March 2006 Books
My Hero; The Diamond in Your Pocket: The Journey Home
My Hero
Extraordinary People on the Heroes Who Inspire Them
If we're lucky enough in this life to identify a hero who inspires us, the next question we might logically ask would be, Who inspired that hero?
In My Heroes , forty of the most prominent heroes of our time share in their own words their thoughts and stories about the people who have been the greatest sources of strength and hope to them.
In this stunning collection of essays from military leaders, Nobel Prize laureates, world-class scientists, world leaders, and legendary athletes, you will learn how Nelson Mandela gave real life “Hotel Rwanda” manager Paul Rusesabagina the courage to save 1200 people from genocide, as well as what he taught Muhammad Ali; what sort of woman would toss aside a spectacular career in finance to run the non-profit Michael J. Fox Foundation; what remarkable personality trait Senator John McCain most admires in baseball great Ted Williams; how Annie Glenn inspired her husband, astronaut John Glenn; what Merrill Lynch Chairman Stan O'Neal learned from his grandfather, a former slave; and much, much more.
These are candid stories of real people who know they were touched by someone else's example. In a world hungry for heroes, My Hero reminds us that they come in all shapes, races and sizes.
The editors and contributors are donating all royalties from to the My Hero Project, which was started in 1995 by three mothers concerned about the lack of real heroes in their children's lives. The Project now welcomes more than a million visitors each month to its web site and is used in school, community and library projects worldwide.
The Diamond in Your Pocket
Discovering Your True RadianceLooking for happiness? Look no further. Not that you'll find it here—so sorry.
“I have discvered that it is actually impossible to find happiness,” Gangaji tells us. “As long as you are seeking to find happiness somewhere, you are overlooking where happiness is … in your true nature.”
In What the Bleep Do We Know? I pose that as a real question, not as a movie or book title. And I ask it because a lot of us have been on a conscious spiritual path for a long time, and we know that what she's saying is true, and yet— there's that temptation to look for a way out . Sometimes it's just easier than taking the way in.
But, Gangaji insists, it doesn't work. Oh dear. We know that, don't we? But our knowing is transitory. It comes and it goes, like all mind stuff. Gangaji is after something far bigger than thought, something we all have in the very deepest pocket of our consciuosness: the truth that we are the source of our own being. And that it is in the stillness of being that, which is truly unthinkable, that happiness dwells.
An American woman, Gangaji has shared the simple but reality-shattering wisdom she learned from her teacher. Traveling, she shares the experience of stillness with all who will stop and enter therein. The Diamond in Your Pocket offers insights to trigger questions into your own relationship to life and happiness.
—Chiwah
The Journey Home
The Story of Michael Thomas and the Seven Angels
If you died and an angel came and asked you what you really wanted, what would you say?
Michael Thomas says he wants to go home. And so his wish is granted. But on the way, he is led through a series of adventures and trials in an astounding land filled with anglic beings, wise teachers… and some very sinister entities.
It isn't an easy journey. But he makes it. And as you make the journey with him, you just may recognize a landscape that—for all its apparent oddity—is not so very dissimilar from that of your own life. Will you make it home?
Inspired by Kryon, a gentle, loving embody channeled by Lee Carroll, The Journey Home is a delightful and relevant parable.
—Chiwah
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