Personal Growth

Dear our beloved crying planet...
by Joseph Ghabi
I read an article last week in The Gazette, a local English paper here in Montreal. It was titled Time is running out and was written by Peter G. Brown. He is a professor in the school of the Environment at McGill University. Professor Brown emphasize

Evening Round-Up
by William Crosbie Hunter
So many people are pleasure mad, they become so deadened by excess of enjoyment and indulgence that ordinary pleasure is uninteresting. They seek unnatural excitement, original methods and unusual activities to appease the appetite.

My Concept
by Joseph Ghabi
From my own personal experiences with relationships I believe in a concept that I have been working with, at least in my mind's eye, which is to give generously of yourself in your relationship. Always do what you can for your partner to make him or her

I Only Meant to Wet My Feet
Say a Prayer For Me: One Woman's Life of Faith and Triumph
by Stanice Anderson
Stanice Anderson shares her inspiring story to show others they too can overcome even the most soul-destroying mistakes - and discover the lifelong assurance of peace and joy through a personal relationship with God. Stanice has lived through it all.

The Power of Concentration
by Theron Q. Dumont
Everyone has two natures. One wants us to advance and the other wants to pull us back. The one that we cultivate and concentrate on decides what we are at the end. Both natures are trying to gain control. The will alone decides the issue.

As a Matter of Course
by Annie Payson Call
In climbing a mountain, if we know the path and take it as a matter of course, we are free to enjoy the beauties of the surrounding country. If in the same journey we set a stone in the way and recognize our ability to step over it, we do so at once

Common Sense, How to Exercise It
by Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
One beautiful evening, Yoritomo-Tashi was strolling in the gardens of his master, Lang-Ho, listening to the wise counsels which he knew so well how to give in all attractiveness of allegory, when, suddenly, he paused to describe a part of the land where

Cheerfulness as a Life Power
by Orison Swett Marden
William K. Vanderbilt, when he last visited Constantinople, one day invited Coquelin the elder, so celebrated for his powers as a mimic, who happened to be in the city at the time, to give a private recital on board his yacht, lying in the Bosphorus.

Day 1: A New Beginning
Change Your Life in 30 Days: A Journey to Finding Your True Self
by Rhonda Britten
Rhonda Britten, Life Coach on NBC's hit show Starting Over, guides readers on a 30-day step-by-step journey to help define goals and make extraordinary life changes in their lives, using practical insights, exercises, and inspiring wisdom.

Heart and Soul by Maveric Post
by Victor Mapes
Many of us, to-day, are disturbed and alarmed by the point of view and the behavior of people about us - especially the younger generation. Girls of good family are seen on all sides, who smoke and gamble and drink and paint their faces and laugh

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
by Arnold Bennett
I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small work, and many reviews of it - some of them nearly as long as the book itself - have been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been adverse.

Wisdom and Destiny
by Maurice Maeterlinck
This essay on Wisdom and Destiny was to have been a thing of some twenty pages, the work of a fortnight; but the idea took root, others flocked to it, and the volume has occupied M. Maeterlinck continuously for more than two years.

The Nature of Goodness
by George Herbert Palmer
Conceivably a being such, as has been described might advance no farther. Conscious he might be, observant of everything going on within him and without; occupied too with inducing the very changes he observes, and yet with no aim to enlarge himself

The Wisdom of Life
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Aristotle divides the blessings of life into three classes - those which come to us from without, those of the soul, and those of the body. Keeping nothing of this division but the number, I observe that the fundamental differences in human

Part One
The Velveteen Principles : A Guide to Becoming Real Hidden Wisdom from a Children's Classic
by Toni Raiten-D'Antonio, CSW
Who wouldn't want to go back to when life was simple and a stuffed animal could fix all your problems? The simple wisdom of the classic children's story The Velveteen Rabbit can be the start of your return to Real. Let this book show you the way.

The Circle of Compassion
Field Notes on the Compassionate Life : A Search for the Soul of Kindness
by Marc Ian Barasch
When I was in my twenties, my Buddhist teacher tricked me into taking a vow of universal compassion. Using some spiritual sleight-of-hand I've yet to unravel, he made it seem I could aspire to a tender concern for everybody, even putting their welfare

Character
Character Is Destiny
by Russell W. Gough, Ph.D.
T.S. Eliot once observed that some of his contemporaries were in the habit of 'dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.' The dream of finding a substitute for character is still, of course, very much alive.

Fed Up With Trying To Change?
The Hoffman Process
by Tim Laurence
Have you tried to change but, even with the best of intentions, ended up doing the same old things in the same old ways? You've read the books, taken various courses, and bought the T-shirt, made firm resolutions and even told all your friends about

The Man in the Black Mercedes
The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
Are you up for a fight? Because I'm telling you, right up front, it's a fight to get from where you are to what you want. That battle is with yourself. We are the rocks we are pushing uphill - if and when we choose to make the push.

The Commitment to Change
The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles
by Karen Reivich, Ph.D., Andrew Shatté, Ph.D.
To the casual observer, Robert was living the American dream. Through hard work and a measure of serendipity, he had moved through the ranks of a Fortune 1000 company. He and his wife, Jeannie, had just celebrated twenty good years together.