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Category Archives: Inspiring Books
Another update on my list of 100 Dreams….
When I started Inspired! nearly two years ago, one of my first posts was about Laura Vanderkam’s book 168 Hours and how it had inspired me to write a list of 100 Dreams. I only posted 93 of my dreams … Continue reading
Some inspired thoughts from Sister Helen Prejean
I’ve just come back from silent retreat. I’ll write about that in time – I’m still processing everything myself. But in the meantime, one of the things I found extremely moving whilst on the retreat was a book of paintings … Continue reading
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Here’s an inspiring website for you
Here’s a really inspiring idea: the Do Lectures. The Do Lectures apparently began in a field in Wales with the idea that “people who Do things can inspire the rest of us to go and Do things, too.”Go to the … Continue reading
There’s a difference between….
There’s a difference between Loneliness and solitude. Needing someone and wanting someone. Allowing yourself to be used as a doormat and forgiving someone.
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There is no such thing as a good or a bad person….
One of the people who is kindest to me in the whole world is on Death Row because he was found guilty of killing someone else. I have no idea if he actually committed this crime. The point is that … Continue reading
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Allowing life to lead you….
When I finish a really good book, I always feel sad that I’ve finished it. I wish I’d read a little slower. I wish I hadn’t reached the end. But then some books, like John-Paul Flintoff’s Through the eye of … Continue reading
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Can we really trust that life will provide us with what we need?
“If you trust in life and give without any thought of receiving, whatever you need will come your way when you need it,” says Mark Boyle in The Moneyless Man, when he’s miraculously been given some new bicycle tyres just … Continue reading
Should I make a big bonfire of all my self-help books? Or at least give them to the charity shop?
Millions of self-help books are sold every year, generating billions of pounds and raising thousands upon thousands of hopes. Yet of all those millions of self-help books, few are ever read to the very end and even fewer are put … Continue reading
What do we do in the “living” room? We watch telly! Oh the irony….
In his book The Moneyless Man, author Mark Boyle points out the irony that in the room we call the living room, the activity that we do most is watching TV. Does that count as living? I watch less TV … Continue reading
What else could that ring buy?
“What else could that ring buy?” asks Laura Vanderkam in her book All the money in the world. The average couple in the States spends $5.392 on an engagement ring and, according to Laura, it’s not necessarily money well spent. … Continue reading