Title: An Anthology
Author: Simone Weil, Introduction by Sian Miles
Simone Weil was a philosopher and mystic who revealed attention to be the purest form of generosity. She was dedicated to truth and saw that which is pure good is pure truth.
Title: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Author: Paulo Freire
“Through the right kind of education, avoiding authoritarian teacher-pupil models and based on the actual experiences of students and on continual shared investigation, every human being no matter how impoverished or illiterate, can develop a new awareness of self which will free them to be more than passive objects responding to uncontrollable change. As Freire resents it, each individual wins back the right to say his or her own word, to name the world.”
Title: To The Lighthouse
Author: Virginia Woolf
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others… and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”
Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
“An examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America’s Northwest, undertaken by a father & his young son.”
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