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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 475,779 ratings — published 1997
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 25,589 ratings — published 1966
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 36,036 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 570,233 ratings — published 1984
Being and Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 28,847 ratings — published 1927
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 125,574 ratings — published 2002
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,491,960 ratings — published 2016
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 917,187 ratings — published 1922
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 133,763 ratings — published 1982
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 55,767 ratings — published 1994
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,762,926 ratings — published 1988
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 102,572 ratings — published 2021
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 9,774 ratings — published 2019
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 486,244 ratings — published 2012
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 225,629 ratings — published 2005
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 250,021 ratings — published 2012
The Way of Zen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 24,084 ratings — published
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 9,001 ratings — published 1973
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 48,741 ratings — published 1992
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7,373 ratings — published 1984
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 51,394 ratings — published 1970
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 68,025 ratings — published 1996
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 188,460 ratings — published -350
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,721 ratings — published 1958
Schooled (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 30,907 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,533,629 ratings — published 1942
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)
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avg rating 4.33 — 13,168 ratings — published 2002
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,906 ratings — published 2023
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 868,726 ratings — published 2000
Speaking with Nature: Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 302 ratings — published 2015
Mountain Rain: A Biography of James O. Fraser, Pioneer Missionary to China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 626 ratings — published 1982
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 33,586 ratings — published 1939
What Are People For? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,985 ratings — published 1990
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.01 — 45,688 ratings — published 2023
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 195,919 ratings — published 1946
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 227,454 ratings — published 1927
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,998,859 ratings — published 1963
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,162,549 ratings — published 1866
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 78,066 ratings — published 1956
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 86,015 ratings — published 1956
A Confession (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 21,484 ratings — published 1880
Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 6,212 ratings — published 2019
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 100,747 ratings — published 2023
Confessions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 78,786 ratings — published 400
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 68,448 ratings — published 2019
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 89,187 ratings — published 2020
A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 286 ratings — published 2003
“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)”
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“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate; he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
