I just finished a highly enjoyable book, This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women.
It's a collection of short essays by all kinds of people (famous and non-famous, old, young, men, women, working, non...) who have summarized their life beliefs. Some of the essays are about God or science, or about service and helping others. Some talk about history in a way that is new and meaningful to me. One starts out, "Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it's good luck."
I am always fascinated to learn about people's beliefs - and there is a web site about this project: ThisIBelieve.org. You can also listen to many of the essays there as they are archived from the original NPR series, including browsing by topic (i.e. peace or patriotism).
This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values that guide their daily lives. These short statements of belief, written by people from all walks of life, are archived here and featured on public radio in the United States and Canada, as well as in regular broadcasts on NPR. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow.
4 comments:
Hmmmm, sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out. I love reading how people think. Maybe that's why most of my reading these days are blogs?!
That sounds really neat, Syd! I love reading about people's beliefs, too. I'll have to check out that book.
It's always nice to read short essays as you can put down and pick up whever you like!
It's totally true -- you must be cool to the pizza delivery guy. We have such bad pizza kharma because of this. We can't order from any of the pizza places around our house now...We learned our lesson!
I know this post is ages old, but I gotta mention that the library has the CD of the book, with people reading their essays for the radio. And yes, "Be cool to the pizza dude" is a great one. Tim used it for a zen talk after he heard it.
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