One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
By: Henry Shukman
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
One Blade of Grass tells the story of how meditation practice helped Henry Shukman to recover from …
Want to Read $ 9.99"I’d learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good ."-Henry Shukman, One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
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1. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
By: Chris Whipple
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and i… read more
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"At a farewell party, his staff presented him with a gift: a beaten-up car seat—a nod to his Secret Service code name."-Chris Whipple, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
"When government works, it is usually because the chief understands the fabric of power, threading the needle where policy and politics converge."-Chris Whipple, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
2. Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
By: Joseph Goldstein
4.38
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The mind contains the seeds of its own awakening—seeds that we can cultivate to bring forth the fru… read more
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- spirituality
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3. Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
By: Jack Kornfield , Daniel J. Siegel , Rick Hanson , Richard Mendius
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like any… read more
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4. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker
4.21
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more
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"Waves are the practice of the water."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
5. How the World Works
By: Noam Chomsky , David Barsamian , Arthur Naiman
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive." B… read more
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- philosophy
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6. Everyday Zen: Love and Work
By: Charlotte Joko Beck
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Zen guide to the problems of daily living, love, relationships, work, fear and suffering. Combini… read more
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7. Axis (Spin, #2)
By: Robert Charles Wilson
3.50
Format: 224 pages,
Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spinwon science fiction's high… read more
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8. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
By: Douglas E. Harding
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instanta… read more
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9. The Three Pillars of Zen
By: Philip Kapleau
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Phil… read more
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10. Lying
By: Sam Harris
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vic… read more
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11. Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
By: Anthony de Mello , J. Francis Stroud
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
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12. The Way of Zen
By: Alan W. Watts
4.17
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up t… read more
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"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
13. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
By: Sam Harris
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a gu… read more
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14. The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
By: None
3.20
Format: 192 pages,
Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of ev… read more
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15. Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
By: David Whyte
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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16. Modern Man in Search of a Soul
By: C.G. Jung
4.20
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern … read more
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"Is that which science calls the “psyche"-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
17. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
By: Parker J. Palmer
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teach… read more
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18. Four Thousand Weeks
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.22
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more
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"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
19. Be Here Now
By: Ram Dass
4.33
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more
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"Be here now."-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"Be here, now!"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
20. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
By: Michael Pollan
4.27
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more
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"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
21. Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self
By: Jay L. Garfield
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why you don't have a self--and why that's a good thing In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a … read more
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22. Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness
By: Tara Brach
4.37
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully illustrated gift book to help us uncover and trust the innate goodness in ourselves a… read more
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23. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
By: Shoji Morimoto
3.34
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
24. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
By: Reid Hoffman
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Foreword by Bill Gates LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Maste… read more
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25. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
26. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
By: Annaka Harris
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fas… read more
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27. Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed
By: Peter Singer
4.55
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influ… read more
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28. In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
By: Yongey Mingyur
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan… read more
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"Actually, everything is in-between."-Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
"No separate me loved the world. The world was love. My perfect home. Vast and intimate. Every particle was alive with love, fluid, flowing, without barriers."-Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
"To approach the finality of our bodies while paying no attention to the mini-deaths of daily life is like confusing diamonds with pebbles and throwing them away."-Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
"It [mind of absolute reality] is everywhere and nowhere. It’s somewhat like sky—so completely integrated with our existence that we never stop to question its reality or to recognize its qualities."-Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
29. One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
By: Henry Shukman
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
One Blade of Grass tells the story of how meditation practice helped Henry Shukman to recover from … read more
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"I’d learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good ."-Henry Shukman, One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
30. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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31. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
By: Alan Townsend
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more
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