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Michel de Montaigne, writing after the death of a close friend, said that the best therapy was the companionship of books. Plato too said that the arts could bring the soul circuit back into balance after a severe dislocation. And George Eliot, who used readings of Dante to get over the death of her husband, said that: ‘Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.’
Above and beyond the (too?) many unread volumes I already have, there are many other books that I'd still like to read, given sufficient life and leisure, including the following:
- A New Earth (Eckhart Tolle) http://www.amazon.com/New-Earth-Awakening-Lifes-Purpose/dp/0525948023
- Prophet - the Hatmaker's Son. http://www.eastbeach.org/books.cfm
- Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest
- Bliss (Peter Carey) http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/bliss-peter-carey/296464/
- A Theory of Everything http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0717131637/ref=ase_oliviermythod-21/026-2438459-1700414
- A New Earth http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0525948023/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/002-2473502-7134432?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
- The Road Less Travelled http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/0/C924447481F7DD69802567CB003FB724/
- A World Waiting to Be Born - Search for Civility http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099328216/gurteenassociate/202-6562016-3299800
- The Dandelions of Woodlawn Avenue : "A woman's search for meaning and purpose in life" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595360920/gurteen/104-3100969-7240753
- Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/184354265X/ref=pd_sim_b_dp_1/026-8201402-2294850#product-details
- Lost Languages http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071357432/104-2349256-5730308
- The Spiral Staircase - Karen Armstrong's autobiography http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007122284/qid=1080666712/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/202-8379260-8939000
- The New Apocrypha http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0246107154/gatesofdeliriumaA/104-2349256-5730308
- Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553380648/104-5917057-2063904?v=glance
- The Holy Grail - Imagination and Belief http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1157892,00.html
- In the Name of the Gods http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953993000/026-7675952-9259626
- The Paradise Co-ordinates http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0954188101/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2_cp/026-7675952-9259626
- Inventing God (Nicholas Mosley) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1564782913/qid=1041864821/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-4364293-1387150=glance&s=books&n=507846
- Awareness (Anthony de Mello) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385249373/ref=ase_gurteen/002-8937461-8003227
- What I Loved (Siri Hustvedt) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805071709/qid=1044618942/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8794242-1907921?v=glance&s=books
- The Time of Our Singing (Richard Powers) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374277826/qid%3D1044621528/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-8794242-1907921
- The Life and Death of Planet Earth - How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World (Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee) http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10291
- How to Read Egyptian http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0714119105/ref=ase_thedailygrail0c/026-1628575-5782006
- Albion (Peter Ackroyd) http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1856197212/qid=1045499396/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_3_2/026-1628575-5782006
- Ubiquity (Mark Buchanan) http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0753812975/qid=1045499621/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_3_2/026-1628575-5782006
- The Dying God: The Hidden History of Western Civilization (by David Livingstone)http://www.thedyinggod.com/
- Rhapsody for a Unicorn (Oscar Cappelli) http://www.rhapsodyforaunicorn.com/en/readfree.asp
- Creation (Gore Vidal) http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0349104751/qid=1129110952/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/202-1372358-6933466
- The People of Providence http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0907871577/qid=1142354842/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/102-8036452-8023354?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
- Imperfectly Natural Woman (Janey Lee Grace) http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/1904424899/reviews/026-3853726-0439643
- Smile of a Ghost
Please see below recent climate-related change, including key developments regarding the UN Sustainable Development Goal 13 - Climate Action.
Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading - Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard
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