Please do tell me at least one book that is life changing to you, I am to discover the truth about Success?

Question

Experiencing Y.our Total Success Now On The Peak Of Y.our Total Life T.here

Answer 1

The Bible. To be honest, I love to read. I have read so many self-help, life changing books that are now resting comfortably on my bookshelf, floor, etc. The one book that I never tire of reading, the one book that continues to show me how to LOVE , not just be successfull in life, or better handle my finances, the only book that provides poetry, philosophy, sociology, theology, lifes' lessons - everything I need - is the holy Word of God.

Answer 2

King Fortis the Brave. While it's not as significant as many of the books mentioned above, it was a great read that helped inspire me to become a teacher and share my love of reading with my students. In that respect it changed, or at the very least sculpted, my life.

Answer 3

How about the Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren?

Answer 4

Fight Club, it's not just a quaint little tale of urban malcontents beating the hell out of each other. It's an existential story about life, society, and having, or gaining, the courage to be unashamed of who you are. It's all very Zen.

Answer 5

The Bible. In particular the books Proverbs, Isiah, John, Acts, and James.

Answer 6

Don't have a novel name. Read the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. There are many subject topics and many people find them thought provoking or direction leading.

Answer 7

The one book that is extremely important yo me is Nahjul Balagha (peak of eloquence) It is a collection of sermons, letters, and sayings of hazrat Ali. This book changes lives and it doesnt stop you read it again and again and again. My Thanks To Hazrat Ali Lion of God, Commander of the Faithful, and The Solver of Difficulties.

Answer 8

When I was a teenager, I was not very happy nor did I feel very secure about myself. I wanted to become a happy, successful person, but I worried that I might not. I read several books that helped me think about ways to make the most of myself; books like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (published in 1936, it has sold over 30 million copies). Other of his books that I read were Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. I also read Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking.

At that time, these books spoke to me, and I tried to practice what I learned from them, but I have to tell you that now I cannot remember anything specific that I learned from them. I think they just helped me think more positively about myself.

What really changed my life were a few significant people who mentored me, who encouraged me to do my best and helped me understand that I could be happy and successful; people like my 4-H leader, my sixth grade teacher, a high-school teacher who helped me with public speaking, a college English professor and a journalism instructor, my boss in my first job after college, and my advisor in graduate school. At every step of the way, someone new came along to help me get started in just the right direction. And at each stage of life, from childhood to maturity, I had friends who had more confidence in my than I had in myself. Then I married the world's most wonderful woman, who has encouraged and supported me in ways no one else could have.

Compared to the influence of these people, there is no book I can identify that really changed my life.

But one that I have read recently has become very meaningful to me. I keep wondering what it might have meant to me if I had heard about it and read it earlier.

It is one that has inspired me and changed my thinking forever. Written by Sheldon Cheney (no, not that other Cheney!), it was published in the 1940s but has recently been reissued. It is entitled Men Who Have Walked with God, and deals with men (and women) of "mystic" faith, going all the way back to Lao Tzu in China and Gautama Buddha in India and coming up to William Blake, the English poet and visionary in the late 1700s and early 1800s. It gives a brief bio of about ten such mystics and fairly clear and complete explanations of their beliefs with special attention of their visions and their influence on others. It includes Plato and Plotinus, Saint Bernard (the saint, not the dog!), Meister Eckhardt, Jakob Boehme, with side references to many, many others. I read it once and then reread it again immediately, taking about ten to fifteen pages a day, almost like an old-fashioned devotional manual. I am not a mystic, but this book almost made me wish I were. It certainly clarified and influenced my sense of values and my relation to the Infinite in my life.

I would recommend it to anyone interested in finding the "peak of your total life."

Cheers! and good luck in finding books--and at least one person--that will bring you joy, satisfaction, and an uplift!!

Answer 9

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. first great book I've ever read.

Answer 10

The Bible. Oh, and also try It's Not About Me by Max Lucado. It's so easy to understand. I like the last chapter of that book. Ok, here it goes...(spoiler!) But you know, if you have questions about the Bible, just email me and please attend Jzone or visit its website. www.jzone.ph. My email addie is [e-mail]