Which book has had the biggest impact on your life?

[knowmad]

The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.

It is hidden but always present.
I don't know who gave birth to it. It is older than God.

Tao Te Ching written by Lao-tzu,
Translation by Stephen Mitchell

 

[momofthegoons]

The "I Ching"

All of Edgar Cayce's books, but specifically, "The Psychic Sense" and "No Soul Left Behind"

 

[Tweek]

This:

 

[knowmad]

The "I Ching"

any specific translation?

 

[Enchantre]

Positive or negative?

... my answer, which is positive, is the entire LOTR + Silmarillion. Followed very closely by the entire literary (fiction) output of Isaac Asimov. That isn't to say is scientific writings weren't excellent (they really are), but I didn't find them impactful.

 

[Tweek]

Does it have to be just one? I read alot...these were life changing for me when I was in high school:

and tons more...hard to pick just one. Each book was read at a different part of my life and influenced me in a large way.

 

[momofthegoons]

any specific translation?

The one that I used was the Wilhelm-Baynes Translation.

 

[YeeeBuddy]

I cant say any book has really changed my life but George Orwell's 1984 is one of my favorites and really made me think.

 

[natural farmer]

"The one straw revolution" by Masanobu Fukuoka

and

"The 80/10/10 diet" by Douglas Graham

 

[TechnicalToker]

Great Expectations. Wasn't all I had hoped for.

 

[fluffhead]

 

[RUDE BOY]

Ram Dass's "BE HERE NOW"

It help start me on the varied and bizarre spiritual journey that is my life.

 

[Nooky72]

This helped me pack the cigarettes in. Read the book and stopped.

 

[Nooky72]

This was a good read too.

 

[Seren]

Great Expectations. Wasn't all I had hoped for.

that made me giggle!

I'm with @Tweek on this - it's too difficult to name just one!

So, to name just a few of many (which haven't already been mentioned):

 

[TechnicalToker]

I don't have the attention span to read anything more involved than a magazine

But usually its the more intelligent that get subtle humor

 

[EveryDayAmnesiac]

 

[420GanjX]

Slaughter-House 5, & 1984

 

[knowmad]

Ram Dass's "BE HERE NOW"

It help start me on the varied and bizarre spiritual journey that is my life.

'Be Here Now' blew my hair back.

 

[knowmad]

If you cannot be present even in normal circumstances, such as when you are sitting
alone in a room, walking in the woods, or listening to someone, then you certainly won't be able to stay conscious when something "goes wrong" or you are faced with difficult people or situations, with loss or the threat of loss. You will be taken over by a reaction, which ultimately is always some form of fear, and pulled into deep unconsciousness. Those challenges are your tests. Only the way in which you deal with them will show you and others where you are at as far as your state of consciousness is concerned, not how long you can sit with your eyes closed or what visions you see.

Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle

 

[Vicki]

A short story by John Steinbeck, "The Pearl." It taught me that the world is a shitty place, and it will let you die if you don't have enough money.

 

[knowmad]

A short story by John Steinbeck, "The Pearl." It taught me that the world is a shitty place, and it will let you die if you don't have enough money.

That sounds horrible.

 

[Vicki]

That sounds horrible.

It had the biggest impact. Didn't say it was a good impact, but it was right on, that's for sure.

 

[knowmad]

It had the biggest impact. Didn't say it was a good impact, but it was right on, that's for sure.

keep readin', sister.

 

[Vicki]

keep readin', sister.

I've read plenty.