The following is a list of books that found me when I needed their authors' wisdom and affirming truth. Most came from the library, some were lent to me, and some that I purchased have been passed on. But from notes I've found here and there scratched on scraps of paper, or scribbled in spiral notebooks, I can list the following authors who gradually helped me through dark and disturbing times into the light of new insight and new life.
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess - Leonard Schlain
Anger - Thich Nhat Hanh
Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
Blue Shoe - Anne Lamott
Care of the Soul - Thomas Moore
The Chalice and the Blade - Riane Eisler
Dakota - Kathleen Norris
The Dance of Anger - Harriet Lerner
Deep Play - Diane Ackerman
"Dumbth": The Lost Art of Thinking - Steve Allen
Ecopsychology--Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind - Theodore Rosak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner, eds.
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
The Enneagram and Prayer--Discovering Our True Selves Before God - Barbara Metz and John Burchill
The Essential Teilhard - Passages arranged by Jean-Pierre de Moulin
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
From Sand to Solid Ground - Michael Morwood
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
The Healing Earth - Philip Sutton Chard
In the Care of Strangers - Linda Pischke and Calvin Langmade
Intuitive Healing - Judith Orloff
It Will Never Happen to Me - Claudia Black
It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood - Claudia Black
John of the Cross--Selected Writings - Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
The Joy of Being Human - Eugene Kennedy
Let Me Explain - Teilhard de Chardin
Listening to the Land - Derrick Jensen
My Elders Taught Me - John Boatman
A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
Notes to Myself - Hugh Prather
On Death and Dying - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Original Blessing - Matthew Fox
The Pain of Being Human - Eugene Kennedy
People of the Lie - M. Scott Peck
Person, Process, Presence - Fr. Raymond Parr
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
Quarantine - Jim Crace
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey - Jane Goodall
Reclaiming the Dark Feminine - Carolyn Baker
Resistance and Renewal - Anthony T. Padovano
The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck
Seven Arrows - Hyemeyogsts Storm
Sex, Time and Power - Leonard Schlain
Social Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
The Soul of Sex - Thomas Moore
Spiritual Lemons - Lynn Brakeman
A Spirituality Named Compassion - Matthew Fox
The Spirituality of Imperfection - Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham
Success is the Quality of Your Journey - Jennifer James
Teresa of Avila--The Interior Castle - Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh
Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again - Roger Housden
Trauma and Transformation - Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun
Tying Rocks to Clouds - William Elliot
V/F Validation the Feil Method - Naomi Feil
Violence Unveiled - Gil Bailie
Walking on Water - Madeleine L'Engle
The Wheel of Life - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough - Brad Barris
When I Say No I Feel Guilty - Manuel J. Smith
A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink
Why Not Be a Mystic? - Frank X. Tuoti
The Wisdom of the Enneagram - Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Wounded Healer - Henri Nouwen
I have a lot of reading to catch up with Marcia.
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