Tyeee
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Posted: 1/29/2008 4:33:32 PM | While making dinner I had the TV turned to Opra and featured today is the book "The Gift of Fear" and author Gavin de Becker.
The book that could save a life is survival secrets that protect us (esp. women) from violence. Wow, amazing insight and tips!
Charming is a verb, not an adjective.
Why restraining orders often don't work.
Clues to relationships that could be dangerous.
Sounds like a a must-read book. | |
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Posted: 1/29/2008 11:13:27 PM | The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
I've had more than a few women that have read this book tell me they think every guy should read it. It's not nearly as shallow as it sounds. I started reading it and couldn't put it down. I don't know if I'd call it life-altering, exactly, but it certainly offered me a few new perspectives on relationships.
(Okay, I'm never on here and when I am I mostly lurk, but I had to jump in on this one 'cuz the book is seriously worth the read.) | |
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Posted: 1/30/2008 7:56:10 PM | The Perfect Storm - I forget who wrote it and the movie was forgettable too (except for Markie Marks abs) but completely changed the way I thought about men, and while I'm at it ...
The Book of Guys - Garrison Keillor - has a wry, incisive, detailed character study of the various types of guys we have met, all lovable in their own way. Each chapter is a different 'type' I recommend it for either gender
More recently - Eat Pray Love, Liz Gilbert - very inspiring.
And just finished (not 10 minutes ago) The Kite Runner. Wow. | |
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Posted: 2/1/2008 6:07:31 PM | When I read "Being Peace" by Thich Nhat Hanh I was very moved.
It was one of the reasons I became a Buddhist. | |
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Posted: 2/2/2008 4:28:35 PM | | Well i have read alot of these books, being posted on here, just thought i would say a good sight to listen to is www.hayhouseradio.com its a good site just to listen too. | |
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Posted: 2/2/2008 6:39:48 PM | Karma Sutra and the Perfumed Garden worked wonders for me and altered my life.   | |
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Posted: 2/3/2008 11:29:09 AM | The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
The Gay Science (Nietzsche)
The Chuang Tzu (by Chuang Tzu)
Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard)
Each has had a notable impact on me at some point or another in my life, more or less in the order presented. If you're a person of faith, I'd strongly recommend reading The Gay Science and Fear and Trembling as a test and exploration of your faith. If you're just feeling depressed for some reason or another, The Prophet and The Chuang Tzu offer vastly different philosophies/outlooks of life that help balance a person. | |
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Posted: 2/3/2008 11:41:29 PM | Thread like this one and those on astrology, palmistry, etc just make me feel like I don’t belong here. anyway, my books would be:
The Golden Bough: The Roots of Religion and Folklore
The Essential Marshall McLuhan
The Demon Haunted World – Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Blind Watchmaker (only because I read this before I read The Origin of Species)
The Myth of Male Power
Also various essays and articles written by Camille Paglia | |
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Posted: 2/5/2008 11:11:51 AM | | For me it was The Secret. After I read that book and learned a better way of looking at life, it changed me. It has changed my everyday life for the better. I got a gratitude journal for xmas and I use it daily. Also books by Doreen Virtue are good. I am also getting into the Celestine Prophecy. | |
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Posted: 2/5/2008 4:34:37 PM |
What books do you credit with having given you a lasting lesson?
Scott M. Peck - The Road Less Traveled
"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life SHOULD be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them..... and not upon others....
What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or anguish or despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. Indeed, it is BECAUSE of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full as pain as well as joy...... "
To be continued at your local book store.....lol.
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Tyeee
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Joined: 7/6/2007
Msg: 138 | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 4:17:34 PM | I only recently learned of a book which I have just finished reading:
"Descent into Madness, the Diary of a Killer"by Vernon Frolick.
ISBN is 0-88839-321-0.
Published by Hancock House. 1993
The factual book is based on the diaries of Michael Oros, an American draft dodger who settled into the bush of Alaska, the Yukon and then northern British Columbia. The guy was bushed and got increasingly so. His descent into madness is quite clear in his writings.
While I was still living in the north, not too distant from where it happened, he killed a German trapper who I happened to have met up there when I was a teenager. I was also in two of the log cabins which he built. They were incredibly well made, very neat and precise. His craftsmanship was legendary in the region.
To my surprise I learned that Oros also recorded in his diaries his relationship with a hunting guide and his son. I went to school with and played with the son when we were kids.
Oros vowed to kill anyone that came to arrest him in the woods and two years after I left the north country three teams of R.C.M.P. officers were dispatched to arrest him. He did manage to shoot one officer and if not for one fateful circumstance might have easily killed all three teams.
While the book may not have been deeply life-altering for me, it has been a noteworthy and very compelling read.
Tyeee | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 6:20:26 PM | Great question. Most definitely Carlos Castaneda and the Teachings of Don Juan. If you're ever feeling lost, read this book and you will find yourself on the right track again. Actually you'll most likely realize you were never off track to begin with.  | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 6:24:08 PM | | #23 Yes yes yes - Life & teachings of the masters of the far east! I read the entire series - my life changed for sure. Incredible readings, in fact, they are so powerful whoever reads them must pass them onto another person. Don't keep these books - they must be passed on. Enjoy! | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 6:26:09 PM | | The Dictionary & Thesaurus ... use them every day & can't live without them 'cause I'm passionate about words & writing & word games like Scrabble. | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 10:41:09 PM | books don't alter your life
you alter your own ,you choose ,its a persons will power......books are mearly the fuel .
Knowledge is power= power to change | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 11:27:44 PM | The Nancy Drew series. I learned that even in your own tree house, you are unsafe from prying eyes of neighborhood girls.
I asked for Hardy Boys. | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 8:36:58 AM | Non of the so called spiritual self improvement pablum spewed by certain talk show
hosts who showcase these psuedo writers and their latest psycho babble.
Delusional pump and dump mass media tripe. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 10:04:38 AM | from the OP:
What books do you credit with having given you a lasting lesson?
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss >> esp. the quote: "A person's a person, no matter how small." > very koool metaphor(s) for almost any hand life deals .. good, bad, and esp the nothingness of 'indifference'..
Love both those books and have reread both many times, awesome messages always changing ..
Kool thread, thanks!
A.S.is
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Posted: 4/15/2008 10:20:47 AM | Msg. 143, 144 & 145: CL, it would appear that your the post button on your keyboard is rather sticky, hence the duplicate posts. May I suggest that you start typing with both hands instead of just one hand?    | |
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Posted: 5/7/2008 11:46:35 PM | | The Four Agreements - Don Miguel, Sidhartha - Herman Hess | |
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Posted: 5/8/2008 1:06:13 PM | A friend of mine bought "New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle (yes the one that made it to Oprah's book club) and my friend has commented on her outlook on life has changed. Her husband is pretty quiet anyway and didn't comment.
I am not one to buy self-help or self-discovery books but I figured what the heck, I could use some enlightenment and bought the book. Alas I didn't get past the first two pages where he talks about flowers.
I do hope to read it though. Seriously.
Tyeeee | |
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Posted: 5/8/2008 8:19:16 PM | | I read the Power of Now by Eckhart and I didn't quite understand what he was getting at. Some people claim to understand it, but I think they understand it even less than I do. He seems to repeat a lot of the same ideas. Be in the moment, moment, moment, moment............ If you go to the Oprah website, you can do tutorials that go with this book according to my hairdresser. | |
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Posted: 5/8/2008 9:05:29 PM | Xavery - I had the same opinion when I read the Power of Now and have heard several people say the same thing. However the Oprah website might shed some light for me.
Thanks for the tip. And the new photo is fabulous! | |
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