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Posted: 5/21/2008 1:46:19 PM | | I second The Celestine Prophecy, that was amazing, it kind of helped me realise a few things in life that were occuring and helped me accept it a bit more. The sequels are great too. | |
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Posted: 5/21/2008 5:08:00 PM | Hi,
Celestine Prophecy was certainly very good but the book that really shifted my awareness to a higher level was:
Conversations With God (book 1) by Neale Donald Walsch
It really changed my whole outlook on life.
Other books worth a read are The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari & The Barefoot Indian. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 12:07:37 AM | A book I read when I was 17, Don Jaun: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Casteneda.
It's an allegorical story of a Yaqui indian who uses Peyote (hallucinogen) to look at the world in an alternative way.
It taught me to see things slightly differently.
Since then, no other book has really changed me in any noticeable way, but that one really stopped me in my tracks and made me think. | |
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Posted: 6/6/2008 2:56:32 PM | "Living The Infinite Way," and "The Art of Spiritual Healing" by Joel Goldsmith
"Mister God, This is Anna" by Fynn
"Illusions" by Richard Bach
"Hope for the Flowers"by Trina Paulus
"Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav
"The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes" by Ken Wilber
"Son Rise: The Miracle Continues" by Barry Neil Kaufman, Raun Kaufman
"Love Is Letting Go of Fear" by Gerald G. Jampolsky
"Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury
"Getting Past No" by William Ury
"Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; An Inquiry into Values" by Robert M. Pirsig
"Lila: An Inquiry into Morals" by Robert M. Pirsig
"The Road Less Travelled" by M. Scott Peck
"Zen and the Art of Leadership"
"Zen in the Art of Archery" by Eugen Herrigel
"You Can Heal Your Life"by Louise Hay
"Love, Medicine and Miracles" by M.D. Bernie S. Siegel
"A Course In Miracles"
"Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal" by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
"Gift from the Sea"by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Living Alone and Liking It"by Lynn Shahan
"Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramhansa Yogananda
"Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux" by John G. Neihardt
"Animal Liberation" by Peter Singer
"Happiness Is a Choice" by Barry Neil Kaufman (check author--there are two books by this name)
"Alcoholism the Biochemical Connection: A Breakthrough Seven-Week Self-Treatment Program" by Joan Mathews-Larson, Phd.
"Sink Reflections" by Marla Cilley
"INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY Series by Piers Anthony
"Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide" by Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever
"Case Against Divorce" by Diane Medved
"Codependent No More" by Melody Beattie
"Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life"
by Henry Cloud, John Townsend, John Sims Townsend
"How to Win Friends And Influence People" by Andrew Carnegie | |
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Posted: 6/6/2008 5:19:16 PM | On The Beach by Neville Shute
The Prophet by Kahil Gibran
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Four books that have at the very least added greatly to my life.... | |
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Posted: 6/6/2008 5:29:20 PM |
A book I read when I was 17, Don Jaun: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Casteneda.
on your profile you state your age as being 42, yet the book you mention wasn't published until 1990...you're a pseudo aren't you ??
..The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy for reasons best left unsaid. | |
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Posted: 6/6/2008 11:24:17 PM | There were a couple I was going to mention but mssg 29 has covered just about every book in the library [ it bugs me when people do that ] I think the only one left after that would be Razzle by Paul Raymond. | |
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Posted: 6/7/2008 12:04:43 AM | | Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance ...fantastic read .Plus ...A Road Less Travelled by M.Scott Peck | |
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Posted: 6/7/2008 12:25:50 AM | | I don't know of a particular book that "changed" me, but after reading Peter F Hamiltons "Night's Dawn" Trilogy I couldn't pick up another book for at least a week afterwards cause it was just an amazing piece of writing that I didn't want to belittle it by starting a book straight afterwards. | |
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Posted: 6/7/2008 12:26:47 AM | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, sort of puts your own problems into perspective. ...............................................................................
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Posted: 6/7/2008 6:18:26 AM |
"How to Win Friends And Influence People" by Andrew Carnegie
.. I thought it was Dale Carnegie .. Andrew Carnegie was a steel baron in the late 19th century America, wasnt he ...?! | |
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Posted: 6/7/2008 6:54:37 AM | How To Be A Complete **stard by Ade Edmonson.
Sorry is this supposed to be a serious thread? :) | |
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Posted: 6/7/2008 5:08:25 PM | I have read a lot of books.... from the age of about 3 years old when my mother taught me to read.... bless her... The first book that I read on my own was called The day the guinea pig talked. by Paul Gallico. This book inspired me to love reading. The book that profoundly changed my life at the age of seven was a short story called The Cat That Walked By Himself by Rudyard Kipling..... I have reservations about the influence this story had on my young mind at the time... as it shaped me to be very detached from life.
The book that has inspired my professional journey that I will take, was a book called Frogs into Princes by Richard Bandler and John Grindler... The book that made me love NLP.
The Nania chronicle's helped shape my spiritual beliefs, and other childhood books I will recommend are.... The 13 clocks and the wonderful O by James Thurber .... Oh and the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, | |
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Posted: 6/15/2008 10:30:33 PM | Oggers: Oops. Sorry about that!
Andrew Carnegie was mentioned in the book, though, as I recall.
"How to Win Friends And Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't think anyone would actually read my long list. :)
My copy of this book is very special to me, as my Grandfather took the original course from Dale Carnegie and gave his copy to my father, who gave it to me.
johnnycomelately1:
Sorry about listing my library. Actually, this is just the highlights.
I am a book addict, to me this is a very short list.
I didn't know people hated me doing that. At least I'm not reading them out loud....
Not very "friendly" or "influential" I guess. I think I will re-read this one! | |
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Posted: 6/16/2008 2:14:39 AM | | in my early 20's i read Neuromancer by william gibbson and was totally blown away by it... made me become a web-designer! | |
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Posted: 6/16/2008 3:13:00 AM |
A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown - a story of adversity and of how strong the human spirit actually is, a true (emotional)rags to riches autobiography of a very special lady. An excellent book about a poly drug addicted prostitute who ended up becoming a judge. Didn't so much change me, I had already changed, but it just reinforced the fact that anything is possible if you put your mind to it. | |
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Posted: 6/16/2008 3:33:48 AM | johnnycomelately1:
Sorry about listing my library. Actually, this is just the highlights.
I am a book addict, to me this is a very short list.
Ideoform.
Ive looked at [skimmed] your post history and I'm amazed you have time to read or do anything else except post on this forum. I understand and agree with you when you say this one is a short list. Its in fact a very-very long list but for you is a little note.
I didn't know people hated me doing that
Ive no idea about other people , I speak only for myself. Ive been known to compose the odd long comment here and there so perhaps not the best person to criticise. I make a conscious effort now to be more concise [a] because I don't want to hog the thread and very few people will have the will or the time to read " War & Peace" novel like comments. Its not as bad if your explaining your view or opinion on a particular matter . But I find It annoying on threads like this where people put up extra long lists, virtually killing the thread and denying others the chance to have their say, as Its already been said.
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Posted: 6/16/2008 7:10:13 AM | @Message 28
"A book I read when I was 17, Don Jaun: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Casteneda."
Yes very interesting book by Castaneda, and of course I believe first published in 1968! If you're interested there is a 30th Deluxe Edition available now to purchase.
The curious thing about the character in The Ginger Man -- Sebastian Dangerfield -- he knew he was a b*stard, who treated people with no respect, was vulgar, an alcoholic but had the compassion to really want to change; such was the morality of the man. And Donleavy now owns Olympia Press indirectly thanks to it.
I also liked this book by Dunleavy 'The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners'. Very insightful.
One of my favourites has to be ...'The Witch, The Lion and the Wardrobe. I loved reading this to my children, then watching it on Dvd. | |
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Posted: 6/16/2008 7:32:40 AM | the karma sutra
im now more flexable 
the fail safe way of going shopping with women and going home with money in pocket was also informative  | |
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Posted: 6/16/2008 7:35:32 AM | Cripes I have read so many books and I think a lot of them have touched me in one way or another. I wouldn't actually say that any have changed me though, maybe stayed in my memories for a very long time but I wouldn't say changed me.
One of my favourite childhood book collections was the Mary Poppins series. It wasn't just one book but several. One of the things that it said in one of the books is that babies know the secret of life and once they start talking they forget it. I believe that as well, it put that idea in my head and i really agree. | |
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Posted: 6/16/2008 7:46:12 AM | "L'etranger" - Albert Camus
"1984" - George Orwell
"The republic" - Plato | |
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Posted: 6/16/2008 5:37:41 PM | johnnycomelately1:
You are right about being concise. My English professor said that again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
I am not going to be concise, because I am not good at concise. At least I am honest about it. I openly admit to hogging the Forums lately. Somebody stop me!
Perhaps the moderators will put a word limit on here if you ask them. You can use me as a (bad) example.
I tried messaging you but I am too old for you. I guess I have had more time to read because of my advanced age. :) I have no restrictions at all. Particularly on my typing. So you can spam me as revenge.
I find your profile to be as long as mine! I also find that I am on your list of annoying things several times: (At least that I will admit to.)
People who talk a lot but say nothing. (Requires people who listen a lot but hear nothing to participate.)
Those who look down on people[esp:when the fool is a 5ft 2in adult male]. (Sorry about that one--can't help it.)
Those who look for trouble but don't know what to do with it when they find it. (Somehow Trouble has found me and keeps stalking me. I'm on his favorites.)
Gossipers who give out all the details without knowing any of the facts. (Facts? What are facts?)
Officious,unreasonable jobs-worths who won't listen to reason. (As per right now.)
People who draw up lists of their obscure likes/dislikes are especially annoying. (And particularly if they respond back.)
I think long things only kill the thread if someone actually tries to read all of it. Most people skip over most of the threads here, as far as I can tell..........
I like when people say the same things twice in answer to a request for opinions. Then it is like a survey. Carlos Castenada was one that I read and almost put in my list, but, I shortened it, actually. I had already read some other books that shared some of the same insights (might have even gotten them from him) when I read his books. He's been mentioned several times here, for good reason!
I like knowing that some books are favorites of more than one person. They might be ones I will pick up next.
As for shushing people, you can save that for the library. Here we enjoy complete silence as a given! | |
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