Inspiration

365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love
$14.95
Lovely book with good quotes and nice thoughts. A friend bought it for her seriously ill mother to read in hospital and thumbing through it I saw quite a few quotes that resonated with me so I ordered it too. It's a daily reading book, so you dip in and dip out, and it works beautifully on that level.

Edited to add that it's definitely got a religious aspect which wasn't clear to me initially. This has a mainstream Christian feel to some of the commentary.

Inspiration 8.0 CD-ROM [VISTA & OSX]
$69.00
I acquired this for a graduate college course, but never really got into it until we started using it in my job to map out the flow of online instructional curricula. It's easier to use than Vizio and certainly gets the job done. I especially like being able to switch back and forth between the graphic and outline views; exporting to a Word doc is easy and convenient, too. I use it for all my writing development now.

Igniting Inspiration: A Persuasion Manual for Visionaries
$14.99
This a book that chalenged my unexamined assuptions on why I have so often had the experience forget them , you will never reach them, ect and yet also have felt that Togeather we can work wonders. Now for the first time I can see why I have felt at both ends of the poles in working with groups. When things worked it was so wonderfull and fullfiling and at other times I thought I will never work with another group for the rest of my life! Now I can see why I have felt that way.
Like most people I was never given the Map or the context in which to understand the dynamics that make us humans tick the way John lays it out.
I am in awe of how he demystifies such seemingly complex interactions and shows us how we all can learn to have the ability to inspire others as we also inspire ourselves.
I have read some of the best books ever written, the kind that forever change your world view and leave you with increased hope and compasion while also energizing you to go even further, this is one of those books, I am simply Inspired, which according to John is our natural state!

Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling
$14.95
There are some good points to this book. Overall, Dyer makes a lot of good points and suggestions regarding how to live a life "in spirit" instead of being ruled by the ego. Of course, if you have read a few other new age books in your life time, the concepts about the ego are going to be nothing new to you.

As explained by a few reviewers before me, I had some problems with some of the things the author said or did with the book. He clearly states that the book is sort of repetitive because he wants to emphasize the importance of living in spirit, but he also mentions that his books are just basically all of his journal writings put together into a book (which his editor does). As I read the book, I noticed he would say something in one chapter about a particular quote or person he looked up to, and then a few chapters later would introduce the person again, as if each chapter of the book is not even connected with any other chapter. He would also do this when telling stories or emphasizing points.

He also tells us that material posessions and the desire for them are part of the ego, but I can only imagine that Dr. Dyer is probably living in a mansion somewhere in Maui and it's easy for him to preach to us about not worrying about having enough money. And related to this, he also adds a plea for us to send money to help pay for Ram Dass's house in Maui. Now I have respect for both Dass and Dyer for everything they have done, but what kind of house are we paying for exactly? I wouldn't be surprised if it is a house way beyond what he actually needs, and yet Dr. Dyer still felt the need to ask everyone to send money.

He also tells us to live a debt free live, and don't buy anything unless you have the money to pay for it. So I guess the average person will never be able to buy a house, a car, or any other expensive item, or get student loans to go to college. Dr. Dyer, I'm sorry to say that we don't have millions of dollars for publishing our "writings," nobody is going to pay for our houses when we hit financial trouble, and we don't have the luxury of paying for everything out of pocket with our vast amount of disposable income.