Christianity in books I read

18 Jan 2010 2 Comments

by TLT in Books

I read quite a lot of stuff outside my work interests especially when I roll in bed before I actually go to sleep. Once I find a book engaging, I will keep a copy of it with me so that I can read and reread it whenever something revelant to what I read therein pop up. Among books that I have read are M Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled,  Maxwell Maltz’s Psycho-Cybernetics, Chin-ning Chu’s Do Less Achieve More and most recent one Jean Houston’s  a Passion for the Possible. These books are the kind that you actually experience rather than read, because the ideas presented there are very thought-provoking that you automatically connect them to your experiences. These books actually challenge you to test the ideas proposed therein. The books will also give you real exercises for you to practise.

So someone asks :will I find the truth on this shelf ?

I am not a person perfectly apt to discusss Christianity. But it is there in all the books that I read above. Last time when I was a lot younger  I encountered the same thing in Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking, I was rather scared that by reading alone, the teaching of Christianity would sap into me without me being aware of it. So, I burned the book.

Now I read the same kind of stuff but with an attitude. The teaching there are not going to get into me. It is possible that I may understand them, but they are not for me. Read it and leave it. I am glad that I embrace and was taught the Furqan first before I venture into the worldly books.

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I also read Dr Aid Qarni’s Jangan Bersedih, but the approach is really really really different. I read a bit of Dr Tuah Iskandar’s writing in local magazines but am not impressed at all. We muslims have yet to come up with good write up of motivational books encompassing all the modern ideas on psychology. Am I wrong here ? What book I turn to now when I am feeling down, really down ? First and foremost : The Al-Quran. When I am really at the pit of that bottomless abyss, I would open any page at random of that glorious Book and soon I would find the answer that I seek. Always.