Welcome
What follows is a shared adventure in publishing and the internet.
I will be putting my book on this site as the chapters are completed.
On Being Human: An Owner’s Manual
This is a book about what it means to be a human being — the many issues and questions we face in trying to live a complete and fulfilled life. Since the currents of life come at us in disorderly ways, you can read this book like that, jumping in where it seems most relevant, then going back to fill in the pieces.
The questions to be considered are:
- What am I doing here, alive on this planet?
- How should I live?
- How do I make decisions?
- What is truly important?
- Where do I turn for guidance?
As you might guess, dealing with these questions means dealing with many different topics and many different areas of human experience — running counter to the modern tendency toward specialization and books with single themes. This book will not err in its specialization — but will undoubtedly err in attempting too much. Thus I beg your indulgence in the attempt to capture in this one place as many of the currents of a human life as possible.
If you have thoughts, questions, or differences of opinion with what is written here, join me in a dialogue about what it means to be a human being. Please post your thoughts, and create a discussion or contact me anytime.
One thing more: You are welcome to reprint and share thoughts or paragraphs from this book. However, please acknowledge the copyright as follows: Reprinted from On Being Human: An Owner’s Manual, ©David V. White, http://ameaningfullife.org (Thank you for your courtesy in this.)
This book will also be published in print form, hopefully by the end of 2010. Contact me for more information.
A Favorite Quote
All
human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from,
and to, and why. —James Thurber
Enough preliminaries! Enjoy the adventure! Click
on the first chapter to begin
to freely explore — On Being Human: An Owner’s
Manual
Chapter One. It Starts With Questions
Chapter Two. The Radical Notion of “I”
Chapter Three. Worldviews – Path or Prison
Chapter Five. Whim and Culture
Chapter Seven. The Limits of Logic
Chapter Eight. The Place of Intuition
Chapter Ten. The Message in Art
