Reading too many books, learning too many skills, and spending too much time in contemplation may give you more knowledge, but this knowledge has a cost. “A man who is burdened with knowledge, with instructions, who is weighted down by the things he has learned, is never free.” You’ll probably accomplish more this way. We allow our ambitions to create our reality, but this limits our reality. We have to strive for something for our lives to be worthwhile. In society today, we’ve come to an agreement that when we wake up in the morning, we have to “do” something. “Constant endeavor to be something, to become something, is the real cause of the destructiveness and the aging of the mind.” Your Constant Striving Is Destroying Your Mind These were the quotes that made the top 10. Then, yesterday, I went through all the pictures and extracted the most insightful quotes from the entire Book of Life. When I was reading it, any time a particular passage or meditation struck me, I took a photo of it on my phone. I spent 6 weeks pouring over the 365 daily meditations that the book offers (I know it was designed to be read one day at a time, but I couldn’t help myself), and I feel like the book has given me so much to think about and impacted me in so many ways. This book is called The Book of Life, and it covers just about everything you might struggle with in your life. However, the book that has really touched me this year is a book by Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer, Jiddu Krishnamurti. I’ve read a boatload of Eastern philosophy books that I never thought I’d touch, like Striking Thoughts by Bruce Lee and Siddartha by Herman Hesse. Looking back at my reading list for this year so far, 2022 has been a year of spiritual curiosity for me. *shrugs*Īlso, I doubt he was good foundation on metaethics and moral philosophy is general, hence I'm not to sure on how to understand what he mentions on virtue and whatnot.Photo provided by the author. then again, he wouldn't have been able to make the case that the science is rigged. He clearly was a smart man, but his experiments lack rigour and if he was honest about the results, maybe he should have check them with especialists in the area. I do applaud him because he tried to weigh, trial and experiment certain things on himself however he just lacks the knowledge on some areas, so his advice lacks foundation. However the content is quite outdated.Įverything he says about fasting is nonsensical and borderline suicidal, his views on race, marriage and homosexuality are so backwards, I don't even know where to begin with, and his economic views are too utopical. As a pop-science author, he hit the nail in the head. With regards to the content written by Upton Sinclair, overall is good and he's definitely clear in the message. He definitely caught my attention and his voice is clear and focused. Rom Maczka did a really good job in narrating. Well, the rather high score is because I think Mr. Sinclair also ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Socialist, and was the Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California in 1934, though his highly progressive campaign was defeated. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Four years after the initial publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. The Jungle has remained continuously in print since its initial publication. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. These direct experiences exposed the horrific conditions in the U.S. To gather information for the novel, Sinclair spent seven weeks undercover working in the meat packing plants of Chicago. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres.
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