Conversations with God

About 10 days ago I renewed my library subscription for the first time after 11 years, not counting school and university libraries. One of the reasons I did it now is because I decided to read a book by Neale Donald Walsch called Conversations With God - Book 1. It is a book that a very dear person to me draw my attention to some years back. Then I was in a different state of mind and far less experience, and discarded the book as something I could be interested in just by it's title. People say don't judge book by it's covers, but I didn't even see the covers, title was enough for me. Though neither title, nor content of the book hasn't changed and what I thought that book is about still is true today, I somehow had the need to read it. And boy was I surprised. After just a few pages I was hooked an interested in what He has to say. Today I've finished reading the book and I wonder if my life would be different if I read it then. No I don't regret, just wonder. And though my point of view towards religion hasn't changed, I have to agree with most (if not all) of the things written there. No matter what we chose to believe in and how we chose to call it, the truth (at least the one I believe in) is that we have the power to become more then we are and that we need to listen more to our instinct and connect more with our spirit. Highly recommended reading for anybody who's open minded enough :-)

Letters, words, sentances, books

As a child I didn't like to read. I'm not sure why. Maybe because I didn't discover the right books when I was small and then, when the school started, it became an obligation. And I guess there is something in the basic human nature to define things he somebody else imposes.

It wasn't until high school that I realized that I do like (some) books and only in college I started really loving the act of reading. The only problem then was that I was already late and chronically without time (see two posts before). But this year I decided to make a change. How did I solve the problem of time? Well, in general by getting more organized, but I'll write about this some other time. As far as books are related, I try to read as often as I can. I stopped watching TV (and TV shows on computer) and I always have a book next to my bad. Major help are also audio books. It helps pass time while commuting to work/school/airport when it's unpractical to hold a book in hand (or you should keep attention on your personal belongings - Milan is not the safest place to live in).

How did I solve the problem of being late and missing out on years of reading. Well, that's not something one can solve that easy. But I've made a list, with the help of others, of must read books. And I'm just taking it one by one.

What I would also like to start doing is to keep a journal of the things I've read and how I felt about them and any other associations that I might have at the moment.

That's one of the things you can expect to find here from time to time.