Can someone recommend some good books or videos to help get me out of this burn out? I need a recharge from chipping away at this mountain?

The "Tao Te Ching," the "Nag Hammadi Library," and the "Bhagavad Gita. " You may spend most of your lifetime just trying to analyze and make sense of exactly what messages these books are meant to convey.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.