Name one movie, book or experience that changed your world view

It always amazes me how much is said about Buddhism. How much is talked about being still.

actually, me too

Experiences, difficult to say, so many. I've been in the desert in Egypt, in Atacama in Chile, in Peruvian deserts... rocks or sand landscapes, being in Valley of the Moon in Bolivia, saw the snows of Canada but I guess the odd place which did something within me was sleeping at night in cold weird alien environment about 4000 meters upon sea level and literally stepping on clouds at Marcahuasi, Peruvian plateau. Not even the Amazon jungle, the waterfalls in Iguazu or Niagara Falls had that effect. Though the Canadian side lit with spotlights at night are wonderful indeed. Yet the desert has something special running inside you, you feel insignificant before nature and you see falling stars at night in Middle East. spectacular sunrises and sunsets. Watching tall skyscrapers for the first time as an adult also provides a feeling of wonder about what humans can do.

wait, let me guess, you dont always drink beer, but when you do, you prefer Dos Equis...

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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There is a difference between stillness with eyes closed and stillness with eyes open.

Oscar Wilde's Soul of Man Under Socialism. Read it first at fifteen and keep going back to it.

There was also a Buddhist writer I read one time (a Tibeten Rinpoche) who explained how anger was an addiction the same way drugs or alcohol are.

I think that a movie I watched as a kid, shown at school on what to do if a nuclear bomb strikes introduced me to how scary the world was.

Many years later an audio by Thich Nhat Hanh reminded me how beautiful the world can be.

Gone With the Wind. Totally illustrates this:

"If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd worked for all my life, and I had to start again, with just my children and my wife" - Lee Greenwood, Proud to be an American.

I think it is the most powerful movie ever made. It covers everything.

Everybody needs to find their OWN "red soil of Tara."

Gone With the Wind. Totally illustrates this:

"If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd worked for all my life, and I had to start again, with just my children and my wife" - Lee Greenwood, Proud to be an American.

I think it is the most powerful movie ever made. It covers everything.

Everybody needs to find their OWN "red soil of Tara."

When i read this poem written by a young girl in her death bed i shed a tear, its so beautiful.


# Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a
butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the
fading night?


You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won't last.



Do you run through each day
On the fly?


When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores
Running through
your head?


You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won't last.


Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,
Not see hissorrow?



Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time
To call and say,'Hi'


You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won't last.


When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....

Thrown away.



Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.#


I hope this makes you think about life even for a second

My Grandmother's favourite movie, I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Great film, haven't read the book.

really? You know, I'm always amazed to find out how many people have never seen it. I think a lot of people think it's a sticky sweet romance or something, and not about the horrors of the Civil War and one story of a woman who had her life ripped apart and always found a way to survive. I've seen it many times now, and always declare "I'll never go hungry again!"

Nice thread OP.

btw folks, if you haven't seen Gone With the Wind, do it. It is considered by many to be the greatest American film ever made.

And if you don't watch old movies, you are missing out on history AND entertainment.

Check all the movies made in 1939 in addition to GWTW. It was an amazing, amazing year.

2001: Space Odyssey

This movie made me question my existence.

Debbie does.....oh never mind.

Great Post but too many pages. Next time ask one simple question and No comments to entries.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Movie

The Odyssey of Homer

Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins

Regulators -King/Bachman

no pleasing some people.

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