Favorite Books + Quotes

This Thing Called You, Ernest Holmes

“To realize that God is ever-present, ever-available, is to know that all the wisdom, intelligence and power of the universe is right where you are. Your word is power when you know this. This is why everything in your life depends upon your belief, why it is done unto you as you believe.”  -Ernest Holmes

Daring Greatly, Brene Brown

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”  

“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light”.      

Practicing the Presence, Joel Goldsmith

“The very moment that any form becomes a necessity in our experience, we are placing our dependence, our happiness, and our joy in that, instead of in the Infinite Invisible which is the cause of the form, and we are idolaters.”

Living the Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes

“We need to know with scientific certainty that there is a Consciousness and a Power in the Universe that responds to us definitely, directly, and dynamically. Each individual must arrive at a place in his own consciousness where this contact is so immediate and so dynamic that if every other living soul denied it, he would still know.”

Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times (audiobook), Bishop Michael Curry

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”

The Sacred Yes, Rev. Deborah Johnson

“You know that you are signing up for a journey that, from a human standpoint, is unpredictable. You are ready to accept the truth that just because you are not in control does not mean that things are out of control.”

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

“Radical empathy, on the other hand, means putting in the work to educate oneself and to listen with a humble heart to understand another's experience from their perspective, not as we imagine we would feel. Radical empathy is not about you and what you think you would do in a situation you have never been in and perhaps never will. It is the kindred connection from a place of deep knowing that opens your spirit to the pain of another as they perceive it.”

A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle

“Whatever you think people are withholding from you—praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on—give it to them. You don’t have it? Just act as if you had it, and it will come. Then, soon after you start giving, you will start receiving. You cannot receive what you don’t give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won’t even know that you have it.”

Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What is Sacred, Mark Nepo

“For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.”

The Great Work of Your Life:A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling, Stephen Cope

“If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you. If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. Now we can add a codicil: If you bring forth what is within you, it will save the world.” 

The Power of a Broken-Open Heart, Julie Interrante, MA

“When we allow our hearts to break open in response to the experiences of life, we see with new eyes—the eyes of the heart.”

Spiritual Economics, Eric Butterworth

“The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need.”