With so many new books hitting the shelves, we sometimes forget to re-visit those that made an impression on us in the past. There is nothing more delightful than dusting off an old read to find those words that spoke to us so strongly in the past are still relevant today. That is exactly what Connie Linder of Green Pages (http://www.greenpagesdirectory.net), a Hospitality Sponsor of this year’s Good And Green™-The Green Marketing Conference, found when she found herself reading through a classic, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet:

I have many books on my side table but have found great wisdom and insight by re-reading this classic. The current financial crisis is evidence that there is a lack of balance, the foundation from which our financial wealth is built is not solid. Nature seeks balance and when we work within its laws, there is a stability and abundance that flows reflecting this.  I hear wisdom from Kahlil Gibran as he speaks about Buying and Selling in his book The Prophet, when he says, “It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.  Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger... Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weights value against value.”

Other books in my pile include:
Edgar Cayce:  An American Prophet
The Spiritual Brain
State of the World 2008
Sarah Series
The Bible