I heard about "The five people you meet in heaven" by Albom, mitch. I know its plot and so I want to read another philosophical novel which tells you about life and stuff like that. I mean you can also tell me any other book you have read. Although I like science I dont really like reading science fiction because its too much for an easy read. I mean I need a nice stuff which is really unique. Something like "life of Pi" or something thats really life related. Please note that I am a teenager and I would like a book without big words but I can really understand things. I love philosphy and things like heaven, life after death and stuff like that. I am so sorry for writing such a "big" paragraph about what I want but it would be really nice of you if you can help me. May God bless you ( including people who dont help me because I know my request is weird)
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Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss\n\nFrom 1988.  A story based on a psychiatrist and his patient where he discovers all the past lives she has lived.  It goes through how this girl knew things about his past that she could not have possibly known but knew due to her past lives.\n\nModified to add this: Synopsis \nMANY LIVES, MANY MASTERS is an engrossing and compelling look into the subject of reincarnation and past-life therapy. Dr. Brian Weiss was a successful and conservative psychotherapist when he met the subject of his book, Catherine, a young woman having problems with anxiety and depression. After exhausting his usual course of treatment with no success, Dr. Weiss turned to hypnotherapy. While under hypnosis, Catherine began speaking of a place she referred to as "between lives," a realm of spirit guides who had messages for this world. She also spoke of her own past lives and described events that could possibly explain her current phobias and fears. Dr. Weiss was understandably skeptical until Catherine began telling him about his own deceased son. With this verifiable information, Dr. Weiss felt he had discovered his life's work: to educate the world about past lives and their potential for healing. Dr. Weiss weaves science and metaphysics into a well-paced narrative that reads more like a mystery than nonfiction. Throughout the engrossing plot, Dr. Weiss builds a strong case for his theory that past lives can unconsciously influence present-day living. MANY LIVES, MANY MASTERS has become a classic in the field of reincarnation studies and past-life therapy.
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From The Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams ---\n\n42
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Life has its moments when everything is just f ucked up, and death just sounds like a easy way out, but to be honest i  been through that and then i realized that my life is not that worthless i mean if you want if you try and believ in your self you can basically acomplish anything you want, why give up that chance before you find out. You read a book to get to the end, if you close it in the middle on purpose and don't ever get to finish it whats the point of reading. Life is just like that.  It think you might just be deperessed a simple medicine can change the way you think. Go see a doctor.
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Yes, its a great book and opens up all new ideas about life and religion.  It really makes you think. It was written by Neale Donald Walsh. One of my favourite things written in it was, 'No one will judge you ever, for why, and how, could God judge God's own creation and call it bad?'
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I could never top this excellent answer that I received for a similar question (from YahooGuru4u), so I quote it here verbatim. Of course, I ruled out the answer "42."\n\n"Darn you. You sucked me in with your question, then I get here and I see 42 is already taken. Now we really have to go on a trip and I'm without a towel. Well ok, let me see what I can come up with, shooting from the hip as it were.\n\nMy best guess is that the meaning of life, the universe and everything is "MORE". The quest for more seems to be at the center of all living creatures. All organizations be they organic or manmade seem to be trying to get "more". The universe itself is expanding, so I am told. As for "everything" anything that should happen to get created instantly becomes part of everything, so even everything seems to crave more. Yes I think I'll stick with the answer "MORE". What? Wait, just a minute, my wife is yelling something from the kitchen......\n\n(long pause).....Hello I'm back again. My wife says the answer is "LESS" She says life is always moving toward death which by it's very nature is less life. The universe is made up of a limited quantity of everything and it is being used up also, so you have less now than in the past, and as for "everything" Well since everything gets used, you must have less of everything now than there was in the beginning.\n\nSo my wife and I will agree to disagree and say that the answer is: More or Less, or possibly More and Less. I guess that's pretty much the same as 42 because 4 is more and 2 is less. I'm getting a pain just behind my left eye from all of this thinking.\n\nWhat!? Just a minute, my wife is yelling again!........ I'm back. She said I'd better get off this Yahoo Answers thing and come to the table if I want any dinner. I told her that I'll never have to come back to Yahoo Answers again because I just pretty much summed up life, the universe and everything. I'd better hurry if I want more to eat and less yelling. So long and thanks for all the fishes."\n\nHappy Answering,\n~Tia~\nLive from the big, purple brain\nhttp://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html\nASK YOUR QUESTIONS, CALL THE BRAIN - 212-382-3592
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Keep an open mind and learn from other religions.  if you really listen, you'll hear a lot of similarities.  if it is uncomfortable, stay away from the topic of religion and stick to the things that made you friends in the first place.  i think people will go to heaven if they are good and hell if they are not. no matter what philosophy you follow, there is always a basic belief or faith or values that keep you "good", regardless of religion.
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I sympathize. I think this belongs more in Philosophy than in singles and dating.\n\nI think it's a trap we all fall into. Want a new car. Within three days we're looking and wondering why we didn't choose another. We get a DVD movie. While watching it we're deciding the next one we'll get. On vacation, planning the next vacation. Sound familiar?\n\nThe remedies, if you're looking for them, don't seem to lay in getting more but in appreciating more.\n\nLiving in the moment.\nPracticing a genuine appreciation for what brings or supports happiness.\nSharing (not gloating) with other people.\n\nYou'll find the ideas explored in "Conversations With God, Book 1" (not a religious book) and "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success."
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ive read it i think its a pretty good book .\ni recom. lovely bones  -or- the five people you meet in heaven
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I've read almost all of Orson Scott Card's books.  Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are very good books.  However, he lost my interest when he created the duplicate Val and Peter at the end of Xenocide and the last bok in that series is pretty awful (not the writing, the story).   \nThe Philotic connections that allow instantaneous communication by ansible are an interesting theory.  It is nice to believe that we are all somehow connected by invisible threads but I seriously doubt that there is any scientific truth to it.
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The Celestine Prophesy by James Redfield.\n\nIt gives a different slant on experiencing life.
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Put a twister to it. Most books about the end of the world all end just about the same. Try getting something different to happen like only a contiuation for the next book. Let want ever happens be only a book that is being read and not true.
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Personally I liked "Physics and Philosophy" and "Physics and Beyond" by Heisenberg.  The latter is Heisenberg's autobiography, but it has some interesting ideas in it.  I also like a multiple volume set of books called  "The World of Physics: A small library of the literature of physics from antiquity to the present" There are a lot of excerpts dealing with historically important discoveries in physics.  It tends to go somewhat easy on the math too.  More recent popular books are "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, and "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene.
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this is the first and probably the most favorite thrown around in philosophy class. very amusing, very self entertaining, very useless.\ntake your 'reality' as you know it ... your senses, your memories, your thoughts and feelings. now, cease to exsist. not too cool, is it? no fun at all. oh, btw we are all still here, but you're gone. (i've had the opportunity to reach the edge of death twice now, i know.)\n"laters"
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The Golden Age trilogy by John C. Wright\n\nHe's a newer sci fi writer writing about the far distant future of humanity. Interesting, intellectually challenging books. The link below is for the first book.
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try reading "tuesdays with morrie" by mitch albom and "veronica decides to die" by paolo coehlo. it will change your perspective in life
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This is life as we know it.  You only get one crack at life.  Doesn't really bother me at all.  What is else is out there...?  Jimmy Hoffa's body?  Only your imagination can make it into whatever you desire.  Heaven?  Reincarnation?  Trapped in another astral plane?  Nothing?  Everything and more?  Voyager?  Seifert Galaxy?  Beyond Andromeda?  Aliens?  God?  An ice cold mug of root beer bigger the known universe?  OK, I talked me into it.
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Ever read the Metamorphosis by Kafka. Don't. \n\nTry to take pleasure in the little things and don't look toward the materialistic ever because then life will be empty. \nI can't tell you what life means exactly. \nIf you ever have a free moment to yourself you should try to get out and find somethings that inspires you. \nFind something to live for or a cause to live for. Never stop learning.