Ways of Wisdom (Values/Golden Rules)
1) Maintain a relaxed state of body and mind. (Interoception/Awareness)
2) Move the body every day. Move the body in different ways. (Self-discipline/Motivation)
3) There are no victims here. Let your tormentor be your mentor. (Resilience)
4) Everything is a choice. When you blame others for your circumstances, you rob yourself of the
power to change. (Accountability/Personal responsibility)
5) Happiness is not a destination. Chasing it is a trap. (Contentment)
6) Be grateful for waking up. Be grateful for sleep. (Gratitude)
7) Respect yourself without disrespecting others. (Self-esteem)
8) There is no try. Do or do not. (Persistence)
9) There is no growth without challenge and suffering. (Perseverance)
10) Live in the moment without regret or judgment. (Mindfulness)
11) Mind yourself. Trying to change others is unwise use of energy . (Discernment/Radical Acceptance)
12) Are you on the path of love or are you on the path of fear? . . . (Know and follow your 5 Agreements. )
13) Leggo your ego. (What is your level of self-awareness? Are you in ego consciousness or soul consciousness? )
Wholeness. Balance. Wisdom.
Recommended Reading: Books for People Who Read
Recommended Reading: Books for People Who Read
“Be careful what you understand.”
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
I am Legend Richard Matheson
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula Le Guin
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu
Permutation City Greg Egan
The Silent Planet trilogy C.S. Lewis
The Kybalion “The Three Initiates”
Blood Meridian/ The Road/ No Country for Old Men/Outer Dark Cormac McCarthy
Slaughterhouse Five/Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
Deathbird Stories/I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream/Angry Candy Harlen Ellison
The Tao of Jeet Kune Do Bruce Lee
The Outsider Colin Wilson
Only Lovers Left Alive Dave Wallis
The Secret History Donna Tartt
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
Idiots in the Machine Edward Savio
Jennifer Government/Lexicon Max Berry
Generation X/All Families are Psychotic/Girlfriend in a Coma Douglas Copeland
American Psycho Brett Easton Ellis
Casino Royale/From Russia with Love Ian Fleming
The Donnie Darko Book Richard Kelly
Wetiko Paul Levy
Wetiko (Algonquin): A mind-virus, a parasitic cannabalistic psycho-spiritual disease that causes humans to exploit others and the Earth out of greed and desire for personal gain, usually self-destructive.
(In no particular order, but maybe start with the first one.)
The Four Agreements/The Fifth Agreement/The Mastery of Love Don Miguel Ruiz
The World’s Healthiest Foods George Mateljan
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death Irvin D Yalom
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model Richard Schwartz
The Book of Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind Shunryu Suzuki
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts/The Myth of Normal Gabor Mate
Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
My Voice Will Go with You Milton H. Erickson
Hope and Resiliency Betty A. Erickson
Integral Psychology / Integral Life Practice Ken Wilber
Overcoming Emotional Chaos Doc Childre/Deborah Rozeman
Games People Play Eric Berne
Surrounded by Idiots Thomas Erickson
Reality Therapy William Glasser
The Happiness Trap Russ Harris
Rewire Your Anxious Brain Catherine Pittman
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson/Roger Wayne
The 48 Laws of Power/The Laws of Human Nature Robert Greene
MacBeth/Hamlet/The Tempest William Shakespeare
Man and His Symbols /Memories, Dreams, Reflections/The Collected Works of C.G. Jung
The Teachings of Don Juan/Art of Dreaming Carlos Castaneda
The Stranger/The Plague/The Fall Albert Camus
The Metamorphosis/The Trial Franz Kafka
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Dracula Bram Stoker
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert L. Stevenson
The Portrait of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Valis trilogy PK Dick
Neuromancer/Pattern Recognition Willam Gibson
Solaris Stanislaw Lem
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
1984 George Orwell
Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabrial Garcia Marquez
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
Crime and Punishment / Notes from Underground Dostoevsky
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
The Apology of Socrates Plato
In Search of the Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky
Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson G.I. Gurdjieff
Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell
Out of the Shadows/Facing the Shadows/ The Betrayal Bond Patrick Carnes
Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
Stalking the Wild Pendulum Itzhak Bentov
Power of Awareness Neville Goddard
Enneads Plotinus
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Myth of Mental Illness Thomas Szasz
The Divided Self R. D. Laing
The Conspiracy against the Human Race Thomas Ligotti
The Way of Zen/ Wisdom of Insecurity Alan Watts
The Essential Rumi Coleman Barks
The Law of Illumination Ken Wheeler (Ken Theoria Apophasis Substack)
The Universal One Walter Russell
The Origin of Consciousness Julian Jaynes
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