VIVEKANANDA - Lessons in Classical Yoga

edited by Dave DeLuca

The LAST LECTURE

by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand”
- Randy Pausch

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave - “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” - wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because “time is all you have … and you may find one day that you have less than you think”). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

Hardcover edition
Learning from the Heart by Daniel Gottlieb (January 2010)

Learning from the Heart

by Daniel Gottlieb

Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening

Learning from the Heart is the book chosen to accompany the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa's theme for the Month of January 2010

The answers are in these pages.

With gentle and guiding voice that has endeared him to millions of readers and listeners, Dan describes how we gain deeper wisdom and understanding from the unexpected events in our lives. A classic storyteller, Dan provides tender and deeply affecting "lessons" that reveal his own very human vulnerability as well as the love and generosity of others.

These revelations come from an author who has experienced many forms of loss in his own life. From the moment he suffered a spinal cord injury that left him quadriplegic at the age of thirty-three, Dan found himself facing the kinds of questions that most people encounter over the course of a lifetime. In the process of rebuilding his career, his family, and his life, Dan made discoveries about what all humans have in common, including a longing for love, understanding, and security. And he learned that the speed of life only takes us further away from what we long for.

In these chapters, Dan is unstintingly generous in sharing the thoughts and feelings that heve touched the lives of so many. From "Our Orphanhood" (why the universality of loneliness can make us feel less alone) and "We, the Wounded" (how wounds may be inevitable, but so is healing) to "What Our Children See" (how parental stress can shape a child's future) and "Holding My Mother's Hand" (a moving recollection on the death of a parent), Dan reflects on the challenges that all of us face as humans and the feelings that, too often, we do not allow to surface.

And, finally, Dan succeeds in answering the primary question: What does it mean to be human? His answers - challenging and reassuring, humorous and transcendent - are sure to touch the heart of every reader.
The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist

The Soul of Money

by Lynne Twist

Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources

A Wise and inspiring exploration of the connection between money and leading a fulfilling life.