Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Zen In The Martial Arts by Joe Hyams. Lots of insights applicable to every aspect of Life, The Universe and Everything. Short stories, some include Bruce Lee, that make a good subway read too.

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I'm reading a book on secret societies. I am prepared for stigmas to be removed and for gaps of knowledge to be filled in

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another vote for "skinny bitch" it totally blew my mind. that combined with the peta videos of the animals being abused caused me to go vegan cold-turkey

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"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." —Albert Schweitzer

"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women" ~ Madeline Albright

Most influential dealing with animal rights (at least partially): The Broken God by David Zindell

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Into the fire with your soul!

Zen mind, beginners mind - Shunryu Suzuki
Sit down and shut up - Brad Warner
The second sex - Simone de Beauvoir

1984 by George Orwell
Notes from Undergorund/ The Idiot / Crime and punishment - all by Dostoyevsky
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (not a novel, but had a big influence on me)
Divine Names, Mystical Theology & Celestial Hierarchy by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (not novels, too - but very interesting for those who like mysticism)
I don't read much literature and when I do, I am more into classics. Usually, I read book about history, art, spirituality...

And my favorite and most used book about healthy food and lifestyle is
Aveline Kushi's Complete Guide to Macrobiotic Cooking: For Health, Harmony, and Peace

and not to forget, the latest I've read about nutrition:
Douglas Graham's "80/10/10 Diet"

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My training diary: http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=22216

I don't read much these days... actually, its been many years since I've read a novel or a book about spirituality. I've read 4 or 5 books about nutrition and veganism, animal rights in the past 5 years but nothing else. (the World according to Monsanto, 80/10/10 Diet, etc). I don't know why, I used to read a lot. Many novels, essays, compilations of short stories... Now I'm not even able to read books that I must read. I'm supposed to study books about massage therapy but it takes me months and I haven't read even half of what I need to.

Anyways, the next books I wanna read and I think I will really like them are: Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama, and Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda.

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"Do your best, don't worry, be happy" - Meher Baba

"Ask and It Is Given," by Abraham-Hicks. And every other thing they've done.
"The God Delusion," by Richard Dawkins. And every other thing he's done.
"All Thoughts Work™ Outdoors," and every other thing I've done.

Benjamin Disraeli said it best: "When I want to read a book, I write one."

Baby Hercules

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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn - Although I think The Story of B is actually better, but I read that ten years after Ishmael changed my life.
The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
The China Study by T Colin Campbell

Just finished reading Men's Work: How to stop the violence that tears our lives apart by Paul Kivel - I recommend it to all males!

Presently reading Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X - both really inspirational.

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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
- Bruce Lee

Andrea, I really like the part that illuminates how complaining, lashing out, etc. reveals what a person is afraid of, his perceived weaknesses. Reason enough to stop complaining from now on. Never let 'em see you sweat! (Unless you're at the dumbbell rack.)

Herc

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Living Christ, Living Buddha my Thich Nhat Hanh
Meat is for Pussies by John Joseph

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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. ~ Buddha ~

Adding to this:

Phillip K Dick - VALIS

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rational romantic mystic cynical idealist.

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Which ones? The Freemasons are shockingly dull because most of them have lost any knowledge of what they're doing beyond "it's all just symbolic" but these days they're slowly getting an influx of people who have backgrounds in various mystery schools so that could change.

All based on what I know from my male friends, of course.

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You know I just couldn't get into it. He is such an angry writer, and it seems that most of his points are against organized religion, for for atheism...

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Learning how to be compassionate, gain wisdom, and love life.

If speaking of life affecting books:
Fit for life by Harvey and Merylin Diamond - I read this book when I was like 17 and it literally changed me - I was a vegetarian at this time, and it was then when I first started with the vegan diet, and more recently:
Skinny bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin that brought me back to vegan after years of vegetarian lifestyle.

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