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KurtistheTurtle
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1966 Posts
September 20 2012 00:42 GMT
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I'm looking for a book. A book that when the oceans have receded, the rain and wind have washed mountains and trees and everything away, its wisdom will remain. That kind of book. Deep, difficult, inaccessible, but holding priceless treasure.

Any book, any author, any language, any time period. I have an immense amount of time and guidance to grapple with it. Looking for suggestions

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
Iranon
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States983 Posts
September 20 2012 00:44 GMT
#2
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but this is definitely one of my "desert island" books.
babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
8765 Posts
September 20 2012 01:01 GMT
#3
The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by Andrew George.
Flip9
Profile Joined June 2012
Germany151 Posts
September 20 2012 01:22 GMT
#4
Tao Te Ching

or anything from Eckhart Tolle
itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9168 Posts
September 20 2012 01:30 GMT
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Henry A. Kissinger, White House Years (1979), Years of Upheaval (1982), and Years of Renewal (1999)
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GohgamX
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada1096 Posts
September 20 2012 04:29 GMT
#6
I really enjoy books by Robert Green. Not so much spiritually focused but more so on human nature using sooooo many awesome historical references.

1998 The 48 Laws of Power (with Joost Elffers)
2001 The Art of Seduction
2006 The 33 Strategies of War
2009 The 50th Law (with 50 Cent)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Greene_(American_author)
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TroW
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States67 Posts
September 20 2012 04:41 GMT
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

All classics that I have found to be thought-provoking and worthy of study time and again.
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
September 20 2012 04:47 GMT
#8
Just read some literature that's studied in universities. You won't get anywhere asking what TL likes if you're looking for intellectual.

You are looking for a book that will give you a profound feeling and emotion after you've read it that will make you think for awhile after you've put it down. I've felt like that too.

I will name Kokoro and Solaris as two books that had such an effect on me, but really just read whatever is in the literary canon that interests you.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
September 20 2012 05:18 GMT
#9
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.
10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights - Ryu Mitsuse
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
surfinbird1
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany999 Posts
September 20 2012 08:22 GMT
#10
In general I would only recommend math books to you since those are probably the only ones fulfilling your requirements. As a math student I can tell you that it's worth your time and effort. As far as non-math books go, I'm not big on spiritual stuff, so here are a couple books that had a big impact on me: "Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy" by Johann Wolfang von Goethe, "The Robbers" and "Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, "The Metamorphosis" and others by Franz Kafka, "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" and "Stories of Mr. Keuner" by Bertolt Brecht, "Narcissus and Goldmund" and "The Glass Bead Game" by Herman Hesse, "The Royal Game" by Stefan Zweig, "Homo Faber" and "The Fire Raisers" by Max Frisch. Too many to count. Just read some classic literature as Chef suggested.
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