the alchemist

if you haven't read Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist", check it out from your library or buy it from a bookstore. Read more about it here.

have you filled a bucket today?

Carol McCloud's book of same title is a guide to daily happiness for kids. It's a great book for teaching children how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love on a daily basis.

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Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet"

Read the book online

Lester Levenson's Autobiography

A short autobiography of an American spiritual master.

Living Meditation, Living Insight

This is a book about "the path of mindfulness in daily life". Instead of focusing on sitting meditation, this book shows us how to meditate as we go through our daily activities. This is very insightful book. I highly recommend this book to any seeker of truth.

You can get the book online in PDF format.

illusions

Imagine
the universe beautiful
and just and
perfect,

Then be sure of one thing:
the
Is has imagined it
quite a bit better
than you
have.

-- Illusions - a novel by Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

A great spiritual book: small and simple enough for kids and adults.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull - a story by Richard Bach

five books for kids

President Abdul Kalam of India in his speech to children in Indian Science Congress asked children to read following five books during 2006:

Empires of the Minds by Denis Waitly
Journey into Light by G Venkataraman
A Brief History of Time by S Hawking
Parallel Worlds by Michao Kaku and
The Best of Indian Physics by Dr Siddharth

- from a news item