by Tanmay, (30 posts) on October 7th, 2012 In Paul Coelho’s The Alchemist, Santiago embarks on a spiritually awakening journey of fate and freewill to complete his Personal Legend. He liberates himself from the sabotaging spells that blind his society, attempts feats few are capable of doing, and encounters The Alchemist. Santiago stumbles upon situations of interest and inspiration in his adventure that [...]
by Tanmay, (30 posts) on October 7th, 2012
Siddhartha is the son of a respected Brahmin. Handsome, intelligent, and well educated, everybody thought he was destined to become like his father, a talented priest. Yet Siddhartha was not happy of his fate. Tormented by doubt with regard to the practice of his father’s religion, he finally decided to leave everything behind and [...]
by (Jolly) Nga Wan, (36 posts) on November 4th, 2011 Think:A compelling introduction to philosophy is an non-fiction philosophy book. Here is a series of quotations from the first chapter:
This book is for people who want to think about the big themes: knowledge, reason, truth, mind, freedom, destiny, identity, God, goodness and justice. … These are not the hidden preserve of specialists. they are [...]
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