Tag Archives: religion

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

Posted on May 4, 2009 by smellincoffee

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao© 2007 Wayne Dyer416 pages In continuing my philosophical and comparative religion studies, I’m reading another book on the Tao Te Ching. While The Guiding Light of Lao Tzu … Continue reading →

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The Guiding Light of Lao Tzu

Posted on April 20, 2009 by smellincoffee

The Guiding Light of Lao Tzu : A New Translation and Commentary on the Tao Teh Ching © 1982 Henry Wei234 pages In the interests of cultural literacy, I’ve been trying to get a handle on major religions I have … Continue reading →

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Mere Christianity

Posted on March 17, 2009 by smellincoffee

Mere Christianity© 1952 C.S. Lewis191 pages This is a little book I have heard an awful lot about. While friends and readers may know of my interest in philosophy, few know that it stems from a period back in late … Continue reading →

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Here If You Need Me

Posted on March 16, 2009 by smellincoffee

Here If You Need Me: A True Story© 2001 Kate Braestrup211 pages Here If You Need Me is the story of Kate Braestrup, a Unitarian Universalist minister and game warden chaplain who went into that service after the death of … Continue reading →

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An Open Heart

Posted on March 16, 2009 by smellincoffee

An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life© 2001 the XIV Dalai Lama191 pages Because I enjoyed The Art of Happiness so much, I decided to continue reading the Dalai Lama’s thoughts. An Open Heart is considerably more short than … Continue reading →

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Desire of the Everlasting Hills

Posted on March 4, 2009 by smellincoffee

Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus© 1999 Thomas Cahill I’ve never expected to read the words “his silly circumcised penis swelling for all to see” in connected with Jesus Christ, but I have now, after … Continue reading →

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Ten Things

Posted on February 27, 2009 by smellincoffee

Ten Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You (But Can’t Because He Needs the Job!)© Rev. Oliver “Buzz” Thomas, 2007108 pages.I do not subscribe to the Christian faith, but I’ve heard of this book through one podcast or another and … Continue reading →

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The Gifts of the Jews

Posted on February 25, 2009 by smellincoffee

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everybody Thinks and Feels© Thomas Cahill293 pages This week I continued in Thomas Cahill’s Hinges of History series with The Gifts of the Jews. Rather than … Continue reading →

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What the Buddha Taught

Posted on February 23, 2009 by smellincoffee

What the Buddha Taught© 1974 Walpola Rahula I’m a member of a philosophy group on YahooGroups, and this book came up in discussion. Since my knowledge of Buddhism is quite limited, I decided to indulge in a little literacy-expanding this … Continue reading →

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The Book of Ecclesiastes

Posted on February 6, 2009 by smellincoffee

The Book of Ecclesiastes.© 1998 Tremper Longman III284 pages, plus indices Man’s fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no … Continue reading →

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