Stories From Zen Books
People Worth Knowing. Ideas Worth Considering. Actions Worth Recognizing.
What makes a life meaningful?
There probably isn't one answer.
For some, it is discovery. For others, courage, curiosity, creativity, service, independence, perseverance, or simply the willingness to see something differently.
Zen Books explores the people, ideas and choices that give our lives meaning.
Some of the people we write about changed the world. Others changed a community, challenged an assumption, helped another person, stood for something important, or simply left things a little better than they found them.
Some are famous. Many won't be.
We aren't interested in measuring their lives by wealth, status or celebrity. Nor does recognizing something worthwhile about someone mean agreeing with everything they believed or did.
We're interested in a different question:
What is there in this person's story that the rest of us can carry into our own lives?
That might lead us to a scientist, teacher, philosopher, journalist, entrepreneur, artist, public servant—or someone whose name you've never encountered before.
Zen Books began with the idea of bookkeeping: keeping records and making sure things add up.
We're still keeping books.
Just a different kind.
People worth remembering.
Ideas worth
considering.
Actions worth recognizing.