Excellent selections!
I didn't see/missed:
The 48 Laws of Power
The 33 Strategies of War
The Art of Seduction
- Robert Green
The Complete Drizzt Do'Urden Series
- R A Salvatore
Ender's Game
- Orson Scott Card
Lies My Teacher Told me
- Unknown
Excellent selections!
I didn't see/missed:
The 48 Laws of Power
The 33 Strategies of War
The Art of Seduction
- Robert Green
The Complete Drizzt Do'Urden Series
- R A Salvatore
Ender's Game
- Orson Scott Card
Lies My Teacher Told me
- Unknown
Hugh Prather "Notes to Myself" -- the very first time I understood the term "honesty"
Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see
“You say you just want to be my friend. I know that you mean you want to relate to my mind but not my body. I can understand that and will not ask you to relate to me in a way that you don't want to, or talk to me about subjects you find uncomfortable. But likewise I refuse to castrate myself for you by pretending not to have the feelings I have."
Marquis de Sade "Justine"
The first time I understood the idea of the "libertine"
Very much misunderstood this idea, just like de Sade himself
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/qu...gm36YYWb55P.99
It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that that unfortunate individual called man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life's thorns.
Posted by pumashared (here)
reading is my favorite thing to do. im wondering what book you guys read that changed your life for the better.So far, you've asked and received, but given nothing yourself.Posted by pumashared (here)
could i ask everyone who posts from now on to state how and why these books changed their life. i think that will not only help us understand what the book is about it but how also you were changed personally by it
thanks
How'd you answer your own questions?
Foxie Loxie (17th September 2018), toppy (10th December 2018)
Long Day's Journey Into Night Eugene O'Neill
The first time I understood what a "train wreck" life could be
The "makings of a poet. No, I'm afraid I'm like the guy who is always panhandling for a smoke. He hasn't even got the makings. He's got only the habit. I couldn't touch what I tried to tell you just now. I just stammered. That's the best I'll ever do, I mean, if I live. Well, it will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.”
Posted by meeradas (here)
Posted by pumashared (here)
reading is my favorite thing to do. im wondering what book you guys read that changed your life for the better.So far, you've asked and received, but given nothing yourself.Posted by pumashared (here)
could i ask everyone who posts from now on to state how and why these books changed their life. i think that will not only help us understand what the book is about it but how also you were changed personally by it
thanks
How'd you answer your own questions?
to be honest its not that i do not want to give anything but rather the fact that im young in my journey of knowledge and am no where as close in terms of thinking compared to many members of project avalon. i do not think someone as minuscule as me has any worthy opinion. however since you asked i will list the books that changed my life.
Enders game= this book really changed my life. it taught me that there is no sides. you are always being used or miniplated by someone somehow.
Moonwalking with Einstein= a great book about how to remember complex data words. its an easy read but then i found a website dedicated to training you on using his method to remember stuff. i have done p90x and do intense cardio and ill tell you that if you give me the choice of doing the brain exercises of the website or doing extreme workouts, i would chose extreme workouts. the brain exercises are extremely hard.
Earth Angel (22nd February 2014), Foxie Loxie (17th September 2018), meeradas (11th December 2013), Peter UK (1st August 2019), risveglio (11th December 2013), toppy (10th December 2018), Wind (12th December 2013)
Thanks!
No need to make yourself small; and, your opinion is as worthy or unworthy as anyone's.
To answer your original question :
Believe it or not, it was a simple (in the best sense of the term) math book which i got during a vocational retraining, years ago.
Taught me that all this complicated stuff i couldn't figure out before is quite easy to grasp, if simplified. That changed my (outlook on) life a lot.
All of Däniken's taught me, one can construct a totally different world(view) with the same data the 'establishment' use; that the way of looking at things can change everything.
Other books that 'changed my life' (rather 'facilitated my still-being-around') were M's "Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna",
Satprem's "Adventure of Conciousness", Tweedy's "Daughter/Chasm of Fire",
and Aurobindo's "Savitri" (which i never read fully)... amongst many, many others.
Last edited by meeradas; 11th December 2013 at 08:28.
"Heavens Mirror"- Graham Hancock
"A Sand County Almanac"- Aldo Leopold
"The Secret Teaching of All Ages" Manly Palmer Hall
"Lords of the Left-Hand Path"-Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D.
“Bundinn er bátlaus maður”
Foxie Loxie (17th September 2018), Peter UK (1st August 2019), Wind (12th December 2013)