Self Wisdom

Gigorou (jig-goo-roo) means ‘beauty’ or ‘beautiful’ in Jirrbal, the language of Sasha Kutabah Sarago’s grandmother. Growing up, Sarago didn’t feel gigorou. At a young age, she was told, ‘You’re too pretty to be Aboriginal’. Since then, she’s been on a journey to reconcile her conflict with beauty. In this intimately fierce, funny and reflective audiobook, Sarago retraces her footsteps as a beauty assistant, model and magazine editor to find the answers she’s searching for.

This book was written to help you overcome tribulations in life by engaging resilience, determination, and courage.

This quotes book is a treasure chest, a secret box of feminine wisdom, wit, causticity, and generosity. Here are collected quotes and aphorisms of the most famous, outstanding, bright, brave and strong women of our world, whose talent and belief in themselves have changed it for better. There is a lot that we can learn from these women. This audiobook will be a source of inspiration for all who feel the desire to realize themselves and move towards their goals. It’s gorgeous gift book for your mom, friends, and acquaintances.

Steady, Calm, and Brave is a practical guidebook for life’s most difficult moments. Meditation teacher Kimberly Brown shows you how to meet unexpected circumstances—a serious health crisis, a looming natural disaster, a terrifying accident—with patience, clarity, and kindness. You’ll learn how to support yourself and others with simple mindfulness exercises and compassion techniques drawn from the Buddhist tradition. These transformative practices will help you manage anxiety and cope with loss.

Eitan draws on over 70 years of life experience to bring you a memorable listen about giving it your all and living life more fully from the heart. If you sometimes feel overwhelmed, full of fear, broken, seeking love, wanting to obey God with all your heart, then listen to these guiding words!

Rhonda Hayes promised to give her 35-year-old dying daughter, Sherry, anything she wanted. When Sherry requested that her mother sign up for a dating site, Rhonda was panic-struck. What would people think? Only nine months earlier, Rhonda’s devoted husband, Greg, had died from cancer. Keeping her promise, Rhonda acquiesced to Sherry’s wish. Together they completed a dating profile; moments before hitting "Submit", Rhonda added these words: My daughter has terminal cancer and she is my life right now. Why would I be on a dating site?

Life Reboot: An Inner Wisdom Guide to Finding Your Passion and Purpose will inspire and encourage you to look within to find answers to life's questions. You will be given tools and strategies, based in yoga and meditation, to understand the inner workings of your mind. You will also learn how to listen to the wisdom of your body, empowering you to create a life you love.

There's a dark tunnel, a bright light at the end. You have already seen it several times, but you have never reached the exit. Why? None has ever told you how. That's the tunnel of life; and you are into it. Not being able to be happy is one of the inner plagues of our time. It's what makes it impossible to taste life. With The Transformation You Can, you can discover how to transform your life with seven simple rules to put into practice. These are rules of wisdom and change that everyone can apply in their own life, to grow inwardly, and increase their awareness.

A compilation of personal stories organized by season, The Center Will Hold will inspire people to look at life with gratitude despite the challenges we face.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person. Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them, but because we had them. Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders provides listeners with guidance for any sort of leadership journey. Whether you are a seasoned executive or just starting your first leadership role, this audiobook will help you grow as a leader. Doug Moran starts by posing four critical questions for every listener to consider: 1. Who am I? 2. What do I want? 3. How can I get others to make their own choice to follow me? 4. How can I earn and retain the privilege to lead? If You Will Lead helps each listener discover his or her own answers.

Game of the Gods is an insightful guidebook for mindful living in the modern world. Most of us were not raised to be Buddhist monks nor do we have the luxury of stepping away from our responsibilities and going to an ashram to study meditation and spirituality. This book teaches “the rest of us” how to move towards a more mindful and enlightened way of living despite our daily stresses and obligations. Today’s world can appear rather confusing, uncertain, and sometimes very scary.

Awareness That Heals offers you a variety of practices to be aware of what may be troubling you, while simultaneously finding a place to actively care for yourself. This transformative work will help you respond, in a highly effective manner, to life’s challenges - especially when you are most prone to be critical or to withdraw. Robert Strock is a leading psychotherapist in Southern California, and Awareness That Heals is an expression of the tools that Robert has developed over a lifetime of inspired self-exploration.

As demands on our society expedite, the overall quality of leadership is being impaired. In today's unprecedented environment, conventional leadership cannot take us into the future. We need to find new approaches if we aspire to dramatically increase our supply of self-aware agents of change. It is the design of Open Your Eyes and LEAD to offer us ways to embrace a change in leadership style that will undoubtedly impact us in every aspect of our lives.

Imagine a book of leadership secrets by two recognized leaders: one a successful business executive, the other a legendary general. Now let your mind take a whimsical turn, and you have The Leadership Secrets of Squirrels. Simon Silverback draws on his own experiences and the writings of a revered squirrel general to create a book humorous in concept but serious in content. Each secret in this unique book begins with a quotation followed by a concise statement of well-researched squirrel behavior and how that translates to a leadership secret.

Do you feel that your life lacks meaning and purpose? Have you lost the idea of who you truly are? Do you avoid the real problems in your life? Fears and insecurities are completely normal, but how can we deal with them in a proactive and healthy manner? Think Different will answer this question. We've been told that positive thinking, repeating affirmations and "faking it till you make it" were the key to a happy, fearless, confident living. But do they lead to happiness?

Do you sometimes feel alone? Are there problems in your current relationship? Perhaps you broke up, or are you getting close to that? Do you feel that you are losing control of your children? How is your relationship with your parents? Are you searching for answers and want to change your life, but do not know where to find the answers? Look no further. Why Am I Alone reveals an ancient key to wisdom, happiness, and enjoying life.

"There are two birds, two sweet friends, who dwell in theselfsame tree," says the Upanishads. The first bird, dwelling on the lower part of the tree, lives "in sorrow and anxiety." Unable to see beyond the branches, it hops around compulsively indulging its appetites, eating every fruit, sweet and sour.

The other bird, higher up, can see the whole tree and the wider world - this perspective puts it in touch with its innate sense of being, the quality of existence that it shares in common with all other living beings.

Success and happiness are not exclusive in terms of concrete goods, even though many view happiness on this basis only. Success and happiness are feelings of contentment, knowing that you have what you want out of life. Therefore, success and happiness can be defined in terms of both the intangible and the tangible. There are many happy people who are unknown, but they are accomplishing things. Some garbage collectors are happy; some millionaires are not. Success and happiness are not necessarily defined in terms of fame and money.

Are the kids driving you crazy? Are you facing a challenge? Are money matters uppermost in your mind? Perhaps you're experiencing travel troubles, or technology is about to drive you over the edge. Just listen to this book to ease your stress of the moment, and let laughter erase your tension. Categorized by stress-related themes (such as "Kids", "Jobs", "Spouses", and even "Modern Technology"), just the right quote to amuse and inspire may be found at a moment's notice, whenever anxiety strikes.