Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Pick a Random Book

Start a morning like this: Go to one of your bookshelves and pick a random book. Well, maybe not too random- make it a book you like. Open the book and point to a randomly selected page. Use that as a meditation of what you need today or what to reason and think about. Here's mine, from Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters by George Jackson-

from page 102:

"...I stay busy, all of the time. I never have enough time to do the things that I must. I have made inroads into political economy, geography, forms of government, anthropology, archaeology, and the basics of three languages, and when I can get a hold of them some of the works on urban guerilla warfare......

I must now start doing all that is humanly possible to get out of prison. I can see great ill forecast for me if I can't find some way to extract myself from these people's control. ... I don't mind dying but I'd like to have the opportunity to fight back. Take care, George."

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