Stand up and be counted with your peace be with you, your charity begins at home, love thy neighbour as thee love yourself, your shalom, your salaam alakum, your namaste, your spirit of ubuntu and masakhane. And the words of wisdom by Mohatma Ghandi ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’ resound more loudly, clearly and truthfully than ever before.
Rise my brother and sister, rise to the occasion, instead of with a spear, resentment or hate, we rise with wisdom, knowledge and love to redress the failing of our ancestors, the ills of our beloved country, embrace the future and course out a map were we are all free and equal. And all of this starts with a single step, a single choice. Educate. Educate. Educate!
The Books:
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
It’s a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. Well, “Blink” is a book about those two seconds, because I think those instant conclusions that we reach are really powerful and really important and, occasionally, really good.
You could also say that it’s a book about intuition, except that I don’t like that word. In fact it never appears in “Blink.” Intuition strikes me as a concept we use to describe emotional reactions, gut feelings–thoughts and impressions that don’t seem entirely rational. But I think that what goes on in that first two seconds is perfectly rational. It’s thinking–its just thinking that moves a little faster and operates a little more mysteriously than the kind of deliberate, conscious decision-making that we usually associate with “thinking.” In “Blink” I’m trying to understand those two seconds. What is going on inside our heads when we engage in rapid cognition? When are snap judgments good and when are they not? What kinds of things can we do to make our powers of rapid cognition better?
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Breakthrough Experience by John Demartini
- Capitalist Nigger by Chika Onyeani
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt
- How to make one hell of a profit and still get to heaven by John Demartini
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason
- Shirley, Goodness and Mercy by Chris van Wyk
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
- The Heart of Love: How to Go Beyond Fantasy to Find True Relationship Fulfilment by John Demartini
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- Ishmeal by Daniel Quin
- The seat of the Soul by Gary Zukov
- In search of the Maraculus by Ouspensky
- The Witch of Portabello – Paulo Coehlo
We would like to add more books to this list. Forward you recommendations to us and we will surely update our books to read list.