Just finished reading this marvelous book and I wonder why I never got on my hands on it before. It definitely belongs in my top ten reads of all times.
The book resonated with me thoroughly. Lots of abstractions and vague notions that keep flitting through my head found such crisp expression in this book, I was completely vowed. The way Siddhartha refuses to accept teachers, the notion of experiencing the material world first before realizing the essence of spirituality, and the final stages where he insinuates the futility of words and thoughts (intellect) which just act as a barrier to enlightenment and spirituality are somethings I have always felt deep down.
Fascinating that Herman Hesse, a german, captures the Indian philosophy so well and expresses it so clearly.
On to The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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I felt the same way when I read this one. So what else is on your list of books to read?
-r
The list goes like:
1. The Unbearable lightness og being
2. Wild: An Elemental Journey
3. The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank
4. Tipping point
Though I am not good at following lists :(, just end up picking something on a whim and go with it ..
yr list?
So you are finally back to blogging :)
- AA
These are all i have for now apart from the tipping point which is already on your list.
Blink
Gladwell's blog is pretty good too
In code
--r
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