Recommended by a friend who was looking to start up or flame his fire inside some. What a story! What is YOUR Everest? I knew right away what mine has been and what it is today. And it breaks my heart. The author of this book drug a sled across the whole of Antarctica…

Great book for anyone, especially the average Joe/Jill, but also investors like myself to help see the bigger picture. My time horizons are typically…

…cause that’s what I’ve been doing this week and last. This is so good. I went through about a year ago but have…

Round 3 of Proust. I am reminded of Rilke, “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” The next is Sodom and Gomorrah…

Immediate changes occured in me and my daily activities as a result of having listened to this once and I plan to use and incorporate more now and for a long time…

No one is immune. The most experienced builder, surgeon, stock trader still forgets or overlooks something that in retrospect…

Do you ever find that you are always waking either a little bit more or that you are just now beginning to come awake after not having realized you’d fallen asleep again?…

David’s poetry and interpretations of poetry and life are medicine for the mind and the soul. His voice is…

Eckhart is one of the greatest spiritual masters I have read in my life. I read his sermons out loud to…

Each of these is so widly different. I’m in the third volume at present and it is my least favorite thus far. I am totally floored with Proust’s brilliance…

I’ll be reading Proust a long, long time now. In Search of Lost Time (of which this is the first volume) has seven volumes, all of which are long and every sentence (almost) complex. No one writes, has ever written like this imo…

Me! Outlive my other/old self anyway. This book is full of wisdom and motiviation for living healthier lives. I continue to share it with others…

We are here because of fungi and could not live without it and still know so very little.

There’s nothing else to say for me. If this is what you’re looking for, why not!? The dirty jobs guy will take you through his own experiences as well as stories he’s heard from others and that are well documented. You often don’t know who or where or even when is the subject of each story until the very end. That part is also fun. You’re thinking, Germany, and you come to find out that it was really Korea. Or Marilyn Monroe, and you were right! That kind of thing.

John Wineland is one of the greatest teachers of my life on taoist energy principles in the context of intimacy and romantic relationship between the masculine and feminine. He doesn’t know it because I’ve just subscribed to his material and followed over time but I’ve used it and it’s been fantastic. Actually I’m certain it is this work which brought my current partner and her beautiful now 11 year old daughter to me (3.5 years together now). My partner purchased this for me…

What a straightforward (as it gets) ancient text on Chinese philosophy and appreciated commentary by Jung comparing the East to the West with guidance of how to approach the East as a Westerner and explanation for what exactly is the Golden Flower, the Christ, the image of psyche as singularity. The breadth of life within the microcosmic orbit (although not called as such here) from Mantak Chia does, I think, originate here (though…

I don’t usually like Kevin Hart’s material. It’s always funny until it’s not. Growing up with him, I remember all of the early work he talks about in the book that didn’t quite “make it” big. Like Paper Soldiers. Like The Big House. I don’t think I ever liked his comedy either. In some later things, like Jumanji. But this book (narrated by Kevin Hart) is not only hilarious but very…

Two great icons speaking together about their own inner landscapes and orientations of the heart through difficult times. I’ll not say much here except that I’m happy to add this one to my “read” audio library.

This would have been much better to go through in print, holding it in my hands. I find I cannot listen to many good books. Then I do not get a chance to really be with them. Wendell explores richly how our present thought and forgetfullness about our past has come to be. He helped me take a good look through two different conversatons/realtionships in time at our racism, shared sufferings, and incredibly complex present day efforts with both successes and failures at meeting our own ideal of culture, equality, freedom, and self-respect.

Tantra is usually associated with sex or sexual positions or some kind of cult sex ritual. But that is not even close. The principles of Tantra are taught in various other times though history and in places which had little to no contact with each other: that I am the whole and not just a part thereof. The wave on the ocean goes back to the ocean and yet what could the ocean be without the wave? They’re inseperable. In that spirit, I am the wave and I am the ocean…