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Which book has had the most impact on you?
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I would say The Wizard of Oz and the Return to Oz but it's a hard call because I also enjoy Aesop's Fables.
The impact on my life is the beauty of imagination.
The impact on my life is the beauty of imagination.
Earthling
David Henson
Frank Herbert's Dune, and if I had to choose which of the series I would choose God Emperor Of Dune. Why? They, and especially it, has such an amazingly articulate view, or expression even I would call it, of mankind in a religious, spiritual, political, historical, scientific, linguistic and even agricultural and pharmaceutical context that's just mesmerizing to me.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Digha Nikaya ( long discourses of the buddha) the teaching in Theravada buddhism
Salvador
RF's Swedenborgian
The Kama Sutra. Before reading and looking at this book, I was just familiar with a few basic positions. After reading this, as well as looking at this book's pictures; I mastered multiple positions with my wife. The Kama Sutra revitalized our sex lives together and saved our marriage from getting repetitively boring. ...
Jumi
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Some book by Feynman I can't recall name of that pushed my interests towards natural sciences at a time... though I didn't go completely towards them it gave a new appreciation for life. Isaac Asimov was influential also.
Later life got lot easier when I read the Tao T'eh Ching. It was no wonder the book is sometimes said to be the second most translated book ever after the Bible. I think there are tens of translations in English and the same is true for many languages. I think there are multiple in my language too...
Later life got lot easier when I read the Tao T'eh Ching. It was no wonder the book is sometimes said to be the second most translated book ever after the Bible. I think there are tens of translations in English and the same is true for many languages. I think there are multiple in my language too...
The Bible was influential in the community around me, but hardly significant to me directly. If anything, it is a distraction from more relevant texts.
From the books that actually influenced me in a lasting way, I suppose the most significant is Ken Wilber "Integral Psychology". His handling and exposition of Spiral Dynamics and his use of the Holon concept are simple yet very insightful.
From the books that actually influenced me in a lasting way, I suppose the most significant is Ken Wilber "Integral Psychology". His handling and exposition of Spiral Dynamics and his use of the Holon concept are simple yet very insightful.
Tough question, because with me there is a list, but nonetheless , , ,
Seven Valleys and Four Valleys by Baha'u'llah
Seven Valleys and Four Valleys by Baha'u'llah
As the (ex) proud owner of a library of over 4000 books, there are many that have impacted my life... Being unable to see words until age 14 reading came as an epiphany.
The first book i ever read was "interesting times" by Terry Pratchett and since then anything by the late, great Terry Pratchett is dear to my heart.
Also Iain M Banks (and to a lesser extent Iain Banks) books. I just love "excession" and "the crow road"
The first book i ever read was "interesting times" by Terry Pratchett and since then anything by the late, great Terry Pratchett is dear to my heart.
Also Iain M Banks (and to a lesser extent Iain Banks) books. I just love "excession" and "the crow road"
The Kama Sutra. Before reading and looking at this book, I was just familiar with a few basic positions. After reading this, as well as looking at this book's pictures; I mastered multiple positions with my wife. The Kama Sutra revitalized our sex lives together and saved our marriage from getting repetitively boring. ...
How do you manage the impossible ones? Well hubby and i find them impossible
I also have a list but overall I have no doubt the Kitab-i-iqan (Book of Certitude) had a profound meaning for me.
Regards Tony
Regards Tony
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
"The Naked Ape" by Desmond Morris, as it helped to solidify my understanding and appreciation for the ToE. I originally came from a fundamentalist Protestant church that taught that evolution was counter to the teaching in Bible, but it wasn't until a bit later and when I had enough of a theological understanding to realize that I had been sold a "bill of goods" that I left that church.
Dr. Raymond Moody's first book on Near Death Experiences.
The veridical accounts blew me away and started to flip my paradigm.