Eternal Unity

One Book That Changed Your Life

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One book? Shittttt.

Way of the Peaceful Warrior showed me a completely new way of living and started my 'spiritual journey' (oh gag). 

The Mastery of Love taught me what real love looks like. 

The Voice of Knowledge taught me about how imcomplete conceptual knowing is.

The Way of Liberation simplified my meditation and enlightenment practices and opened a space for more being.

 

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Tolle's The Power of Now is exceptional; who cares what book list it is on? Simple truth is spring water, and is best for the soul.

For myself, I can't choose just one. That said, I love the Bhagavad Gita. Nothing has moved me more.


Just because God loves you doesn't mean it is going to shape the cosmos to suit you. God loves you so much that it will shape you to suit the cosmos.

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16 hours ago, Space said:

@Eternal Unity Probably the Book of Not Knowing - Peter Ralston

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"I believe you are more afraid of condemning me to the stake than for me to receive your cruel and disproportionate punishment."

- Giordano Bruno, Campo de' Fiori, Rome, Italy. February 17th, 1600.

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The Complete Teachings of Ajahn Chah

For those who like a little buddhism, this one is freely available as a pdf on the internet. Ajahn Chah was a Thai Buddhist monk who was said by many to be enlightened, some of his favourite teachings concerned how one should learn about one’s own heart instead of the sutra’s, and how life was about letting go and then more letting go. 


“Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.” - Terence McKenna

 

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20 hours ago, Etherial Cat said:

Seriously, it's like refusing to put our contemporary Buddha/Jesus on the list.

I'm not getting it. :D

We should create a club with the sole purpose to corrupt Leo so he adds the book to the book list.

One World,

One Eckhart !

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God is love

Whoever lives in love lives in God

And God in them

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Yet another vote for The Power of Now. 

 


My Youtube Channel- Light on Earth “We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”― Robert Frost

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Damn maybe I need revisit The Power of Now. I'll be honest, I didn't think much of it when I first read it. 


"Find what you love and let it kill you." - Charles Bukowski

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Autobiography of a yogi

But I so resonate with Ramana Maharshi too and I love the book Talks with Ramana Maharshi.

The Power of Now is also on my book list to start reading next.

actually I've read a few pages of it and love it so far!

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Leo planned on making a book "that will change the world". Maybe an equivalent to the Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle?

 

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2 minutes ago, SolarWarden said:

Leo planned on making a book "that will change the world". Maybe an equivalent to the Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle?

 

 

It's probably gonna be about epistemology, and how the current scientific model which governs how we think is misguided and partial.

If I wanted to bet my left nut, that's what I'll bet.

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God is love

Whoever lives in love lives in God

And God in them

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@Shin The fate of your left nut lies in Leo Guras hands. Let us pray for a book about epistemology will see the light of the day. xD

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42 minutes ago, Shin said:

It's probably gonna be about epistemology,

I can see it now, all black, with ominous large white letters: "KNOWING" "Leo" "Gura".


57% paranoid

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12 minutes ago, LastThursday said:

I can see it now, all black, with ominous large white letters: "KNOWING" "Leo" "Gura".

And he will say at the second chapter that he is done now, check the website.

Then there will be 23 other chapters xD


God is love

Whoever lives in love lives in God

And God in them

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If I hadn't read this book, I would probably still feel depressed on a regular basis.

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It's beautifully written, and it gives a very accurate description of how it's like to be depressed or maniac.

She's a Psychiatry Professor at John Hopkins, and she suffers from bipolar. It took her 10 fucking years to accept that she needed medication.

 

Main points:

• Even a specialist in this area still struggles to accept psychiatric treatment.

• I used to think that all medication was garbage. But actually there are cases of success. She's a living example.

• She shares her experience with the world by writing this book, which has been a turning point for many people.


one day this will all be memories

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I really enjoyed The Book of Not Knowing.  I don't know how much it impacted me though. 

I read Byron Katie's The Work and have used that method quite a bit.  

Hard to say really. 

I really liked "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl.  

The Science of Success was decent.  


"Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"   --   Marry Poppins

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