Books about being human?

[Peggy Holman]

Two books finally popped to mind to add to this luscious list that is  
forming:

Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice.  It helped me understand that  
men and women really do approach the world in very different and  
complementary ways.

Aldous Huxley's positive utopia, Island.  Two of my favorite ideas  
from it:

*there are myna birds all over the island reminding us to be present  
because their calls are "attention, attention" and "here and now,  
boys, here and now."  (Okay, a bit of a gender thing, but it was  
written in 1962 before people were conscious of gender neutral  
language.)

*  One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think  
I am must endure is unavoidable.  It is the sorrow inherent in the  
human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self- 
conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws  
of nature and under orders to keep on  marching, through irreversible  
time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward  
decrepitude and the certainty of death.  The remaining two thirds of  
all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned,  
unnecessary.


overcast in Seattle,
Peggy

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On Aug 28, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Karen Sella wrote:

> Hello again, One & All,
>
> Thank you so much to everyone who has responded to this question  
> thus far—it is such fun to open my inbox and have all of these gems  
> waiting for me.  I’m grateful to all of you—and for those of you who  
> have enquired, I’ll definitely make the list of books available to  
> all.  I’ve queried a couple different lists in which I participate,  
> so when the responses seem complete, I’ll probably post something on  
> my blog and send everyone a link.
>
> Thanks much,
> Karen
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