Spiritual Books to Help Nourish Your Heart and Soul
The last few years has been rough for everyone. And it's times like these when a good read can inspire, motivate, and nourish your mind and soul. Books have the power to help you feel more connected and at peace amidst the chaos — and guide you toward a better place (physically and mentally).
Sometimes reading books about spirituality can help open your heart to things you've always felt or expand your thinking to include ideas you never dared to explore. In fact, many novels – from memoirs to literary fiction to poetry to romance — can illuminate something about how individuals and communities conceive of and get proximity to the spiritual.
These books will surprise you, making you change the way you think about everything— politics, humanity, nature, pop culture, and even (perhaps especially) yourself.
Sometimes reading books about spirituality can help open your heart to things you've always felt or expand your thinking to include ideas you never dared to explore. In fact, many novels – from memoirs to literary fiction to poetry to romance — can illuminate something about how individuals and communities conceive of and get proximity to the spiritual.
These books will surprise you, making you change the way you think about everything— politics, humanity, nature, pop culture, and even (perhaps especially) yourself.
Untamed
by Glennon Doyle Soulful and uproarious, forceful, and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. |
What Matters Most
by Renita J Weems Using the work of Scripture as inspiration, Weems offers 10 lessons that teach women how to discover what their passions are, and how to create direction and meaning in their lives. It helps readers to understand that passion is not something awakened by other people, but an inner source of energy that flows out of every aspect of one's being. |
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Toll The Power of Now is all about slowing down and learning to live in the present moment. This book offered me so much insight into the negative effects of what Eckhart Tolle calls “psychological time”. If you often find yourself dwelling on the past or waiting for better things to come, then this could be the book you need. |
Big Magic: The Creative Living Beyond Fear
by Elizabeth Gilbert This book challenges those thoughts and encourages you to create, just because. Elizabeth Gilbert also talks about ideas and inspiration as spiritual phenomena - she proposes that if you don’t put an idea into action then it will leave you and find somebody else who will! |
Everything is here to help you: A Loving guide to your Soul’s Evolution
by Matt Khan In this book, spiritual teacher Matt Kahn offers support for getting out of our ego space and into the place of the soul. With techniques such as surrender, energy clearing and mantras, this book gives you the tools you need to connect to our heart space and move away from a life of fear and judgment. |
Light in the New Black
by Rebecca Campbell This book is a definite must read for anybody who want to claim back their power! Rebecca Campbell tells the story of her life and how adversity forced her to rediscover her light. She gives practical tools to get in touch with your soul’s calling and find the light that resides within each of us. This is a book that will leave you feeling empowered! |
A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter
by Carolyn Hays Self-aware and intimate, A Girlhood asks us all to love better, not just for the sake of Hays’s child but for children everywhere enduring injustice and prejudice just as they begin to understand themselves. A Girlhood is a call to action, an ode to community, a plea for empathy, a hope for a better future. A Girlhood is a love letter to a child who has always known exactly who she is—and who is waiting for the rest of the world to catch up. |
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating, and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. |
Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender Thinking
by David R Hawkins This book is all about letting go of obstacles and blockages that are hindering our spiritual growth. Through decades of experience as a psychiatrist, Dr Hawkins argues that surrender is one of the most beneficial practices to relieving human suffering and cultivating more happiness, love, joy, success, health, and enlightenment. This book holds the answers for letting go of anything that is holding us back from such a life! |
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