This demonstrates the power of pure truth and honesty. The only works I've ever read that demonstrate this kind of self-knowledge are Ghandi's autobiography and The Awakening of Intelligence.

Thanks for the video.

https://www.amazon.com/Wrestling-God-Men-Homosexuality-Tradition/dp/0299190943

Here's the description of the book. It's a reflection on the jewish faith and same-sex love. I'm not jewish, but my best friend is, and she thought the passage was sweet so she sent me that image. Idk wether she has read the entire thing or if she found this bit online, though, so I can't really give you context for now

The Prophet, by Kahlil Gilbran

http://www.amazon.com/The-Prophet-Kahlil-Gibran/product-reviews/1614270627/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1

[The Awakening Of Intelligence – by Jiddu Krishnamurti]
(http://www.amazon.ca/The-Awakening-Intelligence-Jiddu-Krishnamurti/dp/0060648341)

Check out the reviews on Amazon. This is clearly a 5 star success. And those reviews are obviously not fake at all.

From his legendary book A Boy Aware: On Being Fifteen:

>But jiggling your plastic

>And smiling your seductive silicone at me

>Just won't work like it used to.

>I now own something that is not bought

>I have dignity,

>Which is something your plastic parts

>Can't give you.

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

I love Crowley too.

Don't forget to buy my book...http://www.amazon.com/Ijynx-Blair-MacKenzie-Blake/dp/0975720031

I highly recommend The Awakening of Intelligence for a good primer on Krishnamurti's ideas.

It isn't quite true to say that Hebrew and Greek had words for homosexuality, but they did have extensive vocabularies for discussing sexual relationships between men.

In the New Testament, the Greek vocabulary for sex between men is not used. There are a couple of resources that go into this.

• Arsenokoités and Malakos: Meanings and Consequences by Dale B Martin
  
• Same-sex relationships: 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy by me.
  
  I'm not as well-versed in the Hebrew side of things, but the book Wrestling with God and Men is a good place to start.

The Prophet-

In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have.

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There's a newer translation available which probably does it more justice. It has footnotes against certain verses to highlight their particular religious significance.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0199552312/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_vMcCybE7MGXH1

I found it a much more enjoyable read than the Barks revision of the text.

The Space Born, no words to tell you how good it is.

Sim, esse livro: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1930337035/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_vote_lft?ie=UTF8&voteInstanceId=R1Z0IQM7FIBQJ1&voteValue=1&csrfT=gCvdhBqkxAzXqp29AtogD18nrW332LUIJZ%2BuOXIAAAAJAAAAAFmzRlByYXcAAAAA#R1Z0IQM7FIBQJ1&

O livro é muito ruim.

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran It's a very profound book of poetry. Though Gibran was a Christian, The Prophet is not overtly so, though it does reflect Christian beliefs.

A quote:

He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

https://www.amazon.com/Rumi-Daylight-Daybook-Spiritual-Guidance/dp/1570625301

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  
• Awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Khrisnamurti
  
  You might end up not caring about the list after those, though :)

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Conspiracy of...?

Konsonantal linguistics, Theology, Anthropology etc?

It's just wurd play mate.

Where does the konspi... Oh..

I do understand that anything novel is seen by the naive as untrustworthy.

Established authority and mainstream consensus has not had the time to catch up.

Therefore, suspicion is grounded in sound Reasoned Logic.

I understand.

However,

Just read ze damn book/site and it's not new anymore!

Its how new things become old, when audiences download the NEW information.

Free copy of Imago.

The website is 1st draft, stream of consciousness research notes, scribbles and flights of fancy for future worjs, sneak peaks...

The Book is Gold
Containing Consonantonumeric cipher (translate any language into any other language quantifiably superior to all other methods of translation)

And square circle spacetime geometry breakdown.

Also poems.

Awesome, new, and FREE!

Though if you like it, please spread the word and encourage purchase to support further new content.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zajD6vSJ4ABy13APbldb0upVKSy1t-WW/view?usp=drivesdk

And the shop version

amazon.co.uk/Imago-One-Again-Anthony-Kennedy-ebook/dp/B01MSUURUQ

It DOES make you smarter just by reading it, or your time back!

A good friend of mine has read several editions and said Stephen Mitchell's version was by far the most readable.

Steven Greenberg, who wrote Wrestling with God and Men, perhaps?

I got some great insight from a modern translation of Tao Te Ching.

I highly recommend David Hinton’s:

Tao Te Ching https://www.amazon.com/dp/1619025566/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Y5VaBb2TQ0Z16

His is the most readable and poetic in English that I’ve found yet.

You can preview the first few chapters here: https://www.amazon.com/Tao-Te-Ching-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061142662/ref=reader_auth_dp

And if you decide to read it, I'd definitely go with Mitchell's translation. It's not the most accurate, but it's a really beautiful and poetic translation (and good for beginners).

Just note that I disagree with u/midnighttoker3 about this being relevant to what you're looking for. I really don't think there's a fleshed-out notion of soul or reincarnation in Taoism, or at least in the Tao Te Ching. I'm sure you can find some proof-texts to challenge this claim, but there can be no denial that Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism are more soul- and reincarnation-heavy than Taoism.

Sure thing. Kind of a big pocket, though...

https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Bodhisattvas-Way-Life-Altruism/dp/0948006889

It's probably twice the height of a book you might consider pocket-sized. I think of it that way because it's pretty durable, bendy, and not wider than a back pocket or a jacket pocket.

I can't vouch for it personally, but I've heard that the more recent Mojaddedi translation is quite good and faithful to the original. u/pacman99

https://www.amazon.com/Masnavi-Book-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199552312

Edit: looks like he tries to make it rhyme, though, which means that it isn't a word-for-word translation. I don't know how this compares to Nicholson's approach.

दाढ़ी अब पकने लगी है

दाढ़ी अब पकने लगी है,

जुल्फें जो थिरकती थीं गाहे बेगाहे उंगलियों में,

कन्घे की गिरफ़्त से भी सरकने लगी हैं,

दाढ़ी अब पकने लगी है

​

वो कनखियों से देखना,

उस छ्त से अब नही होता,

मुहल्ले की नई नस्ल

अब अंकल कहने लगी है,

​

दाढ़ी अब पकने लगी है



कल पुरानी अल्मारी साफ़ करते हुये,

लुढ़ककर गीरे थे कुछ अल्फ़ाज गर्द मे डुबे हुये,

जो कहे थे हमने तुमने आखरी बार,

और फ़िर कहना छोड दिया था,

आ अब फ़िरसे सारी “कट्टी” छोड़कर,

“मीट्ठी” कर लें,

लब खामोश रहें,

आँखें सब शिकवे कर लें,

क्योंकि घड़ियॉ बडी तेज गुजरने लगी हैं,

​

दाढ़ी अब पकने लगी है

​

उसकी लकीर मेरी लकीर से बड़ी कैसे,

बहुत मेहनत की तेरे “मैं” ने मेरे “मैं” ने,

कर ली इकट्ठी बहुत डीग्रीया,

बहुत सिढिया चढे,

चल अब शुन्य से फ़िर शुरु करें,

भुलने की कवायद कर लें,

गुजार दी तमाम उम्र अबतक लड्ने में,

बस अब और नही,

सीज फ़ायर कर लें,

कानों के उपर सफ़ेद झंडीयाँ,

झलकने लगी हैं

​

दाढ़ी अब पकने लगी है

​

From: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07H4QDY7T

Get this book this exact one. Read it forwards then backwards. It lead me down the path of accepting things and learning how to make myself happy.

Also these:
[primer] (http://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Language-Course-Lois-Rothblum/dp/0874414636/)

[level 1] (http://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Language-Course-Level-One/dp/0874413311/)

[level 2] (http://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Language-Course-Level-2/dp/0874413605/)

[level 3] (http://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Language-Course-Level-3/dp/0874413818/)

[reader to continue after the course] (http://www.amazon.com/Reader-Modern-Hebrew-Prose-Poetry/dp/0874414806/)

I prefer the Stephen Mitchel version (not illustrated)

http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Te-Ching-Perennial-Classics-ebook/dp/B003SHDM8O/ref=dp_kinw_strp_exp_12_1

Get a themed anthology. There are several anthologies of women's spiritual poetry, for example:

https://www.amazon.com/Shambhala-Anthology-Womens-Spiritual-Poetry/dp/1570629757

https://www.amazon.com/Women-Praise-Sacred-Centuries-Spiritual/dp/0060925760

https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Light-Spiritual-Visionary-Ancient/dp/1570622833

Anthologies are a good bet for gifts, because there's bound to be something in each of them that will get to somebody, whereas it can be very hard to predict individual preference for a poet.