From the Library
If a book sheds light into a person’s soul, here is my window . . . the below list is what I have read/am reading.
The Spiritual Life by: Evelyn Underhill, 1937
“We are creatures of sense and of spirit, and must live an amphibious life . . . Most of our difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing them as parts of one whole.”
Concerning the Inner Life by: Evelyn Underhill, 1926
“Sometimes we are in such a hurry to transmit that we forget our primary duty is recieve: and that God’s self-imparting through us will be in direct proportion to our adoring love and humble receptiveness.”
Outliers by: Malcolm Gladwell, 2008
Branding Only Works on Cattle by: Jonathan Salem Baskin
“There’s an ugly secret the experts don’t want you to know: Consumers aren’t paying attention anymore, and they don’t believe or remember stuff anyway. So the traditional expectations of image and awareness are no longer valid.”
The Mediaeval Mystics of England edited by: Eric Colledge, 1961
St. Aelerd of Rievaulx, St. Edmund Rich, Richard Rolle, the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, etc.
Blink by: Malcolm Gladwell, 2005
“Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology . . . Blink changes the way you understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.”
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle, 1962
Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 1814 and 1817 respectively
Me and Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter, 2007
Magazine Publishing by Sammye Johnson and Patricia Prijatel
“Magazines do not try to be all things to all people. Magazine editors target a precise niche – a narrowly defined focus – and study the characteristics of the individuals in that niche.”
Essays of E.B. White
“Anything written by E. B. White must be cherished by writers and readers.”
and from my favorite chapter: Good-bye to 48th Street, “For some weeks now I have been engaged in dispersing the contents of this apartment, trying to persuade hundreds of inanimate objects to scatter and leave me alone. It is not a simple matter. I am impressed by the reluctance of one’s worldly goods to go out again into the world. During September I kept hoping that some morning, as by magic, all books, pictures, records, chairs, beds, curtains, lamps, china, glass, utensils, keepsakes would drain away from around my feet, like the outgoing tie, leaving me standing silent on a bare beach. But this did not happen.”
Your Attention Please, How to Appeal to Today’s Distracted, Disinterested, Disengaged, Disenchanted and Busy Audiences by: Paul Brown and Alison Davis
The Power of Unreasonable People, How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World by: John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan
The Practice of the Presence of God, Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence
“Yet I cannot bear that this should be called delusion; because the soul which thus enjoys God desires herein nothing but Him.”
Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Here is a funny story instead of a quote. When I went into the book store to get this book the first time (yes it took more than once) I gave the information desk what I thought was the name – I was wrong, so obviously we couldn’t find it. So when I went back to my little note I realized what the real title was and stepped back into the bookstore – same bookstore, different branch. I gave the correct title of the book, but instead of giving the author I gave the name of a character, which doesn’t really help the automated system. The info desk clerk was quite resourceful and took my limited, albeit wrong, information and discovered that I had given credit to a fictional character instead of the Pulitzer Prize winning author and got me on the right track. It was all worth it. I think I will read this book several times. I love the depth, the truth, the story, the way significance is displayed in everyday details. It truly is brilliant.
The Shadow of the Sun by: Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated from Polish by Klara Glowczewska, 1998/2001
“This enthusiasim of his is universal here. Enthusiasn, and pride that Ghana stands at the head of the independence movement, sets an example, leads all of Africa.”
“In a small, shabby room, with a strange mix of odors, overly ripe mango and printer’s ink, I was greeted effusively by a cheerful, corpulent man, Kwesi Amu. ‘I am also a reporter!’ he exclaimed by means of introduction, and as though he had been waiting for this visit for who knows how long . . . It is essential to exhibit from the very beginning, from the very first second, enormous, primal joy and geniality . . . “
The Tipping Point; How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell, 2002
“The Tipping Point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.”
This Is a Soul; The Mission Rick Hodes by: Marilyn Berger
“Dr. Rick Hodes arrived in Africa more than two decades ago to help the victims of a famine, but he never expected to call this extremely poor continent his home. Twenty-eight years later, he is still there. This Is a Soul tells the remarkable story of Rick Hodes’s journey from suburban America to Mother Teresa’s clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.”
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Grant Writing, Second Edition by: Waddy Thomspson
Eat, Pray, Love by: Elizabeth Gilbert
Reading Lolita in Tehran by: Azar Nafisi
The Kite Runner by: Khalid Hosseini
Longitudes and Attitudes, Exploring the World Before and After September 11th by: Thomas Friedman
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