Personal Wisdom

Discover the Japanese wisdom of Wa (和) and learn how harmony can transform your life. What if true strength wasn’t found in competition—but in balance? What if belonging wasn’t about losing yourself—but about finding your place in connection with others? For centuries, the Japanese principle of Wa—harmony—has shaped families, workplaces, and communities, creating one of the most cooperative and resilient cultures in the world. In Japanese Harmony: Finding Balance and Belonging through the Japanese Wisdom of Wa, James D.

Wisdom has always been a precious and powerful resource, but what exactly is it, and how can we cultivate and apply it? As a problem-solving tool, it has never been more necessary, and as a guide to living well, it is our best friend. To explore its nature and use, its cultivation and benefits, best-selling author Miguel Mendonça interviews 25 highly accomplished and insightful artists, activists, writers, and teachers from around the world.

Although millions of westerners practice yoga simply for its health benefits, this multifaceted discipline has far more to offer. In The Jewel of Abundance, author Ellen Grace O’Brian reveals an overlooked aspect of yoga: its powerful techniques for attaining prosperity. Drawing upon the ancient Vedic tradition of Kriya Yoga (the yoga of practice), she shows us how spirituality and earthly success can complement each other, leading to realization of the higher self.

So many people feel stuck in the sameness of day-to-day life, trapped by personal limitations and the strictures of society. You intimately know what's holding you back, but you don't know how to break out of it and get somewhere better. Let Chris Masiello, accomplished business leader, author, and empowerment speaker, show you how to get there.

With his signature clarity and warmth, Bhante Gunaratana shares with us how we can cultivate loving-kindness to live a life of joyful harmony with others. Through anecdotes, step-by-step meditations, conversational renderings of the Buddha’s words in the suttas, and transformative insights into how we live in and relate to the world, we learn that peace here and now is possible—within ourselves and in all our relationships. Bhante G speaks directly to how we can cultivate loving-kindness to find emotional clarity, overcome anger, and become more peaceful—both on and off the meditation cushion.

Climb Greater Heights is a transformative guide for entrepreneurs, business owners, leaders, and CEOs aspiring to achieve extraordinary success. With captivating case studies, actionable exercises, and real-world examples, this guide becomes an indispensable roadmap for high achievers committed to elevating their business performance, scaling their ventures, and creating a lasting legacy in both business and life.

And over 950 more insightful quotes about life, society, human nature, and the art of living one's life to the fullest. These quotes will be useful, insightful, entertaining and a joy to share with others. Get this audiobook now to inspire yourself to live your best life!

This quotes audiobook is an extraordinary collection of the most inspirational quotes from around the world and throughout history. The wisdom here will empower and encourage you to live your life to the fullest. Start each day with a powerful dose of wisdom and inspiration as you are guided to take action, overcome fear, boost your self-esteem, create success, enjoy life, and make your dreams come true.

Dans cet ouvrage captivant, l'auteur explore les dimensions profondes et souvent négligées de la discrétion et du silence, et comment elles peuvent être transformées en un charisme puissant et influent. À travers une combinaison de recherches psychologiques, d'anecdotes personnelles, et d'exemples historiques, le livre dévoile comment la maîtrise de l'art de la discrétion peut enrichir nos vies personnelles et professionnelles.

Chris Heller, a nationally recognized leader in real estate, joins bestselling author Greg Reid to share profound principles and practices for creating unparalleled success in sales, leadership, and relationships. In this engaging parable, you’ll meet Nick, a young sales professional who approaches John, a retiring CEO, and asks for his secret to success. Expecting to receive a single game-changing nugget of wisdom, John instead becomes Nick’s mentor. Over the course of several years, he shares his profound business and success principles with the young salesman.

If you’ve ever wished personal growth came with fewer lectures and more laugh-out-loud moments, this is your book. In Living by the Mantras: Common Sense Wisdom for an Extraordinary Life educator turned entrepreneur Colleen Souza has distilled decades of leadership, parenting, and real-world grit into 21 unforgettable mantras. From “Keep your pants on” to “If it’s wet and not yours, don’t touch it,” each lesson is a bite-size truth bomb wrapped in humor, delivered with the warmth of your best friend and the clarity of your toughest mentor.

The vast majority of people avoid answering this daunting question. As a result, they spend their days aimlessly drifting or scrambling from one task to the next, never deciding upon a larger goal or plan for their future. However, studying the lives of the world’s highest-achieving individuals quickly reveals an essential truth that success—along with meaning and fulfillment—are found in the pursuit of a Definite Major Purpose, a goal so compelling that it inspires you to take action every day toward its attainment.

You know just how she feels: her joy, her curiosity, her will to take on the world. And why she needs the guidance of the person who's closer than close: you. This inspiring companion, filled with wisdom and values and the poetry of daily life, is full of lessons about courage, kindness, respect, boys, her father, dressing up, and all that a mother can do to nurture her daughter as she grows into a woman.

From Buddhist monk Ryushun Kusanagi, the Japanese bestseller (300,000+ units) with a radically simple framework for a better life. A bad first date. An argument with a loved one. A job interview that doesn’t go your way. Our minds react to failures and frustrations with anger and anxiety...

In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at...

Based on a foundational tenet from Conversations with God, “If you do not go within, you go without,” these four lines from Annie Sims’ first inspirational song found their way into Neale Donald Walsch’s CD player...and into his heart. Walsch has trained Annie ever since and now calls her his “teacher of teachers”, as she has not only embraced the profoundly life-changing ideas of CWG - she has embodied them. In Wisdom that Works, Annie shares how she applies the wisdom of Conversations with God to her everyday life, and shows us how we can too.

Listen to writings by Bill Gates, Andrew Grove, Michael Eisner, David Packard and other business leaders. Possessing a rare combination of business genius and true grit, these captains of industry have created unprecedented wealth for their companies and themselves, pioneered revolutionary new industries, and in some cases, directly shaped the destinies of entire nations.

With contemporary commentary by Judith Williamson, the director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center, Napoleon Hill's Action Activities for Health, Wealth, and Happiness will guide you to live your own life, think your own thoughts, find your own goals, and achieve them by gaining power over your own mind. Simply by exercising this profound privilege, you can bring abundance into your life and with it know the greatest wealth of all peace of mind, without which there can be no real happiness.

A journey around the world to find tranquility, quiet the mind, and understand the power of silence. Suffering from information overload and unable to sleep, acclaimed journalist Sarah Sands tried countless strategies to de-stress, only to find temporary relief. Searching for something different...

In our present state of disconnect and loss, Connected Capitalism offers us a deeper and more satisfying approach to both work and life – one that is rooted in relationships, trust, forgiveness, and empathy. What should our post-COVID work world look like? In Connected Capitalism, David...