Enlightening Non-Fiction

Posted on November 14, 2007 
Filed Under What I'm Reading

The following is a list of various books — old and new — that we have found both informative and empowering.  Of course, this list is not exhaustive or comprehensive; it is simply a list of some of the books we have found that helped us along our way — and helped us see a bigger picture in which everyone has a place (as contrasted by the typical picture where a small group is "right," and everyone else is "wrong").  Please feel free to add to this list via email or comment…

If you read one of the books on this list, you’ll be changed.  If you read them all, the sky won’t even be a limit for you anymore!

 

There are obviously many valuable works that I either haven’t read, I didn’t enjoy or remember, or that simply didn’t come to mind yet; and I couldn’t possibly list all the books we’ve read, so I started with some of the more timely, relevant, or practical works I could think of.  The ancient texts are filled with great wisdom; but the average, modern mind can’t make full use of those works because of differences in time, social setting and climate, cultural changes, language changes and translations, and the common acceptance of metaphors that made sense in their own time, but have been taken in modern times as literal accounts, or translated into teachings that don’t bear the fruit they once did, etc…

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