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The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
By: Lynne Twist and Teresa Barker (paperback)

This unique and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money–earning it, spending it, and giving it away–can offer surprising insight into our lives, our values, and the essence of prosperity. In this Nautilus Award-winning book, Twist shares from her own life, a journey illuminated by remarkable encounters with the richest and poorest, from the famous (Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama) to the anonymous but unforgettable heroes of everyday life.

Go to http://soulofmoney.org for more information

By: Gina LaRoche

This book is written so that the reader can connect with a word, phrase or sentiment each and every day of the year that will give the gift of sufficiency even if it is just for a moment.

On the top of each page is a mediation space where there are words or phrases. The reader could choose to meditate or contemplate on one or all of the words on a particular day.

After the mediation there is usually a thought for the day. These thoughts can be used as guidelines, coaching or a space for inquiry.

At the bottom of some pages are quotes from famous and the not so famous for you to consider.

Readers may use this book any way they wish. Take what you like and allow yourself to receive the gift of sufficiency today.

By: Spencer Sherman

The Cure for Money Madness makes a golden promise: stress-free prosperity and a lifetime of financial peace.

When financial advisor Spencer Sherman found himself crossing a police line to retrieve his work files from a burning office building, he realized he had money madness. He noticed it in his clients, too: those irrational feelings about money that make otherwise rational adults behave foolishly—buying high, selling low, overspending, lying to their spouses, equating their self-worth with their net worth. Money madness stresses us out, poisons our relationships, and keeps us from making as much money as we can. So Spencer invented the cure. Now, in The Cure for Money Madness, he gives us the tools that have helped thousands of people find greater peace of mind—and make more money.

Go to http://curemoneymadness.com/ for more information.

By: Thomas Princen

Winner of the 2007 Sprout Award given by the International Studies Association.

What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it organize itself, structure its industry, shape its consumption?

Across time and across cultures, people actually have adapted to ecological constraint. They have changed behavior; they have built institutions. And they have developed norms and principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges—at once global, technological, and commercial—require new behaviors, new institutions, and new principles.

In this highly original work, Thomas Princen builds one such principle: sufficiency. Sufficiency is not about denial, not about sacrifice or doing without. Rather, when resource depletion and overconsumption are real, sufficiency is about doing well. It is about good work and good governance; it is about goods that are good only to a point.

By: Brent Kessel

A Financial Game Plan for Staying Safe, Sane & Calm in Any Economy.

Brent Kessel combines the latest financial thinking with ancient spiritual wisdom to shed light on the relationship between people and their money, and offers the reader a program for attaining financial and emotional security. Drawing on interviews with spiritual leaders and financial gurus, Kessel teaches you how to grow more conscious of your spending, saving, investing, and giving, and shows you how to become more financially sound and spiritually at peace.

Go to http://www.brentkessel.com/ for more information.

By: Michael Shut

Talking about money in a personal way remains more of a taboo than sex or politics. To Schut, this seems odd within a Christian context since Jesus addressed topics of money, poverty, and wealth more than probably any other concern.

Michael Schut combines his own thinking with wonderful essays from writers as different as humorist Dave Barry and theologian William Stringfellow.

By: Wayne Muller

In a world seduced by its own unlimited potential, rather than feeling omnipotent we feel powerless and overwhelmed by impossible responsibilities. This is because we have forgotten what enough feels like, says minister, therapist, and philanthropist Muller (Sabbath). He urges readers to step back from their inner pressures and from the externalities of culture, community, and work to reclaim an unshakable trust in their own deep inner sufficiency. We must trust who we are and choose our lives; our so-called shortcomings often aren't defects at all but allow us to be honestly present with ourselves and others, in all our flawed abundance. Further, he says, worrying only saturates us with stress and steers us away from trusting in our essential wholeness and ability to handle whatever comes our way. The greater our heart's capacity for joy, the more we will learn to bear our sorrows; and perhaps the greatest wealth one possesses is one's presence. Readers who mistrust New Age/inspirational snippets should avoid this book, while aficionados of the genre may find wisdom, contentment, and self-acceptance in these same pages. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

By: Victoria Castle

I am not enough! Not smart enough, rich enough, successful enough, or good enough!This is the trance of scarcity? a self-inflicted premise of not-enough-ness? that successfully cripples the lives of people who would otherwise be buoyant and passionate. Here, Victoria Castle offers a prescription for realizing abundance and empowerment.

By: John Robbins

The New Good Life provides a philosophical and prescriptive path from conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption. Where the old view of success was measured in cash, stocks, and various luxuries, the new view will be guided by financial restraint and a new awareness of what truly matters. A passionate manifesto on finding meaning beyond money and status, this book delivers a sound blueprint for living well on less.

By: Anne B. Ryan

What would it be like if we put human and planetary well being at the centre of all our decision making? Enough is the basis of a rewarding contemporary answer to that question. Enough is an ancient concept, which today finds renewed and updated expression in a variety of proposals for a transition to a better world. it underpins proposals for carbon quotas, a citizen's income and intelligent agriculture. the book explores these proposals and also discusses how everybody can be a leader in the movement for enough.

By: Kathy LeMay

Professional global activist LeMay (founder and head of Raising Change), sets out to accomplish a twofold task with her inspirational handbook. First, she ventures to redefine the word philanthropist as an egalitarian title that can apply to the masses as well as the rich. The second is to show readers, step-by-step, just how easy it is to be philanthropic, regardless of personality or personal budget. LeMay's success on both counts emerges from her commitment to her causes, the disarming candor of her personal stories of triumph, and the thoughtful discussion points and charts she provides to structure the financial planning process for giving on any salary. Unfortunately, the book's greatest strength is also its weakness—LeMay's well-presented plan is not a quick solution, but requires time, thought, and preparation. Hopefully, readers will be inspired by her characterization of philanthropy as an act of leadership and bravery in a world that is desperately wanting, rather than be discouraged by the long journey ahead.