Necessities for Understanding the Independent Living/Inclusion Philosophy and Movement

* “NO PITY” by Joseph Shapiro.

* “Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract" by Marta Russell.

* “How Can I Help?” by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman.

“Compassion in Action” by Ram Dass and Miriam Bush.

* “Crip Zen” by Lorenzo Wilson Milam.

* Laura Hershey. Any and All of Her Poetry and Writings, especially: “You Get Proud by Practicing.” found in “Poems from ADAPT”

“Circle of Friends” by Robert Perske.

"Learning Outside the Lines" by Jonathan Mooney and David Cole.

* “New Mobility Magazine”

* “MOUTH Magazine”

* “The Ragged Edge”

* “Inclusion News”

Great Books about the Bigger Picture
(and there are so many more)

Viktor Frankl. “Man's Search for Meaning”

Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield. “Handbook for the Soul”

Marian Wright Edelman. “The Measure of Our Success”

Marian Wright Edelman. “Guide My Feet”

Thich Nhat Hanh. “Being Peace”

Thich Nhat Hanh. “Peace at Every Step”

Thich Nhat Hanh. “Living Buddha, Living Christ”

Deepak Chopra. “The Seven Spiritual Rules of Success”

Henry David Thoreau. “Walden and Other Writings”

Walt Whitman. “Leaves of Grass”

John G. Neihardt. “Black Elk Speaks”

Marilyn Ferguson. “The Aquarian Conspiracy”

Kahlil Gibran. “The Prophet”

Mahatma Gandhi. “His Official Autobiography”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - anything

Sogyal Rinpoche. “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying”

Benjamin Hoff. “The Tao of Pooh”

Richard Bach. “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”

Roger Von Oech. “A Whack on the Side of the Head”

Roger Von Oech. “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants”

James Redfield. “Tha Celestine Prophecy”

* first buys.