Tuesday, July 5, 2011

[Mind's Eye] Re: Book Reccomendations

This is deep, and profound; i struggle with the "forgiveness" concept
myself; which, i guess, is one of the reasons why the Bible is life
affirming inspiration.

Are you trying to recommend faith through contrarian logic? You're
doing a good job :)

On Jul 5, 4:39 pm, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Bible may be liked because it promises forgiveness/eternal life,
> etc. And a large part of human misery is that it is very difficult to
> forgive oneself or others. There was an article in the NYTimes about
> "survivor guilt" of the soldiers- often leading to suicide- but oddly,
> my meditation book (for co-dependants- as we all are) had the same
> theme and title. The "meaning of life" can be hamstrung by the past
> and relationships.
>
> On Jul 5, 3:59 am, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > In my humble and very limited opinion MM, no single book encapsulates
> > the search for the "meaning of life" quite like The Holy Bible does.
>
> > On Jul 2, 6:58 pm, Meandering Mind <DirricVi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Anyone have any book/article recommendations on what has influenced their
> > > meaning of life regardless of whether or not that you found a meaning.  I
> > > really don't have very much of a history of reading around this topic and
> > > want to get started somewhere.  Sometimes it feels like my thoughts are too
> > > frantic and circular to get anywhere, so I need something to get off the
> > > same track that I travel.
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