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Your Mind, and I think it is a brilliant
book everybody should
read.
The book discusses psychedelics. Psychedelics are a bit of a
cheat code in self-observation. I don’t recommend drugs for
anybody—you can do it all through pure meditation. If you
want to accelerate ahead, you know,
psychedelics are good for
that. [74]
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living by
Bruce Lee
Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy, and
Striking Thoughts is a good summary of some of his philosophy.
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
This book reads like a modern-day poetic religious tome. It’s
up there with the Bhagavad Gita, the
Tao Te Ching, the Bible,
and the Qur’an. It is written in the style where it has a feel of
religiosity and truth, but it was very approachable, beautiful,
nondenominational, and nonsectarian. I loved this book.
He has a gift for poetically describing what children are like,
what lovers are like, what marriage should be like, how you
should treat
your enemies and your friends, how you should
work with money, what can you think of every time you have
to kill something to eat it. I felt it, like the great religious books,
gave
a very deep, very philosophical, but very true answer to
how to approach the major problems in life. I recommend
The
Prophet to anybody, whether you’re religious or not. Whether
you are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, or atheist. I think it’s
a beau-
tiful book, and it’s worth reading. [7]
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SCIENCE FICTION
I started with comic books and sci-fi . Then I was into
history and news. Then into psychology, popular science,
technology.
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
I love Jorge Luis Borges, an Argen-
tine author.
His short story collection
Ficciones, or
Labyrinths, is amazing.
Borges is probably still the most pow-
erful author I have read who wasn’t just outright writing
philosophy. There was philosophy in there with the sci-fi. [1]
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