The books in English I have read:

1. The politics of the family - R.D. Laing
2. Living Dhamma - Ven. Ajahn Chah
3. Food for the heart - Ven. Ajahn Chah
4. Tales of power - Carlos Castaneda
5. The fellowship of the ring - JRR Tolkien
6. Zen - a way of life - Christmas Humphreys
7. Seeing the way - (disciples of Ajahn Chah)
8. Meeting life - J. Krishnamurti
9. The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
10. The Return of the King - JRR Tolkien
11. The Second Ring of Power - Carlos Castaneda
12. The Sunlit Path - The Mother
13. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
14. Lonesome Treveller - Jack Kerouac
15. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
16. Bushido - The Soul of Japan - Inazo Nitobe
17. The Lord of The Flies - William Golding
18. Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
19. To Be Human - J. Krishnamurti
20. The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
21. Satori in Paris - Jack Kerouac
22. Memories, Dreams, Reflections - C. G. Jung
23. The Gift of Therapy - Irvin D. Yalom
24. The Tree of Yoga - B.K.S. Iyengar
25. Light on Life - B.K.S. Iyengar

Supermemo

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Poetry

HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
"He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven"
from the Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

 

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

 

Jack Kerouac

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timeline

22 March 1922 Jack Kerouac born, Lowell, Massachusetts.
1939 Receives football scholarship to Columbia University.
1940 Drops out of college after football injury and fight with coach.
1944 Befriends William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg.
1946 Meets On The Road buddy Neal Cassady.
1948 Kerouac invents the term "Beat Generation" when pal John Clellon Holmes asks him to describe the unique qualities of their generation.
1950 First novel, Town And Country published.
1951 Kerouac writes On The Road (not published until '57)
1957 Arrives in Tangier to visit William S. Burroughs. Goes on to Paris.
20 October 1969 St. Petersburg, Florida. Kerouac dead at the age of 47.