Bookstore: Personal Development

Whether you're taking off for a work adventure or staying close to home, it's always good to do a little "internal" work to keep you grounded.  We have picked out some of the very best titles for enhancing your spiritual life experience.  The JobMonkey bookstore is in partnership with Amazon.com. Reviews are provided by Amazon.com.

Personal Development Books

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success : A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
by Deepak Chopra

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Chopra's teachings are distilled into seven simple principles which can be applied to all elements of personal life to evoke success. The basic idea is that personal understanding and harmony promote fulfilling relationships and material abundance without extra effort: chapters tell how to achieve it.
Synopsis
The creation of wealth has always been regarded as a process that requires hard work and luck--often at the expense of others. In this remarkable book, the author of Quantum Healing and other bestsellers reveals how to align with the subtle yet powerful, unseen forces that affect the flow of money in our lives.

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Hardcover - 115 pages (1995)

Manifest Your Destiny : The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want
by Wayne W. Dyer

Book Description
From the inspirational leader and author of the international bestsellers Your Sacred Self and the classic Your Erroneous Zones comes this mind-awakening guidebook for making your desires reality.

Based on ancient principles and spiritual practices, Manifest Your Destiny introduces the Nine Spiritual Principles that will help you overcome the barriersboth within and around youthat prevent you from getting what you want, including:
Developing spiritual awareness.
Trusting yourself
Reconnecting to your environment
Attracting your desires
Accepting your own worthiness
Practicing unconditional love
Meditating to unlock the power within you
Letting go of demands

Filled with warmth and insight, this invaluable book will help you achieve your goals and take you to a level higher than you've ever dreamed.  

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Paperback - 217 pages (1999)

From Here to Serenity : 4 Principles for Understanding Who You Really Are
by Jane Nelsen

Book Description
The chronic stress of modern life is what keeps millions of people from enjoying the sweet happiness that comes with peace of mind. In From Here to Serenity, Dr. Jane Nelsen shows you how to achieve inner peace by following four basic and easily applied principles: understanding how feelings can act as a personal compass, freeing one's self from the filters of one's thought system, realizing that other people do the best they can with what they know, and learning how gratitude can overcome depression and anger. 

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Paperback240 pages (April 2000)

The Celestine Prophecy : An Adventure
by James Redfield

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A man goes on a journey of self-discovery attempting to retrieve an ancient Peruvian manuscript full of insights into life and spirituality, in a powerful and revelatory fable.

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Paperback - 246 pages (November 1997)

The Alchemist : A Fable About Following Your Dream
by Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke (Translator)

Synopsis
Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a best-selling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.

Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Paperback - 176 pages reprint (May 1995)

The Knight in Rusty Armor
by Robert Fisher

Synopsis
While searching for a way to remove the armor that has become stuck on him, a knight finally discovers the true qualities of knighthood.  The knight discovers new answers by giving up some fixed beliefs. A great short little story.

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Paperback - 73 pages (May 1989)

Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3)
by Neale Donald Walsch

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Blasphemy! Heresy! Who does this man think he is, claiming to speak directly to God?! Jesus did it, Muhammad did it, the Jewish prophets did it, but none of their Gods had the sardonic wit or raw verve of Prophet Walsch's God. Neale Donald Walsch isn't claiming to be the Messiah of a new religion, just a frustrated man who sat down one day with pen in his hand and some tough questions in his heart. As he wrote his questions to God, he realized that God was answering them... directly... through Walsch's pen. The result, far from the apocalyptic predictions or cultic eccentricities you might expect, turns out to be matter-fact, in-your-face wisdom on how to get by in life while remaining true to yourself and your spirituality.

In 1992, Neale Donald Walsch was nearing 50 and feeling less than happy with his life--his four marriages had failed, his relationships with his kids were spotty, his health was poor, and he'd just lost his job. In frustration he dashed off an angry letter to God. As Walsch describes in the three bestselling volumes of Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, God answered back in a personable, colloquial voice. Their conversation continued for three years, as Walsch petitioned God with questions both basic (why do people suffer?) and personal (why couldn't he get ahead financially?). In 1995, Walsch published the first installment of his Q & A session with God, because he felt the material had something to offer whether readers believed the conversations took place, or not.

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Other Neale Donald Walsch Books:
Friendship with God, October 1999
Communion with God, October 2000 

The Richest Man in Babylon
by George S. Clason

Synopsis
This book holds the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money.

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Paperback - 420 pages 1st edition (September 1998)

Surfing the Himalayas : A Spiritual Adventure
by Frederick Lenz
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An engaging true story of a young American snowboarder who seeks "the ultimate high" in the Himalayas. But he stumbles on an experience more thrilling than he can anticipate when he becomes a spiritual apprentice to a Buddhist monk...and therein lies the tale...

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Paperback - 240 pages reprint (January 1997)

Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
by David Quammen

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Besides bringing together a couple decades' worth of literate, eloquent forays into the natural world, this collection of essays from the prize-winning author of The Song of the Dodo is both a wake-up call and a testimonial. Mostly gathered from magazine articles--in particular, from the author's 15 years of "Natural Acts," a column in Outside magazine--Quammen reminds us of the many less-quantifiable virtues of the wild that often get squashed in the path of so-called progress. Beginning with the Rocky Mountain trout that, as a young man, would alter his course through life, and meandering through a variety of travels and experiences around the globe, he touches on issues of wildlife conservation, island biogeography (the subject of his award-winning Song of the Dodo), and outdoor recreation. But there are surprises. Quammen learns about mountain lions by looking over the shoulder of a Montana bow hunter, and he delights in the athletic grace of telemark skiing and white-water rodeo. Still, the rallying cry is made clear in the introduction's first paragraph: "Wild places, in the ordinary sense of that phrase, are in preciously short supply on planet Earth at the end of the twentieth century." .

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Hardcover - 352 pages (February 1998)

Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard