Comments on: A Spiritual Memoir Every Month to Expand Your Inner World https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/ on Life and Love Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:55:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333908 Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:55:56 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333908 In reply to Danita Sullivan.

I’m right there with you, Danita! The Autobiography of a Yogi wasn’t a clear book for me either. I think his experiences were just so widely different than my own that I couldn’t relate. I’m not a yoga teacher, but I do participate in the 30 Day challenge each year from Yoga with Adrienne. 🙂 This has been my favorite year so far because I’ve given myself permission to really modify the moves to fit my body; I should have been doing that all along. lol.

]]> By: Danita Sullivan https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333907 Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:28:20 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333907 Currently reading , ” The Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramhansa Yogananda– On chapter 7… I think I will be one that does not get it ….and I am a Yoga Teacher…apparently not a very “Spiritual” one. Thanks for all of your book recommendations – we have similar reading tastes!

]]> By: Kathryn Trask https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333754 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 19:43:34 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333754 Very impressed by the memoirs you have read this year, and such a wide range of spiritualities. Certainly would open your mind to so many ways of religion and spirituality.

]]> By: Michele Morin https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333752 Sun, 24 Dec 2023 01:25:00 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333752 This list makes me want to throw out my plans for the year and read memoirs! I can certainly see why some of these were challenging!

]]> By: Barb Hegreberg https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333749 Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:13:37 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333749 What a fun challenge.

]]> By: Lory @ Entering the Enchanted Castle https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333742 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:44:04 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333742 Thank you so much for joining in — you have a fascinating list here. The only two we shared were Autobiography of a Yogi — which has left me scratching my head at its popularity — and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — which I agree was a hard read, but an astounding example of what the human spirit is capable of. The others you read sound very intriguing and I’m glad you got so much out of the project.

Other memoirs I read this year and recommend include The Salt Path, Run Towards the Danger, Nervous, Drinking: A Love Story, Welcome to My Country, and Poet Warrior.

I have started to see every memoir as a spiritual memoir to some extent … and never get tired of these extraordinary stories.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333738 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:26:37 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333738 What I neat summary of your readings. I saw this question this morning what is the best book you read this year? I have kept track this year on Goodreads of every or at least most of the book I read in 2023. Now I am curious how to answer that question. One of my end of the year rituals to do next week – sort of like the one you share here. Merry Christmas, Lisa

]]> By: Lynn Severance https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333737 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:45:35 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333737 “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is an excellent film, as well. They captured his world as seen and experienced by him. Quite a filming feat.

I’ve not written a memoir – but “Sole Sisters” is going through a pilot study with a small group meeting in my home each week. And it works for couples responding to the questions reviewing their lives together. Four couples are going through the manuscript to review it before self publication. The book’s ‘life roles’ questions, when responded to, become the individuals memoirs!

]]> By: Lynn D. Morrissey https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333736 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:23:11 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333736 I loved Rommey’s biography. Well-written. Honest. AND he gave the author complete permission to wrote whatever he wanted and to have full access to Romney, w/o the Senator altering any of it! Plus, he is still in office. Just amazing. I was so inspired by his admission of failures (so transparent and forthright), but also and mostly his willingness to stand up to power and speak truth at great personal and political risk, that I am writing him an “alpha” poem, where this acrostic will form the spine of the poem, vertically, in caps: MITT ROMNEY, UNITED STATES SENATOR. I’ll flesh out the rest of the poem w/ each line staring w/ one of those letters. I wanted to frame it and send it to him, w/ a letter of deep appreciation. People seem to love receiving these, which is humbling, frankly. That said, I have thought better of it. If I frame and package this, officials may think I’m sending something nepharious and it will be trashed. Now I need to figure out a way for him to rceive the letter and poem, just on a sheet of paper. I hope “they” will give it to him. thx for recommending his book. Just finished Enough by Cassidy Hutchison. Gripping. Have Kinzinger’s and hope to read Raskin’s memoirs. Also and foremost, Cheney’s! I normally would never read political memoirs, but I want to know firsthand accounts of what happened.
xo
L

]]> By: Donna Connolly https://lisanotes.com/a-spiritual-memoir-every-month-to-expand-your-inner-world/#comment-333735 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:30:24 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=38216#comment-333735 Hi, Lisa – You are so right about the power of stories. Thank you for sharing these inspiring reviews. Wishing you and your family a happy and healthy holiday season!

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