful life based on these life-affirming principles.

Two-page summary available at www.momentoflove.org/keystolife2, free
Full, eight-page essay available at www.momentoflove.org/keystolife, free

Paper – Principles of Transformation

The essence of this profound, inspiring two-page essay is that by opening to and aligning ourselves with our own divine essence, we invite profound personal transformation into our lives. Three principles are suggested to facilitate this process: (1) Seeing the divine in all; (2) Nurturance of life; and (3) gratitude. Through these principles of transformation, you can become a master of empowering your deeper self.

Available at : http://www.momentoflove.org/transformation, free

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Quality Communities

The Love Foundation
http://www.thelovefoundation.com

The Love Foundation is a nonprofit organization with the mission of inspiring people to love unconditionally. Our vision is to assist people by building a practical foundation and understanding of love within individuals and society as a whole.  We share the understanding that all of us are interconnected. Love is the link that unites us all, and this love resides within the heart of every one of us. We are not affiliated with any religious creed or perspective. Our focus is on the practical use, personal understanding, and experience of unconditional love. Through education, research, and charity, we strive to expand this timeless universal understanding.

Web of Love
www.weboflove.org

The Web of Love is an energetic web filled with sacred love which interconnects all people on this planet. In that deepest part of our beings, each of us is capable of giving and receiving limitless amounts of love. Many of us have forgotten this and ended up feeling alone or uncared for in our lives. Wonderful, heart-centered exercises are provided which help to powerfully strengthen the love which flows from and to each of us. This website is a call to remember our true divine nature, and to join together in sharing the abundance of love that lies within all of us!

Idealist
http://www.idealist.org

Idealist is a popular interactive website where dedicated people and organizations exchange empowering resources and ideas, locate opportunities and supporters, and take steps to build a better world. On this resource rich networking portal, you can sign up to receive daily alerts with new opportunities matching your interests. You can also create a personal profile to network with other idealists, learn about community actions in their resource centers, list your organization, and post opportunities, program information, events, and much more.

WiserEarth
http://www.wiserearth.org

WiserEarth serves people who are transforming our world. It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses, governments, and individuals addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more. Content is created and edited by people like you. WiserEarth's motto is "toward a just and sustainable world created by community." It has an international directory of more than 100,000 NGOs  and tens of thousands of passionate members dedicated to positive transformation of our lives and world.

Challenge Day
http://www.challengeday.org

Challenge Day is a one-day program offered in hundreds of high schools which opens students to their common humanity in a way that is simply miraculous. By the end of the day, it is not uncommon to find rival gang members hugging each other and saying I'm sorry, even with tears in their eyes. Click here for a 15-minute video which will almost certainly leave you deeply moved by this transformative work. Challenge Day is also the center of the Be the Change movement. Be the Change inspires people to notice what's happening in the world around them, to choose actions that create positive change, and to act as a living example of the power of contribution and compassion. Their motto is, "You are the heroes you've been waiting for!" For more on this inspiring community movement: http://www.challengeday.org/bethechange/btchome.html.

Global Community For All (GCA)
http://www.inspiringcommunity.org

Global Community for All is a non-profit network dedicated to love, healing, inspiration, and intention. GCA is bringing people together to inspire and empower each other in creating a better world on both a personal and global level. Members gather in small, independent groups to share in community together; to set personal intentions; to love, heal, and inspire each other; and to unite in supporting the best intentions of all in this loving community. Click on Inspirations to read wonderfully inspiring stories from different people’s lives.

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