RECOMMENDED READINGS:

MEDITATION / WELL-BEING / CONTEMPLATIVE:

Coming To Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness, by Jon Kabat-Zinn

*Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, by Jon Kabat-Zinn

*Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (15th Anniversary Edition, 2005), by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Peace is Every Step, by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Miracle of Mindfulness, by Thich Nhat Hanh

Anger, by Thich Nhat Hanh

Radical Acceptance, by Tara Brach

Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, by Dean Ornish

The Experience of Insight, by Joseph Goldstein

Listening to Your Life, by Frederick Buechner

A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield

A Still Forest Pool, by Jack Kornfield

Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings, by Stephen Levine

Time Shifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life, by Stephan Rechtschaffen

Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman

Being Home, by Gunilla Norris

Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind, by Roger Walsh

Wake Up To Your Life, by Ken McLeod

Wisdom Distilled from the Daily, by Joan Chittister

Centering Prayer In Daily Life and Ministry, Edited by Gustave Reininger

The Wisdom of Listening, Edited by Mark Brady

Sacred Time, by Gary Eberle

Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr

Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God by James Finley

The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, by Chip Hartranft
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BUILDING DEPTH & CREATIVITY IN LIFE AND WORK / THE NATURAL WORLD CALLS US

The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore

Art Is a Way of Knowing, by Pat Allen

Sensory Awareness: The ReDiscovery of Experiencing through Workshops with Charlotte Selver, by Charles Brooks

Writing Down the Bones, &
Wild Mind, both by Natalie Goldberg

Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing, by Frederick Franck

Creating Mandalas, by Suzanne Fincher

The Zen of Creativity, by John D. Loori

The Courage to Teach, by Parker Palmer

The Elegant Universe, by B. Greene

The Re-Invention of Work, by Matthew Fox
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PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE / MEDITATION & SCIENCE:

Mindfulness & Psychotherapy, Edited by Christopher Germer, Ronald Siegel, Paul Fulton

The Mindful Brain, by Daniel Siegel

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships by Louis Cozolino

Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration, by Jeffrey B. Rubin

Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine, by Saki Santorelli

A Psychoanalysis for Our Time: Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I, by Jeffrey B. Rubin

Psychoanalysis and Buddhism, editor Jeremy Safran

Thoughts Without A Thinker by Mark Epstein

Going On Being, by Mark Epstein

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, by Segal, Williams & Teasdale

Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life, by Robert D. Stolorow & George E. Atwood

Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice, by Donna Orange, George Atwwood & Robert Stolorow

Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method, by Ron Kurtz

Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder, by Marsha M. Linehan
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, by Marsha M. Linehan

Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting, by Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn

Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive -Compulsive Behavior, by Jeffrey Schwartz

Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision, edited by Roger Walsh and Frances Vaugh

The Psychology of Awakening, edited by Watson, Batchelor & Claxton

The Family Crucible, by Augustus Napier and Carl Whitaker

Wholeness and The Implicate Order, by David Bohm

The Dharma of Natural Systems, by Joanna Macy

Forgive For Good, by Fred Luskin

Focusing, by Eugene Gendlin

This is not meant to be a comprehensive or exhaustive list. 

It is just an invitation to 

enjoy a little food for thought.