Your 'go to' books
What's your 'go to' book?
I have a few...
For deep thinking it's 'The Yogi and the Commissar' by Arthur Koestler (hint apprentices, there's a lesson in my chambers set from this book!)
For daily advice, it's 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius, or 'Quaker Faith and Practice' from the British Quakers.
But for an enjoyable read it's 'The Redemption of Althalus' by David and Leigh Eddings, a great fantasy novel that sparked the interest I have in writing fantasy.
I'd like to hear about yours.
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I also have the STAR WARS Secrets of the galaxy book set if I am not feeling Marcus.
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Two of many is James Allen’s “As a man thinketh” and “Freedom from the known” by Jiddu K. Great re-starting points for me. Good returns too. I’m at a different location so when I get back to my place, I will post more books!
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The Art of Communication by Thich Nhat Hahn
The Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
I and Thou by Martin Buber
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And
Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Kuhn
On a more fun note Calvin and Hobbes
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Apprentices: Vandrar
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes" - Wittgenstein
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Otherwise, if it is some desire to hold old slivers of mulch, then I have a couple of William Gibson cyberpunk scifi's next to my bed.
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Cathy Glass: Foster carer who writes about the children she has fostered over the past 25 years (a lot of learning from these books as far as how to deal with difficult situations and human condition)
Piers Anthony - especially the Incarnations of Immortality series (interesting theories about gods and deity)
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House of Orion
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Life is a sum of all your choices; So, what are you doing today?
― Albert Camus
if it's -weird- to want a more peaceful world, dance around in circles just because, act like a kid when you're in your 50's, stick up for groups of people being harassed, and being stubborn against people trying to change me in order to be more acceptable to them ... then I wear my weirdness with pride. ~ Me

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dwagoonie wrote: okay, that was ... (breaths in the positive, breaths out the negative) ... I dislike hitting submit and it doesn't post because my time expired.
Cathy Glass: Foster carer who writes about the children she has fostered over the past 25 years (a lot of learning from these books as far as how to deal with difficult situations and human condition)
Piers Anthony - especially the Incarnations of Immortality series (interesting theories about gods and deity)
Yes, it happens to all of us I think. A good habit is to copy your text before you press submit. Then if it happens you can just refresh (check it didn't go through) and paste it instead of trying to remember and rewrite! I've had to adopt that recently as a rule here

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Gotta love that Murphy.
Go To Book:
Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. There is a lot of wisdom in his poetry.
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Journals:
. IP . Apprentice . Personal . Healing . Degree . Seminary
House of Orion
TM : Zero
Life is a sum of all your choices; So, what are you doing today?
― Albert Camus
if it's -weird- to want a more peaceful world, dance around in circles just because, act like a kid when you're in your 50's, stick up for groups of people being harassed, and being stubborn against people trying to change me in order to be more acceptable to them ... then I wear my weirdness with pride. ~ Me

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For furthering my technical knowledge I enjoy reading really anything published by no starch publications, right now I am reading their book on Penetration Testing, and plan to move into Cryptography soon!
For personal pleasure it's gotta be anything by Christopher Moore (Lamb specifically), the Pendragon series, or any of the Star Wars novels. All of these are just fun to read and are super easy to get lost in.
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