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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author) (shelved 425 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.70 — 835,923 ratings — published 1988
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by Eckhart Tolle (shelved 403 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.02 — 70,808 ratings — published 1997
Siddhartha (Paperback)
by Hermann Hesse (shelved 368 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.91 — 223,038 ratings — published 1922
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Paperback)
by Wm. Paul Young (shelved 331 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.61 — 264,487 ratings — published 2007
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 323 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.40 — 841,887 ratings — published 2006
The Prophet (Paperback)
by Kahlil Gibran (shelved 271 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.20 — 97,787 ratings — published 1923
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
by Miguel Ruiz (shelved 240 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.03 — 63,771 ratings — published 1997
The Screwtape Letters (Hardcover)
by C.S. Lewis (shelved 228 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.16 — 150,562 ratings — published 1942
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
by C.S. Lewis (shelved 226 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.26 — 124,096 ratings — published 1944
The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1)
by James Redfield (shelved 226 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.47 — 49,543 ratings — published 1993
The Art of Happiness (Hardcover)
by Dalai Lama XIV (shelved 226 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.11 — 64,602 ratings — published 1998
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Paperback)
by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author) (shelved 186 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,365 ratings — published 1999
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Paperback)
by Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author) (shelved 182 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.82 — 299,311 ratings — published 2003
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for? (Paperback)
by Rick Warren (shelved 176 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.75 — 98,918 ratings — published 2002
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
by Benjamin Hoff (shelved 154 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.99 — 55,209 ratings — published 1982
The Bhagavad Gita
by Anonymous (shelved 151 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.01 — 31,990 ratings — published -500
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (Paperback)
by Donald Miller (shelved 150 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.96 — 59,486 ratings — published 2003
The Secret (The Secret, #1)
by Rhonda Byrne (shelved 145 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.44 — 133,383 ratings — published 2006
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by Richard Bach (shelved 143 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.71 — 81,773 ratings — published 1970
Autobiography of a Yogi (Paperback)
by Paramahansa Yogananda (shelved 139 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,077 ratings — published 1946
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Paperback)
by Robert M. Pirsig (shelved 137 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.70 — 112,886 ratings — published 1974
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Paperback)
by Todd Burpo (shelved 132 times as spirituality)
avg rating 3.98 — 138,757 ratings — published 2010
Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
by Neale Donald Walsch (shelved 127 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,020 ratings — published 1995
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by Thich Nhat Hanh (shelved 126 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.35 — 16,989 ratings — published 1990
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Paperback)
by Shunryu Suzuki (shelved 125 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,195 ratings — published 1970
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams (Hardcover)
by Deepak Chopra (shelved 124 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,653 ratings — published
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by Jon Kabat-Zinn (shelved 120 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,341 ratings — published 1994
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
by C.S. Lewis (shelved 120 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.26 — 63,728 ratings — published 1945
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by Viktor E. Frankl (shelved 116 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.32 — 97,903 ratings — published 1946
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (Paperback)
by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author) (shelved 111 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.02 — 18,014 ratings — published 2004
Holy Bible: King James Version (Hardcover)
by Anonymous (shelved 111 times as spirituality)
avg rating 4.36 — 90,721 ratings — published 150
“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
― Paul Klee
― Paul Klee
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”
― Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”
― Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte
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