This is reading list from December 2009...As of now I have completed few books on this list..Few of the books require revisiting,as they are eternal chests of wisdom.
Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
(Could see the humility of Franklin..Reminds me of reading Dalai lama Books..Pure Humility(if there exists such an emotion/belief)
(Joseph Campbell )The power of myth
(St Augustine) Confessions
Walden(Henry David Throeau)
Self Relaince(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
(William James )The Varieties of Religious Experience
(J Krishnamurti )Think On These Things (1964)
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life - (Julia Cameron)
(Carl Gustav Jung) Memories, Dreams and Interpretations
(Boethius )The Consolation of Philosophy (6th century)
(Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1991)
The idea of Justice (By Amartya Sen)
Will continue in the next part....
4 comments:
A confession: By tolstoy
http://books.google.ca/books?id=Vyg27UEk7e8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+confession+tolstoy&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
I have never understood Tolstoy and some other philosophers in their later stage of life. They do make some sense but I know that it is not going to help the totality. May be they are less problematic people but it is another corner of life that everyone need to consider about once even if they do not agree with it. It cannot help us today but why do such men who were so energetic is their past at last show such a mark of humility in the end?
-Arvind
yet another example of humility...albert einstein
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay.htm
-A
which dalai lama?
dalai lama 14, the nobel laurelate? I am hearing mixed reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsUqLRXtaJE
-A
At some point it may help to drop reading books for spiritual truth, or following what the other fellow has said.
True answers can also be found within, if the inner ground has been prepared. It doesn't take much more than purity, yearning, and a little time...
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