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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
Abraham Joshua Heschel · 126 pages
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas a Kempis · 236 pages
With the exception of the Bible, no Christian writing has had so wide a vogue or so sustained a popularity as this. And yet, in one sense, it is hardly an original work at all. Its structure it owes largely to the writings of the medieval mystics, and its ideas and phrases are a mosaic from the Bible and the Fathers of the early Church. But these elements are interwoven with such delicate skill an
Tao te Ching
老子, Yang Peng, Jordi Fibla · 120 pages
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
N.D. Wilson · 224 pages
Imbolc: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Brigid's Day
Carl F. Neal, Llewellyn Publications · 190 pages
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Swami Satchidananda, Patanjali · 252 pages
For the Time Being
Annie Dillard · 205 pages
Following a novel, a memoir, and a book of poems, Annie Dillard returns to a form of nonfiction she has made her own--now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical
My Utmost for His Highest
Oswald Chambers · 400 pages
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran · 107 pages
Reflections by the Lebanese poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.
Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
Frederick Buechner · 97 pages
Gift of Union Presby. Church Sustain Trust Fund.
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki · 211 pages
When Zen Flesh, Zen Bones was published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire generation of readers who were just beginning to experiment with Zen. Over the years it has inspired leading American Zen teachers, students, and practitioners. Its popularity is as high today as ever. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones is a book that offers a collection of accessible, primary Zen sources so that re
Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton · 156 pages
Orthodoxy is G. K. Chesterton’s response to his critics’ assertion that his earlier collection of essays, Heretics, had “merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy.” In his intellectual journey from pagan to agnostic to positivist philosopher, he had attempted to build a philosophy “some ten minutes in advance of the truth.” But when he compared his modern p
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings
D.T. Suzuki · 294 pages
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 130 pages
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
Teachings of the Buddha
Jack Kornfield · 240 pages
A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis · 67 pages
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man -- or at any rate a man like me -- out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional b
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Miguel Ruiz · 164 pages
In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. A New York Times bestseller for over a decade An international bestseller publishe
What Makes You Not a Buddhist
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse · 136 pages
So you think you're a Buddhist? Think again. Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, one of the most creative and innovative lamas teaching today, throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world, challenging common misconceptions, stereotypes, and fantasies. With wit and irony, Khyentse urges readers to move beyond the superficial trappings of Buddhism—beyond the romance with beads, ince
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
Stephen Batchelor · 320 pages
The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Buddhism
Dalai Lama XIV
This is It & Other Essays on Zen & Spiritual Experience
Alan W. Watts · 158 pages
The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara
Santideva · 224 pages