Inspirational books

<font color="purple"> What are some books that you have read that inspired you? The two books that I have read so far that are the most inspirational are The Five People You Meet in Heaven and The Catcher in the Rye </font>

1. Words that Heal ... Douglas Bloch

2. Mandala - Jose and Miriam Arguelles

1. The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
2. The Dean's Watch - Elizabeth Goudge
3. The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
4. The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron
5. Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women - Jean Bolen, M.D.
6. Taran Wanderer - Lloyd Alexander
7. A Red Heart of Memories - Nina Kiriki Hoffman
8. A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
9. McElligot's Pool - Dr. Seuss

April Fools Day - Bryce Courtenay
An Unquiet Mind - Kay Radsfield Jamieson

Traveling Mercies
Eat Pray Love

Lovely Bones
My Bloody Life
Road Less Traveled

The Return Of Merlin by Deepak Chopra:

When Deepak Chopra publishes, readers take note. And when he writes about the
Arthurian Tales, what can one say? Intertwining his sense of mysticism, his intellectual scope, and a
fast-paced, very moving, novel in one is a bit much to hope for! But in “The Return of Merlin,”
Chopra has accomplished this feat. Not an “easy read” generally, Chopra’s magical touch with the
printed word maintains his reputation in this tale from Arthur.

In his introduction, Chopra writes that “The Return of Merlin” is about waking up the
wizard that sleeps within all of us, so that we can reclaim the field of pure knowledge and dream
anew world into reality, from the purity of our hearts.”

“Merlin” is another odyssey of life, a story of the traditional good vs. evil and the struggles
therein. It is a story that erases the confines of time. “To be alive now,” he writes, “is to be dead to
the past. To be alive now is to have life-centered, present-moment awareness...(and) you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf, in every petal...in every rainbow...in every breath of every living being.” A momumental undertaking, to be sure.

Taking the Arthurian characters, from Merlin to Arthur to Mordred with a cast of many
others, and mixing in a complete disregard for any logical historical time frame, Chopra explores
this struggle, this “to be or not to be” of Camelot. Despite its frenzy, its whirlwind of action and
activity, “The Return of Merlin” is at once captivating, suspenseful, mesmerizing, combining
elements of spectacular hope and goodness and the depravitiy--nay, the power-- of penultimate
evil, Chopra shatters the pastoral hillsides of our psyche with this very-readable narrative.
Scholarly--yet quite readable!, the book is a page-turner. Chopra’s magic comes alive in a work
that is satisfactory and fulfilling.