Here you can read it for free online: http://www.ananda.org/autobiography/
Hello there, today I go through Steve Jobs ("the guide to meditation and spirituality that he had first read as a teenager, then re-read in India and had read once a year ever since.")
favorite book. The Autobiography of a Yogi. This was the only book he downloaded on his computer. I never read a book as quickly as Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson.
It's amazing. It's a pity I never met him. He was so great in so many ways. He also shows in this book his weakness which is a great strength in itself. Let's see which book influenced and inspired him in so many ways.
Last words of the great and belated Jobs. Thank you for changing our world to a better.
Yogananda’s book changed the Lives of Millions. In 1999, it was designated as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century" by a panel of theologians.
It introduces millions of readers to Eastern spiritual thought and the books masterly storytelling epitomizes the Indian oral tradition with its wit, charm, and compassionate wisdom.
Autobiography of a Yogi is not an ordinary book. It is a spiritual treasure. To read its message of hope to all truth seekers is to begin a great adventure.
Yogi begins by showing how his childhood experiences in turn-of-the-century India spiritual youth in search of an enlightened teacher. Years of training in the hermitage of a revered master, concludes with the highlights of a period, beginning in 1920, during which he lived and taught in America.
Some Quotes out of Steve Jobs favorite books
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"Shunryu Suzuki, who wrote "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind" ran the San Francisco Zen Center
As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.
"Jobs began sharing with his friend Daniel Kottke other books, including…Cutting through Spiritual Materialism…
"Another book that deeply influenced Jobs during his freshman year was Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé… ‘That’s when I swore off meat pretty much for good,’ Steve Jobs recalled."
“Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for beauty. Once we cut the automatic but learned connection between buying stuff and pleasure, we can actively cultivate new connections - a sense of freedom as we shed draining habits and discover new pleasures in seeing and creating beauty all around us.”
"Jobs found himself deeply influenced by a variety of books on spirituality and enlightenment, most notably "Be Here Now (Ram Dass)…" ‘It was profound,’ Jobs said. ‘It transformed me and many of my friends.’"
“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
