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Posted: 5/8/2008 9:27:28 PM | | I refuse to be self-helped by anyone. I wish to be illuminated. Shakespeare's King Lear or Hamlet is quite therapudic and Nietzche's Geneology of Morals and Paradise Lost make for good light bedtime reading and are instructive of our current malaise. When Oprah's Book Club stickers started to adorn the covers of great canonical classics, I begged to differ in taste almost as a matter of principle. Soon the works of today's celebrated minds will be flung around by corporate entities. See Chomsky sponsored by McDonalds Adult Book Club to raise awareness for children with ALS at a McDonalds near you. | |
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Posted: 5/8/2008 10:05:39 PM | | I find acting out Lear or Hamlet - all roles - extremely cathartic. Today, I played Gloucester and fell to the floor howling when Cornwall gouged out my eyes. However, I am open to being helped by self-help books, even though I am probably beyond help. | |
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Posted: 5/8/2008 10:31:20 PM | He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
by Greg Behrendt
It helped me understand men better. | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 5:15:04 AM | I bought "New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle
I didn't get past page 3 and it sits on my headboard untouched for over a month.... SIGH | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 9:08:10 AM | The Power of Now and A New Earth have the same basic treatise, to paraphrase:
Human beings talk to themselves all the time. A lot of that self talk is negative and has to do with replaying events of our past and scripting a better response for ourselves, or projecting future interactions and how we will respond.
Tolle suggests that neither of these are particularly healthy. Instead of having a focus that is in the past, or in the future, being fully present is where true joy lies.
A good exercise on this one is to become aware of your 'self talk' and what it is saying. | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 11:46:29 AM | Dr Suess, Green eggs and ham. It always reminds me of the crap that we were fed in the orphanage. I swear to gawd that to this day I can’t eat bacon or eggs cuz of that book!
Did it alter my life? Dam rights it did cause it made me understand that my parents dumped me for a bottle and that no matter what happens in the journey of life I will never have to eat green eggs and ham again!
 But I will eat a green pickle! | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 3:06:27 PM | Its quite cool to so many people are reading the same sorta stuff that I am!
Hopefully none of these are duplicates but here are a few I recommend:
Naomi Wolf: The End of America
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
George Orwell: Animal Farm and 1984
The Bhagavad Gita
Albert Einstein - The World as I see it
Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements
John LeDoux - Synaptic Self
The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation: As Taught by S. N. Goenka
Bhudda, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra | |
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Posted: 7/8/2008 11:51:32 AM | One of my all-time favorites is Breakfast of Champions, by the late Kurt Vonnegut jr. One of the most amazing
& brilliant books, ever! I first read it in 1979, when I was 18; I've probably read it over 250 times by now. He
was clever, funny, brutally honest & very insightful.
Another favorite of mine, is "the life of Budha", I can't remember who wrote it, my copy is already packed somewhere.
My mother bought me the bilingual (Japanese/English edition), & it's absolutely beautiful. | |
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