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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 468,807 ratings — published 1997
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 25,551 ratings — published 1966
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 35,741 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 561,750 ratings — published 1984
Being and Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 28,532 ratings — published 1927
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 122,956 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 — 1,468,238 ratings — published 2016
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 905,087 ratings — published 1922
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 132,913 ratings — published 1982
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 55,430 ratings — published 1994
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,704,164 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 — 101,329 ratings — published 2021
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 9,672 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 — 483,123 ratings — published 2012
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 224,401 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 — 248,126 ratings — published 2012
The Way of Zen (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 23,940 ratings — published
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 8,984 ratings — published 1973
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 48,385 ratings — published 1992
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 50,980 ratings — published 1970
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 67,053 ratings — published 1996
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 186,763 ratings — published -350
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,703 ratings — published 1958
Schooled (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 30,752 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,491,789 ratings — published 1942
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)
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avg rating 4.34 — 12,143 ratings — published 2002
Speaking with Nature: Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 301 ratings — published 2015
Mountain Rain: A Biography of James O. Fraser, Pioneer Missionary to China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 620 ratings — published 1982
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 33,231 ratings — published 1939
What Are People For? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,943 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 4.02 — 43,964 ratings — published 2023
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 192,021 ratings — published 1946
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 223,541 ratings — published 1927
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,949,740 ratings — published 1963
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,136,015 ratings — published 1866
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 77,393 ratings — published 1956
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 84,595 ratings — published 1956
A Confession (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 20,982 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 4.24 — 6,011 ratings — published 2019
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 95,263 ratings — published 2023
Confessions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 77,340 ratings — published 400
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 67,606 ratings — published 2019
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,264 ratings — published 2020
A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 284 ratings — published 2003
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 121,836 ratings — published 2020
A Gentle Reminder (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 22,370 ratings — published 2021
The Human Condition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 10,006 ratings — published 1958
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 370,220 ratings — published 1925
“Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”
― Immortality
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”
― Immortality
“Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")”
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