One dark winter’s night, I was in bed, sitting perfectly erect, completely oblivious to my surroundings, my eyes fixated on the pages of the book I was reading – a book that was to change my life. Continue reading
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One Year Since My Father’s Death – Reflections on: TV, Music, Food, Religion & Sufism
On January 13 2012, my late father, may he rest in peace and light, died of cancer. We know that one in three of us will get cancer some time in our life – it’s a scary prospect but one we must acknowledge. My dad, unfortunately, first got cancer when he was about 41 or 42, which is pretty young. Age, however, is irrelevant: kids get cancer these days. Continue reading
Book List For 2012
These are the books I would like to read in 2012:
The Secret History of the World – Jonathon Black
Killing Hope – William Blum
The Alchemy of Happiness – Al Ghazali
Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife: Book XL of the Revival of the Religious Sciences
Al Ghazali’s Path to Sufism
Islam, religion of life – Abdul Hakim Murad
The Time of the Bedouin – Ian Dallas
Sea Without Shore A Manual of the Sufi Path – Nuh Ha Mim Keller
Coming Back: Science of Reincarnation - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bhagavad Gita as It Is
1984 – George orwell
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman – Malidoma Some
Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
The Awakening of Intelligence - J. Krishnamurti
The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk (a quarter of the way through already)
The Brothers Karamazov -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
The Essence of Buddhism: An introduction to its philosophy & practise – Traleg Kyabgon (a quarter of the way through already)
