The most powerful passages you've ever read

[jbischke]

I'm interested to find out the following from members of this community.

What are the most powerful passages you've ever read? You know, the stuff that really inspires you and drives your life. Here are tw of my top ones (I'll add more later):

1. Ken Wilber's Witness exercise - This is contained in a number of his writings including Grace and Grit. Reading this over and over again gives me a sense of peace of fearlessness that little else does.

2. Steve Pavlina's Empowering Beliefs blog post - This is sooo good. And covers so many bases.

OK, your turn!

[Akashic_Librarian]

The Tao Te Ching is pretty phenomenol.

The Tao Te Ching

[rene_stpierre]

I'll go for a passage I've heard.

It's from a Zig Ziglar CD I've been listening to in my car on my way to work.

"You can get anything you want in life, if you just help enough people get what they want."

René

[jbischke]

Originally Posted by rene_stpierre

I'll go for a passage I've heard.

It's from a Zig Ziglar CD I've been listening to in my car on my way to work.

"You can get anything you want in life, if you just help enough people get what they want."

René

Sweet. Which Ziglar program are you listening to?

[vaibhavsharma]

Hi

The most powerful passage, which I have ever read is from the book "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. This is towards the end of the book, when Howard Roark gives his testimony and summation; and explains at length why he blowed the building.

Kind regards
Vaibhav Sharma

[jbischke]

I have goosebumps just thinking about that passage. Thanks so much for the reminder here!

[Isabelle]

Just do it ! - Nike

This may sound silly, I know... But it really helps me a lot to stop thinking and to take action.

[Liara Covert]

I enjoyed Steve's Empowering Beliefs blog and some of the most profound words I have read are below
The PROPHET, by Kahlil Gibran

[savethebook]

I have a bunch of favourite passages - I loved Steve's article about why you should never have a job and one of the most incredible books ever the Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac (liked it much more than On the Road). Here's one of my favourite passages from it:

See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn’t really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deoderants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of ‘em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures
-The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

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