The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo

Oprah told the studio audience she tries to read a passage every day. The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo is a year's supply of inspirational stories and beautifully written essays that the reader can reflect on in daily doses. "Mark Nepo is a poet," Oprah says. "He's an author and a philosopher and has been through two different cancers. So when he writes, he writes purely from the heart." 

Oprah was given The Book of Awakening as a birthday gift and says she does one lesson from the book every morning. "If we all do it together, we can begin to open our hearts, change the world and begin to have the life you want by being present to the life you have now," Oprah says.