Samuel

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Samuel.

https://www.goodreads.com/crazycloud

The Poetics of Space
Samuel is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Politics of E...
Samuel is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Politics of E...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 14 books that Samuel is reading…
Loading...
Christopher Hitchens
“I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.”
Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

Dan Simmons
“Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”
Dan Simmons, Hyperion

Alan W. Watts
“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”
Alan Watts

Chögyam Trungpa
“The basic point of the lion’s roar is that, if we are able to deal with emotions directly, able to relate with them as workable, then there is no need for external aid or explanations. It is a self-maintained situation. Any help from outsiders becomes credentials. So self-existing help develops. At that point, one does not need to avoid the credential problem any more, because there is no room for speculation or rationalization. Everything becomes obvious and immediate, workable. And there is no chance or time or space to speculate on how to become a charlatan, how to con other people, because the situation is so immediate. So the idea of charlatanism does not appear at all, because there is no room for the idea of a game.”
Chögyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

Sam Harris
“Take a moment to think about the context in which your next decision will occur: You did not pick your parents or the time and place of your birth. You didn't choose your gender or most of your life experiences. You had no control whatsoever over your genome or the development of your brain. And now your brain is making choices on the basis of preferences and beliefs that have been hammered into it over a lifetime - by your genes, your physical development since the moment you were conceived, and the interactions you have had with other people, events, and ideas. Where is the freedom in this? Yes, you are free to do what you want even now. But where did your desires come from?”
Sam Harris, Free Will

year in books
Beth
1,005 books | 58 friends

Helen
1,380 books | 156 friends

Trenton...
2 books | 83 friends

Leah Be...
796 books | 261 friends

Katie
301 books | 52 friends

Alexander
545 books | 9 friends

Desiree...
200 books | 36 friends

Terrell...
31 books | 83 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Samuel

Lists liked by Samuel