Enlightenment


Candide
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Siddhartha
The Social Contract
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
The Enlightenment, Volume 1: The Rise of Modern Paganism
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
The Alchemist
Critique of Pure Reason
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Two Treatises of Government
Meditations
Man's Search for Meaning
The Spirit of the Laws
De Rerum Natura by David HillstromDestiny's Stereo by R. Antonio MattaThe Light in the Piazza by Elizabeth SpencerThe Boy Who Met Jesus by Immaculée IlibagizaTales of Hank by Elena Jdanova
Best Books On Humanity & Love
32 books — 14 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Essential American Education
21 books — 8 voters

A Wicked Company by Philipp BlomSystem of Nature by Denis DiderotFinal Balance by Stephen   BlackThe Hidden Words Of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláhRealising The All (God?) Journeying into Feelings and Beyond by Winfried Sedhoff
Materialism
10 books — 5 voters
Spiritual Words to Live by  by Todd PerelmuterManage My Emotions by Kenneth J. MartzA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiMindfulness for Beginners by A. J. CameronWhat Healing Should Be by George  Alexandru
Self-Inquiry
46 books — 41 voters

Alexander Pope
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos ...more
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

He couldn’t save the world outright, but he could aid it by living a life of integrity and contentment. If enough people did the same, the hundredth monkey effect would reshape the world, and in this way, he would be saving the world within a collective effort. Till then, he’d dive deeper and deeper into the calming depths of the sea, safe from the storms on the surface. And when he found himself coming up for air to interact with an unbalanced person who was stuck in the methodical illusion of ...more
Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

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