About Me
Sometimes we speak clumsily and create internal knots in others. Then we say, "I was just telling the truth." It may be the truth, but if our way of speaking causes unnecessary suffering, it is not Right Speech. The truth must be presented in ways that others can accept.
"The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching," by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; Canticle of the Sun by Francis of Assisi; The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh; The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks; Passage to Ararat by Michael J. Arlen; Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer; Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; La Nausée by Jean-Paul Sartre; Wishbringer by Craig Shaw Gardner; Zork: The Forces of Krill by S. Eric Meretzky; The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Reading Log:
2005:
Books I Finished in 2005:
Plain Living by Catherine Whitmire
Sleeping with Cats by Marge Piercy
A Quaker Book of Wisdom by Robert L. Smith
A Certain Kind of Perfection: An Anthology of Evangelical and Liberal Quaker Writers
The Wisdom of John Woolman
George Fox's Journals
Living Buddha, Living Christ
The Bible, KJV
The Qur'an, translation by Ahmed Ali
The Lost Tales, Part 1 by Tolkien
The Lost Tales, Part 2 By JRR
The Lays of Beleriand by JRR
The Shaping of the World by JRR
The Lost Road and Other Tales by JRR
The Silmarillion by JRR
The Hobbit by JRR
The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR
The Two Towers by JRR
The Return of the King by JRR
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Anne Monk
Dune by Frank Herbert
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
FRENCH Si C'etait Vrai by Marc Levy
