What are your five favorite books, and why?
I have read so many books, that this is difficult to answer.The all-time, self-help classic, Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill was the first personal-development book that I ever read. This was about 40 years ago, and it still stands as one of the best, most read, self-help books of all time. It was very influential to my early development. The Holy-Bible, the Tao, and the Gita are fascinating reads, to say the least.
As a teenager, I loved Jack London's, Call of the Wild. It was about a domesticated, pampered dog, who was stolen and forced to become a wild, sled-dog during the Klondike Gold-Rush in the late 1800's. London made you see, hear, and feel like a dog! I also enjoyed the Hardy Boys Mysteries as a youngster.
As an adult, I've enjoyed a half a dozen of Dr. Wayne Dyer's books, such as Your Sacred Self, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, Excuses Begone, and The Shift. I love almost all of the New-Thought Authors books of the late 1800's, and early 1900's, such as William Walker Atkinson, and Judge Thomas Troward. Thought-Vibrations by Atkinson, is a metaphysical masterpiece, and the Dore and Edinburgh Lectures by Troward were very influential. One of the most influential books that I ever read though, was Cosmic-Consciousness, by Dr. Richard M. Buck.
What do you read for pleasure?
Anything dealing with esoteric knowledge, wisdom, and higher-consciousness. These are the books that concentrate on "right-brain" activities.
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