Life-changing books only (II)

[@CaroleMora22]

This....“The work of life - to explore, and discover that which is not absolutely demanded by our short term survival, but for our long term survival.” is simply priceless advice. And, your reading recommendations overall are much appreciated invitations to this kind of engagement with the world of ideas.

[@marzanhossain5866]

Your lectures have been life changing for me since I found your channel. I have watched every single video multi[ple times. And I can tell that I have become a little better if not a lot in almost every aspect of a person. You have taught me a ton of things and made me think clearer. Never change anything about your channel and your lectures because I absolutely love it. Much respect for you. You are probably the best teacher I have ever had even though I didn't meet you in person. THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR.

[@mabaker]

It’s in his hair

[@harshamaharaj5215]

Books by Ellen Dissanayake 1) Homo aestheticus 2) What is Art For? 3)Art and Intimacy 4) Rene Girard - I See Satan Fall Like Lightning Simone weil 5) waiting for God 6) Gravity and Grace

[@fastpastgonebye]

If by chance tonight I lay by head to rest in great sadness, it is you that has opened my mind enough to know that tomorrow will be a great day to start living again in the present. Thank you!

[@YogaFlove]

I hated museums and thought therefore I hated art. Until I found art in everything. Thank you for being so sane and sharing it.

[@funkXCIV]

Thanks for everything, I was here since your first video, it appeared in my youtube feed before you had 100 subscribers. Glad to see your evolution, keep going!

[@acceptingtheuniverse]

Wow thank you for sticking around!

[@gxmfu]

YES A PART TWO! I've been looking forward to this especially since every book you provided last time were a gem.

[@FloraParrish]

Perfect timing! One of the things I love most about your content is that you're not one of those guys who just turn on a camera and give advice like those "TikTok trends" or without any basis. Everything you say you bring a reliable basis, everything comes from books rich in knowledge. Also, you don't impose a lifestyle, you suggest. I love the book recommendations and I was so excited to see female authors talking about topics I love and all the content you brought. Also I too was very skeptical about religion after having tried to go to several churches (I think about 5 this year) and left disappointed, but still feeling lost because I do believe in a spiritual world and a higher power, I'm sure the books you recommended will be of great use. What you do here, emphasizing how important reading and writing are in our lives, is very touching and useful. I'm a psychology undergraduate and yes, reading and writing really are very very important! Besides being therapeutic, they hold so much knowledge. Sorry for the long comment and, as always, great video!

[@acceptingtheuniverse]

No sorry! Thank you for your insight; much appreciated.

[@AvaIor]

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Simone Weil is the greatest literary find I've made this year and that says a lot, given that it is already December. I do not understand how I have never been told of her before. You are doing tremendous work here in including these lesser known authors.

[@maryamyousaf3302]

In a world of chaos it's so relaxing to see your channel, such a peace you radiate

[@HonestlyHolistic]

The first book has such a good point and I cannot BELIEVE that some people really think art isn't for them. I believe EVERYONE is creative, I believe creativity is at the core of humanity and without it we wouldn't have come as far as we did, we wouldn't be where we are today. Creativity is such a human experience and it truly makes life beautiful, the fact that we think so deeply about things and we want to share our perspective or ideas with others which leads to new creations and devices. Creativity helps us to solve complex problems and therefore thrive as a species

[@Cy4nSw4n]

That's what I was thinking!! Everyone has their own way of expressing their innerself. Like filmmaking, for example. 😏 There's a music video with Blutengel & Meinhard and it's one of my favorite things ever. Pure art And then there's poetry, fashion, dancing. The way someone decorates their space. Gardening. It's passion flowing out. Their soul materialized. It's all art

[@HonestlyHolistic]

@@Cy4nSw4n I agree so much!!! You get me :) How do you like to express yourself?

[@andreajoy224]

​@@Cy4nSw4n link for music video?.... intrigued! :)

[@Cy4nSw4n]

​@HonestlyHolistic Hmm that sounds like a trick question. Don't we all express ourselves in everything we do? Even if we're unaware of it? I'm probably being too abstract 😅 I looked at your profile and it seems you like to draw? I go through phases where I like to draw, too. Mine is nothing worth staring at but it's fun. My favorite artist is Josephine Wall, the way she works with colors is absolutely stunning

[@Cy4nSw4n]

​@andreajoy224 i hope this works. I'm on mobile kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIXMknaMaZxgmNksi=PJwbqrMqogV19b_O

[@imjustthatguy3308]

Ive been waiting for this part 2, thank you so much!

[@roshansamrobert]

Such a food for the soul

[@dotdashdotdash]

Your channel is valuable!

[@elizastoklosa]

I am so excited for Simone Weil. Thank you for sharing. ❤

[@NorthernPear]

Thanks for a lovely newsletter this week, and more book recommendations! “We can be golden because we can be dirty; we can be joyous because we can be frustrated. It is our choice that enables us or that dooms us.” I really like this idea of a type of gold standard for our highest selves: gold is joy, honesty, compassion, etc. As you said, if we’re searching for these things and finding their opposites (anxiety, anger, dishonesty) then we’re not golden, but the good news is that we can become golden still. We’re never stuck unless we choose to be. I look forward to reading Simone Weil. “Things Hidden…” by Girard just arrived in the mail today! Thanks so much, Atesh!

[@acceptingtheuniverse]

Thank you for your kind words and excitement! Enjoy Simone and Girard!

[@imtrusfrated99]

Yeahhh, letssss gooo, another wonderful sets of books.. thank you for sticking around and blessing us with your knowledge and your exceptional presence❤

[@Automobiliana]

What a funny coincidence… I was thinking of just art when you where describing the first book. Art seems so aloof these days that it shields off people. I can’t draw and I can’t paint. But I decided to create something with what paints I had access to. And the results made me proud and glad.

[@Cy4nSw4n]

This made me happy and I'm sure it's lovely

[@ellep1732]

I’m reading Meditations. Thank you for your videos 🙏🏻

[@jackconroy_]

Already excited for Life Changing Books 3

[@creepydani8]

Yay for books! Your passion is contagious. I'm curious to pick up Gravity and Grace. I can also say that art has been a source of resilience and self-exploration long before I had the language to express that. It's one of the few aspects of my life that I am intrinsically motivated to protect and perpetuate.

[@maryamyousaf3302]

You aren't excluded from anything, you are excluding yourself 😢❤

[@vesselofanandha]

I'm running, not walking, to get that Rene Girard book. Thank you for the recs!

[@ThinkingMonk000]

Just starting to watch this, btw, you're awesome! Love all your videos! Great inspiration...thank you so much :)

[@juliemunday841]

Brilliant... thank you ❤

[@jokermotorcycle]

So happy to see you 😅 I been trying find your KZbin 🎉 I’m glad you uploaded 🎉

[@ThisWorldFirst]

I've been needing this, I've gone through all of the first list 🙌🏻

[@angeliachenoweth2522]

Thank you so much for this encouragement!

[@stephenc1226]

Thank you for your Art insights. I just got the two books about art online. Look forward to reading them. As an artist looking for inspiration and insight about my trade.

[@melodyvonsmith745]

A book you recommended in your newsletter - "Leonardo Da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson has proven to be absolutely enlightening as to the messy, horrid but also deeply satisfying (and possibly innate) process that is Art-ing. It's an incredibly valuable read for people who enjoy art and its making... or who think they don't because they find it difficult or can't finish things. (Da Vinco left FAR more projects unfinished than he bothered to complete lol.) Da Vinci was as much or honestly I'd argue MORE so...far more... about the *process* of Art than the final product b/c it is inherently a joyful (if sometimes agonizing) process of discovery. Also, we will benefit from remembering that Music and Books fall under the umbrella of Art. We hear music as a final composition, we read books in their finished form, not appreciating or perhaps even aware that we are reading a years-long culminated effort that is also, at least to some degree, a composite work (editors and beta readers have had their influence) To Art is to Human. The creation of Art should be, (and I believe if humans were left in a more natural state would be) something endeavored for the joy of discovery and creation, not so much for the final, finished work. So go Art, people!

[@acceptingtheuniverse]

Spot on!

[@JC-jz6rx]

It really adds credibility in my eyes as to what these books mean you , the fact that you do not make them affiliate links to profit from in the recommendations. Although I would like for you to derive some profit from your work on this channel. I hope the Adsense is treating you well.

[@FarukAytekin-z3g]

I love how valuable your videos are. I feel very greatful to have been able to find your channel at my age (pretty young). Thank you for guiding me Ates

[@anik4921]

Damn you fine man ! Thanks for the books. As a small token of gratitude I am reading a book which I would like to name. It talks about non-duality and who we are from very raw perspective. "I am that by Nisargadatta Maharaj "

[@jamesstanley6474]

Thanks!

[@acceptingtheuniverse]

Thank you James!

[@jamesstanley6474]

@ I send your podcasts to my grandson who is 14 . I’m trying to guide him to read and appreciate philosophy and to learn about our history. Thank you 🙏.

[@NordicMushroom]

powerful stuff, thank you 🙏

[@Cy4nSw4n]

My ISFP self when I saw books about art in the thumbnail: 👀 OKay srsly though, thank you for another one! I've written a long "to read" list since I started truly getting into philosophy, which was at the beginning of this year. I'll get to these ones too, in time 😊

[@graemeanderson-n9g]

art is..or should be beauty..there are universal laws of beauty..great artists know and express this..no one should feel outside art ..from the common man to the rich 'art conisuer'..what is beauty considered ...is great art..take time out to appriciate it

[@Maximus5021]

Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig. It explored what it is to be human around those with disabilities.

[@tangleduniverse]

I don't know how, but once again you have shared something that I've been thinking about recently. I have a rocky relationship with religion - I grew up with a minister but had decided I didn't believe in God by the time I was 10 years old. I am still not quite a believer, but I consider myself more an agnostic these days, and I find myself completely comfortable listening to the thoughts of those who do believe in one religion or another. My undergrad was in anthropology, and I even took an anthropology of religion course, but it stayed in my comfort zone at the time - it was taught in a way that was more clinical, dissecting belief and behavior based on belief in a way that removed the aspiring objective anthropologist from the subject. I am almost certain we were only briefly introduced to Girard (our text was written by our professor, so we weren't introduced to a lot of life-changing books :D). Anyway, this is a video I'll have to watch again. Love what you said about "meet it, let it pass through your mind" and "this is the work of life." That thing you said about only being able to read a few sentences of Weil - I know just what you mean, and the same happens to me sometimes when I'm watching/listening to your videos. Thank you.

[@jameslarkin6884]

Brother got that Andy Dufresne energy

[@bruba2448]

I shall therefore send to you the actual books; and in order that you may not waste time searching here and there for profitable topics -Seneca(Letter VI)

[@CatsGoMoo100]

Wonderful recommendations! I finished Gravity and Grace a few weeks ago. I read it over the course of this year. As you say, it frequently floored me and overwhelmed me. So beautiful. Directly opposed to Nietzsche, yet just as powerful, thought-provoking and evocative. The two strangely compliment each other. I think there's a few related recommendations I would like to make back to you, if you haven't already encountered them. Two books I've found life changing in a similar vein. One is "Seeing Like a State" by James C. Scott. He's amazing and uses extremely rational, secular principles to look at rationality, logic, politics, ideology, and (for lack of a better term) progress. Based on what you said about seeing yourself as a rational person who looked down on religion, this book -- though not targeted directly at religion -- is a powerful antidote to that viewpoint. He shows older civilisations as more integrated and holistic. This made them beautiful places to live and be, but difficult to manage or measure. Rationality and science made things easier to grasp and led to technological leaps forwards, but he looks at what -- if anything -- we can say has progressed qualitatively. It is a masterwork, in my opinion. The second is "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bichameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes. One of the few books which lit a bright fire in me which has yet to dim. A wonderful, imaginative, singular whirlwind of a book. Honestly beautiful and something I frequently find myself thinking of and hearing echoes of in others thoughts and words. It's a book I love. I don't know if it's "True". But it lifted me and presents such a wonderful way to view history and oneself. Anyway. I love your videos. I love your book recommendations. Ellen Dissanayake sounds wicked and I will be reading her for sure. Thanks again for everything you do! ❤

[@acceptingtheuniverse]

Thank you for your kind words and the recommendations; I will check them out!

[@myodesign]

You have my ear, my friend.

[@DurchgehendamPC]

okay lets read

[@hwk2610]

Pls do Part III ASAP

[@Honestrespectfully]

I'm not even done part 1 chill haha

[@vikas33-f7j]

@@Honestrespectfullyexactly hahaha

[@atharvasrivastava9373]

Can You Please recommend any works of eastern philosophy like The Bhagwad Gita, Or maybe some books on Buddhism or confucianism? That'd be really helpful. And Thankyou very very much for the books in your last video and this one as well.

[@adarshgeorge6860]

He only recommends what he read we should take his recommendation not tell us about ours...that what makes him trustable

[@favOriTe-v6e]

6:41 dont worry im actually very intrigued

[@Zahra_12441]

Thank you very much ❤ Do you have any novel recommendations?

[@fatimaashfaq5790]

My bros hair is art tbh

[@isabel4957]

I think you would love the work of Etty Hillesum, a fascinating mystic ❤️

[@isabel4957]

Thank you ❤

[@Cinderella227]

The Library of Alexandria managed to salvage some books. The Bible is my favorite book because it covers all topics. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Les Miserables by Víctor Hugo, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Great Works of William Shakespeare, The Poetry of William Blake, Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Yeats, Khalil Gibran, of course Longfellow and Bacon. Thank you for such a profound book recommendation. Btw You look like one of my younger brothers. Thank you and God bless. ✝️❤️👍🏻

[@daltonhenry2365]

Dude okey all of these topics that ur talking abt is great but what can we do to look as good as u ?

[@awykus]

As a gay person, hearing that I am not excluded from church and religion, but I am excluding myself sounds like sad irony.

[@FloraParrish]

I am bisexual and I understand what you mean, I understand this pain and this fight we go through. But I believe that since he generalized religion to its core and not to the rules that men created through it, this feeling that we do not belong based on a heteronormative rule that was imposed on us from an early age stops being "I am excluded" and becomes "I am excluding myself" when you realize that God or the Universe really does not care and does not judge you for who you relate to, but how you contribute to the world since the main intention of all this religions is to do good, to study life, to accept and understand its meaning. Religion was used as a weapon and politics by powerful men and lost its meaning in many parts of history, but I believe that the Universe will always have its doors open to a more complete understanding of itself, its power and of life for whoever wants to understand it. ❤️‍🩹

[@fartaignelives6889]

I am never without things to read! How could you ever be..? Currently reading ‘The Goshawk’ by T.H White… Seneca letters ongoing, as is ‘Meditations’ I like to keep my ‘to be read’ pile borderline intimidating 😂

[@grayoOooOo]

I've noticed your mic quality has improved immensely. So crisp and clear of background noise. May is ask how you achieve this?

[@mariavazquezgrande5173]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@cruzperezz01]

Currently reading The Open Society Playbook by Scott Howard

[@sharmiladelrey5259]

the Quran, english version: the Clear Quran, , encourages seeking knowledge, a rational mindset, and contains several stoic concepts

[@andreajoy224]

Thank you for passing along these life changing books to us again! So thoughtfully and beautifully described. 🤗

[@zediogo8860]

If you are feeling stuck in life i reccomend the slight edge by jeff olson and mastery by robert greene in this order

[@MistyVarin]

Estes Toone The Painter keeps painting. I think that you will enjoy it . KZbin he is my favorite artist I paint to his music.

[@MarcelinoMakar]

You should read weight of Glory by CS Lewis

[@patrickloftus19]

Just subscribed. Really appreciate your content. I started my own KZbin channel not too long ago, can I ask what type of camera you use?

[@hihoot]

i am going to be the third comment hahah (watching now), thank you for all

[@saimfarooqui5503]

what are your thoughts on readng fiction

[@Skk2713]

Thanks

[@macrocosmicorbit3982]

Wonderful channel ..if you like fiction try reading "In the shadow of crows" by David Charles Manners

[@Vox92384]

Hitler book in the background? Based

[@Victoria-s5c1i]

Maktub

[@gufu-ck7ku]

🤍🤍

[@Sweetsiren.1]

dont u read dostoyevsky or nietzche or camus? if not, why?

[@bruba2448]

Currently reading Thus said Zararhustra. It's a hard read for me. How did you digest it?

[@zediogo8860]

Bro really sneaked in Camus with Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky lmaooo

[@Sweetsiren.1]

@ sad that u didn’t get the point and secondly, i’m a girl

[@bruba2448]

@@Sweetsiren.1 Do not sirens drown sailors? The username 'Sweet Siren' must be an oxymoron! Hahaha!

[@SØREN77Ø]

Algorithm

[@Honestrespectfully]

Impressive one taker so far, 10 mins in 🫡❤

[@Victoria-s5c1i]

Maktub