I firmly believe that when we read a new book, it changes part of us or at the minimum, allows us to see the world from a different perspective. The following books are my personal favorites and one’s that have helped form me as an individual and challenge me to continue to grow and expand [...]
Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category
Books to Change Lives- My Ten Personal Favorites- September 23, 2009
Posted in Literature, Spiritual, tagged East of Eden, Emergent, Literature, Progressive Christianity, Spirituality, The Shack on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Then We Shall Understand. And All Shall Understand- June 10, 2009
Posted in Literature, Spiritual on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever read a book and just had a chill go down your spine…in a good way. I was reading the book Crime and Punishment and one part struck me in a very strong way. The main character, Raskolnikov, is talking to an alcoholic he met in the tavern while trying to drink away [...]
Addicted to Worry- April 3, 2009
Posted in Literature, Psychology, Spiritual on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday while I was flying back to the States, I read a book called Beautiful Boy. It is a father’s memoir on his son’s horrible addiction to meth. It is quite a sobering read. However, much of the perspective deals with another type of addiction, the father’s addiction to worry about his son’s addiction. I [...]
Why Our Pursuits of Happiness Are Destroying Us- February 23, 2009
Posted in Literature, Movies, Psychology, Spiritual on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When we make objectives, people, dreams, or things are happiness, we will be miserable. When we realize these things will never satisfy, we start realizing there is something much deeper than our mere day to day living, deeper than the good and bad in our daily lives. Only when we begin to realize this will we experience real joy.
A Thought on the World to Come- June 27, 2008
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The second thing that comes to my mind was that this suffering cannot be it. This much suffering shows us what the opposite of the world should be. Life wasn’t supposed to be one continuous pattern of heartache and pain.
