It's been almost a month now since I've been reading The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey by Henri Nouwen and I feel like in some ways, it has changed the way I think and my own spiritual journey. I'm usually a fast reader who picks up a book, reads it and then puts it away. But this is one book I've been reading every single day. Nouwen said that he wrote the book because he felt the need to describe simply and honestly what happened to him after he found a home. I think that he has done
I have read the book, My Thirteenth Winter by Samantha Abeel. It is a book about determination, hard work, and hope. A young girl named Sam who was dyslexic in math and struggles through high school. This book is full of great life lessons such as, never giving up and remaining positive in a bad situation will result in a better outcome. Samantha Abeel began writing at the age of fifteen. She has published two books My Thirteenth Winter and a poetry book called Reach for the Moon. She is currently
greatest writers, Ernest Hemmingway, said that, “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters most in the end.” For me, the journey that mattered most to me was my journey in 2013 to the National Geographic World Championships. Although the end result of this long endeavor was definitely a moment to remember for the rest of my life, it was what led up to those final moments that made me realize that you can learn and experience more from the journey than from
today). He came from a Jewish family background, where his father was a lawyer and a descended from a long line of rabbis’ background; while his mother was a daughter of a banker. This book tells about the journey on how he came to embrace Islam at the age of 26, with very much detail on his journeys to Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya. This book was written in the year of 1954, in order for him to explain what had brought him to Islam. Muhammad Asad used many
For my primary text, I chose the excerpt about I-Tsing from “World of the Buddha.” “World of the Buddha,” is considered to be one of the most important pieces of literature in the Buddhist religion. In this book, there is a description of life in India at the time of the Buddha and about the Buddha himself. It is directed to readers who want a rich, varied, and understandable collection of pieces in one book. (Barnes&Noble, 2015). Each chapter has a preface that gives a little information about the
from a place where his future was already determined not to go beyond what the mill town offered. The author, Rob White, shocked the neighbourhood by becoming a college boy, a teacher, and eventually a billionaire. He acknowledged that his success in life was not his own and there were people who helped him along the way, though not in material things but in something that mattered to him more – his character. What the author mainly wants to communicate with the reader is that we also have these “unexpected
Self-reflection, enlightenment and overcoming the tribulations of life have been the subject of writers such as Tolstoy, Thoreau, and Primo Levi. These travelling-book companions of the young “aesthetic voyager” Christopher McCandless serve as inspiration when Chris decides to walk into the wild, living only off the land and in complete isolation; therefore achieving his thirst to escape his parents, and society’s human to human cruelty. Director Sean Penn offers the film, “Into the Wild”, an adaptation
squad leader, my life changed in an instant. Driving down the main route, within the Mata Khan district of Paktika province, during a routine mission with Afghan National Army troops, my thirty-ton mine-resistant vehicle struck a bomb that was comprised of 120 pounds of homemade explosives. The blast forced the vehicle ten feet into the air, physically splitting it in half. After being medically evacuated to a combat theater hospital in Bagram, Afghanistan, it was discovered that my injuries consisted
part of my life journey that has shaped me to accept myself, to discover and deepen my passion for Politics, to accept that I would not always be the best at everything I do. ALA has shaped me into this young confused young man unsure about his future plan but sure he has to go through any challenge to face his future. Failing has been a great challenge at ALA considering that I was this excellent student respected by my fellow back home. Admitting that was a very hard part of my ALA journey, but
The Said and the Unsaid Italo Calvino, an Italian journalist and writer, while talking about books, defines a classic in this way: “The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them” (Italo Calvino’s 14 Definitions of What Makes a Classic) . The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, and The Things