Greetings All,
I realize that this topic is a little broader than the focus of this list,
but selfishly, I would love to tap the rich breadth and depth of humanity
here, so.I have a request for all of you Open Space readers out there who
have ever pondered what it means to be human. I'm wonder
Dear all,
Thanks for starting this thread, Karen.
One of my favorite bloggers and friend of Open Space Dave Pollard in his
latest post
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/08/27.html
writes of
the book Life is a Verb--
"Just do this, now. Go here, and buy a copy of Life is a Verb."
he then gi
Hello again, One & All,
Thank you so much to everyone who has responded to this question thus far-it
is such fun to open my inbox and have all of these gems waiting for me. I'm
grateful to all of you-and for those of you who have enquired, I'll
definitely make the list of books available to al
Karen,
Thanks much for starting this thread.
Lest we forget Angie Arrien's The Fourfold Way. It sat on my shelf for
several years after several failed attempts at reading it. And when I opened
it after dust collected, I found it to be a treasure. Very concise and
practical.
Also, Grigorii Oster
uresearch.net/> for action for global change
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Sella
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Greetings All,
I realize that this topic is a lit
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Michael Schwartz
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My number one was "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck which
started me on a new pathway in life.
Michael A. Schwa
I am deeply enjoying
Bring Me The Rhinoceros, by John Tarrant.
Jeff Aitken
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
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The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell.
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I am deeply enjoying
Bring Me The
Karen,
I truly believe that if you bring this question - a great question - with
full intention to any book it will illuminate a unique layer of our human
story and it becomes fascinating to sense this great web of perspective and
experience connect itself. I find myself wanting to say that intent
27/2008 02:04 PM
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track of everyone's suggestions for the coming year's reading list
- thank you!
--- On Wed, 8/27/08, Susan M Kerr wrote:
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> Wat
High on my list is "Crucial Conversations". The concepts of owning
one's own feelings, understanding my own stories, helped me evolve in
a number of areas, including in my marriage.
The "Peaceful Warrior" series of books by Dan Millman were pretty good
too.
...Doc
On Aug 27, 2008, at 10
ar's reading
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Hi dear Karen,
*Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World*, Kathleen Dean Moore
*The Spell of the Sensuous*, David Abram
*The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,* Jean-Dominique Bauby
*Coming to Life*, Polly Berrien Berends
*Pilgrim at Tinker Creek*, Annie Dillard
*All Sickness is Homesickness*, Dianne Co
For me the books that deeply impacted me and helped me change the course of my
life are:
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Illusions
One
All by Richard Bach.
Regards
Pankaj
Karen Sella wrote: Greetings All,
I realize that this topic is a little broader than the focus of this lis
mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Karen
Sella
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:21 PM
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Subject: books about being human?
Greetings All,
I realize that this topic is a little broader than the focus of this
list, but selfishly, I would love to tap the ri
wow this reminds me of opening year at Carnegie Mellon where engineering
students had to take 'human factors' we were like why do they have to do
this? We were more like Humanities and social science majors.
OK
About being human, books,
Margaret Swedish "Living Beyond the end of the world" This
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The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
Three Classics -- 2 Western, 2 Eastern:
On Being Human, Ashley Montague
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj
At 11:20 AM 8/27/2008, you wrote:
Greetings All,
I realize that this topic is a little broader
than th
The Tao te ching by lao tzu ( i like Stephen Mitchell's translation these
days) is like an owner's manual for this life, at least in my experience.
It's very simple, very profound, full of theory, poetry and practices and
surprises, even after many years of reading and befriending it.
Chris
On
Karen,
This is a fantastic question. I hope you share the compiled list with
all us.
The book that helped me understand something about myself and others
is Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore.
Rose-May
...
Rose-May Guignard
Assistant Professor
School of Urban & Public Affairs
Arlington, TX &
Wow, it is fun to learn what some folks are reading, what books have been
particularly meaningful to them. And it is fun to think about books that
have been important to me.
If I have to pick just one book -- praise goddess that I don't have to
choose only one -- that influenced my thinking about
Thank You for asking, Karen :)
Nineteen Eighty Four By George Orwell
Freedom in Exile The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet
Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne
with best regards,
Arno
Karen Sella wrote:
Greetings All,
I realize that this topic is a little broader than the focus of thi
"Le Petit Prince" from Saint-Exupery
Henri
On n'entend bien qu'avec le coeur
L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux
On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Tree Fitzpatrick wrote:
Wow, it is fun to learn what some folks are reading, what books have
been particularly meaningful to the
Greetings! Some of my milestones are:
Alice Miller, Polish-born Swiss psychologist. In my twenties I
read several of her books, for example The Drama of the Gifted
Child and Thou Shalt Not Be Aware. That helped me a lot
to understand - and forgive - and gave me reason and strength to BE and
to
Two books finally popped to mind to add to this luscious list that is
forming:
Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice. It helped me understand that
men and women really do approach the world in very different and
complementary ways.
Aldous Huxley's positive utopia, Island. Two of my favo
My most important books are many and hard to choose between but here
we goBeloved
by Toni Morrison for the most exquisite language and deepest exploration of
grief
Tree of Knowledge by Huberto Maturana because he gave me the language to
describe the world as I experienced it
Eternal Echoes by John
Karen and Everyone,
What a wonderful request, Karen! I think I'm in heaven with all these book
suggestions. Now if I could only quit my day job and read "full-time", I
might be able to stay there!
The comments are incredible as well and add so much. Could they be
captured as a sort of annotat
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Karen and Everyone,
What a wonderful request, Karen! I think I'm in heaven with all these book
suggestions. Now if I could only quit my
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