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
BOOKS ON SHELF LIST:
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
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:
September 2009:
Books I'm Currently Reading:
Razor-Wire Dharma: A Buddhist Life in Prison, by Calvin Malone
Daughter of Elysium, by Joan Slonczewski
IN FRENCH: Babylon Babies, by Maurice G. Dantec
Books I Finished:
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Dhammapada (The Buddha's Path of Truth) (Kindle edition), by the Buddha
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, book club book
