Dear Nurtured Entrepreneur,

I once read an interview with an internationally famous author who said he never read the same book twice.  Last week I finished reading a beloved novel for approximately the sixth time in perhaps a dozen years.  It offered up its passages of spiritual wisdom with fresh revelations that inspired and uplifted. 

What books have inspired you as a nurtured entrepreneur?  Whose words have set your mind and heart singing with new ideas and dreams for your creative, work with passion?

Perhaps it is a book on mindfulness that deepens your commitment to conscious entrepreneurship, or an article on marketing that aligns satisfyingly with your spiritual values.  Sometimes even just a part of a sentence or a turn of phrase can fly like an Arrow of Light and illuminate a point in our mind that begins immediately to expand in all directions, taking in – it seems – the whole of the Universe as we know it.

The books that amaze me the most are the ones that I re-read and swear that certain passages couldn’t have been in it the first time around, or the books that you can open to any page and get exactly the inspiration, custom-designed, that you are in need of that very moment.  I’m sure you have some of these on your book shelf.

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.  The at present un-utterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them according to his ability, by his word, and his life.”

-Henry David Thoreau

Go take a look at your inspirational books.  Is there a favorite you haven’t looked at in a long time that just might be holding some untapped insights or timely wisdom?  Letting your intuition guide you, select one and find out.  Repeats can be sweet.

Until next time …