This list isn’t about the most famous or the most exciting books. It’s a list of books that truly enlightened and inspired readers. These books are some of the greatest works that humanity ever produced, real masterpieces in other words. From stories to science to philosophy I tried to make this list as diverse as possible. – Analects by Confucius – Avesta – Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson by GI Gurdjieff – Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau – Common Sense by Thomas Paine – Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Corpus Aristotelicum by Aristotle – Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener – Dhammapada – Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei – Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri – Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes – Encyclopedia by Denis Diderot – First Folio by William Shakespeare – Elements by Euclid – Guide For The Perplexed by Maimonides – Harmony Of The World by Johannes Kepler – History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon – History Of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides – I Ching – Iliad and Odyssey by Homer – Interpretation Of Dreams by Sigmund Freud – Kabbalah – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes – Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius – Mind And Society by Vilfredo Pareto – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell – Novum Organum by Francis Bacon – Old Testament and New Testament – On Liberty by John Stuart Mill …
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OSHO: Life Is a Mystery to Be Lived
OSHO International Foundation — www.osho.com. Osho, a contemporary mystic has spoken on virtually every aspect of human consciousness. In these talks, the human mind is put under the microscope as never before, analyzed down to the smallest wrinkle. In this talk Osho responds to the following questions – Is it important to have some kind of attitude towards life? – In the past all famous artists have been well-known for their bohemian side of life. Please can you say something about creativity and discipline? – I have discovered that I am just bored with myself and I feel no juice. You have said to accept ourselves, whatever we are. I am not able to accept life — knowing that I am missing something of joy inside. What to do? – Can a madman become a Buddha? – I want to get lost utterly and ultimately into absolute love. What should I do? The best way to miss life is to have a certain attitude towards it. Attitudes originate in the mind, and life is beyond mind. Attitudes are our fabrications, our prejudices, our inventions. Life is not our fabrication; on the contrary, we are just ripples in the lake of life. Join the OSHO Talks Video Translation Project: www.oshotalks.info