Inspiration
books and movies
Suggestions for books and movies that will truly inspire you.Everyone has a great insight factor about life.Books for adults and children and film tips.Read and watch, learn and enjoy! Use it to your advantage. By the way, if you have a valuable addition? Let me know, because I like to learn.
Books, adults
The life codes - Patty Harpenau
In The Life Codes, life teacher Patty Harpenau provides the rules of life. As living magnets, we possess much more knowledge and power than we suspect. We can awaken these powers within ourselves by knowing their codes. Whoever understands the rules of the game, understands life. Whoever knows the Codes, can start playing the game. The Life Codes explains the game of life in a practical and accessible way. It teaches you the rules of life and thus leads you to new insights, changes and new keys.
The Seer - Lars Muhl
The Seer is the first part of the trilogy The O Manuscript and contains the moving and candid account of a personal and philosophical quest of the author for spiritual awareness. It takes the reader on a fascinating mystical journey in the past and present. The story begins when the author finds himself at a crossroads in his life. He has been ill for years and his personal and professional life is collapsing. Bedridden, he is suddenly brought into contact with a seer who helps him by telephone to regain his energy and who brings him back to life. The Seer becomes his spiritual teacher and he teaches him the deeper truths of existence. We travel with Lars to Montségur in the South of France, where he meets the Seer and where he experiences special adventures. When Lars and the Seer say goodbye to each other at the end, the Seer gives him an old manuscript for safekeeping - an opening to more revelations.
The World Soul - Frédéric Lenoir
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Seven wise men from all continents meet in Toulanka, a remote monastery in the Tibetan mountains. Without knowing about each other, they have received the message that they must travel to Tibet. One of the wise men is a Dutch philosopher, who has brought her thirteen-year-old daughter with her. The girl meets a twelve-year-old lama there, who makes a deep impression on her. Each wise man has a dream that the world is on the eve of a deep crisis. They then decide to formulate seven universal 'wisdom keys' together and pass them on to the young lama and the Dutch girl. They draw on their own experiences and traditions for this. In this way, they give a voice to the 'world soul': a benevolent force that watches over the harmony of the universe.
The Impersonal Life - Anonymous
To you who read this, I speak. To you who seek truth, peace, love and happiness, I AM comes. I AM your self, your deepest inner self, that knows all and always has known and always is. I, your divine Self, bring you these words to teach you that I, your own true Self, AM your only teacher. My words I speak from within to your outer, human consciousness to confirm all that your I AM within you has always known, but has not yet translated into clear and understandable terms.
If you are willing to have this realization within yourself, then follow attentively the explanation I give herein and know that it is your highest SELF that speaks to you through these pages.
Change works wonders - Marianne Williamson
We are challenged by world events, by the tides of history, to develop a more mature frame of mind. At the same time, we cannot do this without looking at what hurts us. Life is not a sad novel that we put down after the end and go to the pub. We are all actors in a vast drama that is unfolding every day, and until we dig very deeply into ourselves, no masterpiece can emerge. How we each play our part determines the outcome of the play.
Change Works Miracles is a spiritual guide to a radically new life. More than ever before, Marianne Williamson urges us that these times, sometimes so difficult, have the purpose of transforming us into who we were meant to be.
Rediscover the voice of truth - Don Miguel Ruiz
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In this book, Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a truth as profound as it is simple: the only way to end our emotional suffering and find our joy in life is to stop believing lies, especially about ourselves. Drawing on an ancient Toltec wisdom, the author teaches us how to restore our faith in the truth and regain our sanity.
Ruiz changes the way we see ourselves and other people, then opens the door to a reality we have perceived since we were very young children: a reality of truth, love and joy.
“We are born into truth, but we grow up with lies… One of the greatest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.”
The Artist Way - Julia Cameron
'I believe that many talented people have lost their creativity. They have been blocked - by a nasty teacher, an envious boyfriend, or jealous parents. But no matter your age or your walk of life, and no matter whether art is your job, your hobby, or your dream, it is never too late or too selfish or too foolish to work on your creativity.' Julia Cameron describes in her workbook The Artist's Way a practical method for removing the various blocks that stand in the way of our creative abilities in twelve weeks.
A happy person and other secrets - Theije Twijnstra
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In this book many secrets of life are revealed in a clear way. Secrets that touch the core of human existence. The language is nowhere woolly or complicated but clear and direct, inspired to inspire man to the heart. The content of this wonderful work testifies to great knowledge of the human spirit and a deep respect for life.
Climbing the Ladder of Consciousness - Soulsupport
Every person has a twin soul. Someone who reflects him deeply. It gives a beautiful picture of the sensitive field from which every person is created.
It explains how your subconscious functions. Guide Thijs explains step by step that it can make a difference, for your view of people, by what information you already carry with you. By how old you have become in your last life, for example.
The book contains themes such as having a male or female soul, sexuality, being damaged while growing up, suicide, dementia.
Guide Thijs has said that heaven is built up from 7 layers of light, just as a rainbow has a structure in light, so does heaven. And these colours also return in the human light body. He calls the layers of light spheres. The angels who reside in such a sphere of light are equal in their purity. The spheres make it clear that you are as far as you are as a soul. This book gives a great insight into how you can climb the ladder of consciousness as an angel.
The Delayed Time - Arnold Cornelis
Delayed time is the philosophical self-portrait of man at the turn of the century. The complaint about the ever-increasing workload and stress shows how we are caught between two definitions of time: the time of the external social clock and the time of the internal clock of the unique hidden program of self-management and development in every human being. If the external clock runs faster and faster, then the adjustment of one's own internal clock is a catastrophic learning process, because the faster your internal clock, the shorter you live, the less you learn, the fewer possibilities you develop and the less happiness you experience. Because the more time, the more possibilities and the more possibilities, the more happiness. At the limit, the external clock destroys our internal self-management system, when our own thinking is reduced to zero, because we no longer have time to think.
The philosophy of Delayed Time develops a completely different vision, a logical reversal. It is not the internal clock that is dependent on the external one, it is the other way around.
Santa Claus & God - Riekje Boswijk-Hummel
Every Dutch child believes in Sinterklaas and loses that belief sooner or later; that is the most normal thing in the world. Boswijk concludes that Sinterklaas is a three-dimensional figure and fits in perfectly with the three dimensions of the spiritual and emotional experience of both child and adult. In Sinterklaas and God, spirituality and religion, faith and loss of faith are philosophized in a light-hearted way, and connections are made between these first and possible later crises of faith. It becomes clear that a deep, fulfilling religious or spiritual experience - in whatever form or tradition - is of great importance. Recommended for adults who want to understand their children better or who want to heal their inner children.
The Kabbalist - Geert Kimpen
What would you do if you wanted to unravel the secrets of life and you met a master who knew all the secrets?
Someone who is willing to teach you anything, but the price he demands is that you give up the love of your life...
Which mission is more compelling? To experience ultimate love? Or to find the answer to all of humanity’s questions?
Read the true story of Chaim Vital in The Kabbalist by Geert Kimpen.
The Storyteller - Patty Harpenau
Every person lives a lifelike story. And do you know what is so amazing? A storyline works a bit like a TomTom: if you turn right somewhere, life navigates with you and you look straight into the eyes of a new story.
Of course you know the story of your history, but have you written the story of your future? This is important because writing who you want to be is a true act of creation... so that the navigation of your soul can seek new paths. And who better to teach you this than the Storyteller?
Educational children's books
A Conversation with God - Neal Donald Walsch
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Conversations with God is a simple, powerful story that teaches children a pure truth: there is no such thing as absolute good or evil; behind everything in the world we call good and everything we call evil, there is love.
Children will discover a God to love, because God is love, as are all the little souls that are a part of God.
There is also a sequel 'A Second Conversation with God'.
Sara and Her Feathered Friend - Esther and Jerry Hicks
A book in which the law of attraction is explained in children's language by means of a girl Sara, who meets a wise owl. Every time she sees the owl, she gets a wise lesson that she will follow. She then always discovers that you will feel better if you follow the wise lesson.
There is also a sequel 'Sara and Seth'.
How yellow became yellow again - Petra Helbers
Do you ever look around at others?
Do you ever find yourself admiring others, or looking up to them? Do you ever find yourself wishing you were like them?
Almost everyone has that at some point. Even Geel. But Geel went one step further. She started doing the same thing as the others. How would that end?
The wonderful path from Wish to Reality - Marinus Knoope
An inspiring book for children that takes them by the hand step by step on an adventurous journey along their own (dream) wishes on the way to realization.
The young reader goes on an adventure with the wish professor and Filo and receives assignments and fill-in exercises along the way.
Being stimulated through play: being in touch with yourself, imagination, learning to express yourself positively, working together, persevering, (continuing to) believe in yourself and your dreams, taking initiative, learning to ask for help. But above all self-confidence.
The Elf Forest - Ewout Storm van Leeuwen
Six-year-old Diana appears to have a strong bond with a mighty beech tree in the mysterious Bran Forest, in a secluded valley in the mountains of Slovakia. The holiday with her father, her sixteen-year-old brother, Michael, and the twin sisters Wendy and Lucy, who are just thirteen, is ruined by bad weather. Their train crashes into a tree and they end up in a guesthouse in Branoçs, near the forest. The father is called away: the torrential rain has also put the project where he works in acute danger. The children are left behind in the half-drowned village. Diana falls ill.
Then the weather clears up and Diana also perks up a little.
They enter the forest that has led them to it. The nature beings have united to save the magical forest, but they need the help of humans to do so.
Kiki conjures with Reiki - Wanda Bijster Smit
Kiki is busy with something mysterious when she is caught by the director of the local animal shelter with a small, black dog. An unknown boy helps her out of her predicament. In return, Kiki tells him her secret. And that turns out to be more important to the boy than he could ever have imagined.
I am what I think - Louise Hay
'Your thoughts determine your life!'
This is the message that Louise has been bringing to people worldwide for over 25 years. Now children too can learn to gain control over their thoughts and words, and thus over their lives.
In this book, children will learn the difference between negative thoughts and positive affirmations. Funny illustrations and simple texts show how to transform bad thoughts and words into nice and positive ones. This ability gives children happiness and self-confidence that they will carry with them their whole lives!
Inspirational movies
The Shift
In the early years of our lives, our parents and society teach us that achievement, worldly success, and material wealth are the goal of our lives, and determine our worth. But most people reach a point in their lives where they ask themselves: is this all there is?
That is the start of the inner journey from ambition to meaning, purpose and content in our lives. This impressive shift - the Shift, in which you discover the real purpose of your life, is the subject of this compelling film.
The Shack
In the aftermath of a terrible personal tragedy, Mackenzie Allen Philips receives a mysterious letter inviting him to "the cabin." The invitation is signed by "Papa," his wife's nickname for God. Mackenzie accepts the invitation and finds himself on a life-changing journey in search of truth, forgiveness, and acceptance.
Little Buddha
In a large American city, a young boy and his parents receive an unexpected visit from a group of Tibetan monks, who believe that their deceased leader has been reborn in the boy's body. Together with the monks, the family travels to the Far East, where the boy must pass a test to see if he is the true reincarnation. In the meantime, the Americans hear the wonderful story of a prince (Keanu Reeves) who became the very first Buddha. A journey to an enchanting place where the present and the past come together.
Aladdin
Aladdin is a street urchin who steals to survive and is in love with a princess, the daughter of the Sultan. He then finds a magic lamp, from which a Genie appears who is able to fulfill wishes. With the help of this Genie, Aladdin then tries to win the heart of the princess. A film full of magic and hidden powers in life.
Gandhi
It took one remarkable man to defeat a world power and free 350 million people. His goal was freedom, his strategy was peace, and his weapon was his humanity.
Gandhi began his career as a lawyer and after years of struggle for his ideals became a modern Messiah, whose passive resistance led to the end of British colonial rule in India. His name is synonymous with an attitude to life that changed the course of history and continues to inspire millions of people. ''Gandhi'' is a masterful interpretation of a great human epic.
Into the wild
22-year-old, recent college graduate Christopher McCandless leaves his family and promising future behind in search of adventure. Without material possessions, away from the pitfalls of the modern world, he tries to find his way in the Alaskan wilderness. Extraordinary encounters and the treacherous power and beauty of nature shape his existence. But can he survive?
Patch Adams
After a short stay in a psychiatric institution, Patch Adams decides to become a doctor. Patch immediately becomes an outsider on campus, because he believes that happy and smiling patients heal faster than others. When he wants to apply his theory during his studies, he encounters fierce resistance and aversion from the dean. However, this does not stop him from making cheerful visits to the patients in the hospital with his friend Truman and his initially skeptical fellow student Carin. But Patch wants more, much more: his own, independent and free hospital where patients are not a number, but real people. Smiling real people.
