10 Best spirituality books like The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors by Lama Rod Owens

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The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors

By: Lama Rod Owens

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Buddhist Lama and intersectional thought leader shares a guide for those who would dream a more j…

If you liked the spirituality plot in The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors by Lama Rod Owens , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation

By: Angel Kyodo Williams , Lama Rod Owens , Jasmine Syedullah

4.38

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • spirituality
"I do the things that I do because I know that I can die at any second. I experience great suffering when I forget my impermanence. My teachers have taught me to love myself, and that has cause me to …"

-Angel Kyodo Williams, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation

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2. Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal

By: Dean Ornish , Rachel Naomi Remen

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Enthusiastically praised by everyone from Deepak Chopra to Daniel Goleman to Larry Dossey, Rachel R… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Belief traps or frees us."

-Dean Ornish, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal

"Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom."

-Dean Ornish, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal

"If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us."

-Dean Ornish, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal

"Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science."

-Dean Ornish, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal

3. The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

By: Pema Chödrön

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us … read more

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4. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

3.65

Format: 192 pages,

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more

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5. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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6. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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8. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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9. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Lama Rod Owens's The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors

  • nonfiction
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10. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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11. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Hersey's Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto book and Lama Rod Owens's The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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12. How We Live Is How We Die

By: Pema Chodron

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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13. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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14. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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15. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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16. God Is a Black Woman

By: Christena Cleveland

4.32

Format: 256 pages, ebook

In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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17. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

By: Jennifer Mullan

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mullan's Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice book and Lama Rod Owens's The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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18. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

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19. The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice

By: Staci Haines

4.24

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

A restorative justice approach to somatic therapy, integrating mind-body healing with social activi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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20. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • spirituality
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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21. The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors

By: Lama Rod Owens

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Buddhist Lama and intersectional thought leader shares a guide for those who would dream a more j… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • spirituality
Cover of Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds by Ethan Nichtern

22. Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds

By: Ethan Nichtern

4.52

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

How do we stand firm amid the ups and downs of existence? In today’s culture of polarization and c… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
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23. I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month)

By: Martina McGowan

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

I am The Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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24. Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom

By: Sharon Salzberg

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Merging the insights of inspiring voices with her own understanding of mindfulness, New York Times … read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

25. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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26. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

27. Imagination: A Manifesto

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of strug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love by Oren Jay Sofer

28. Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love

By: Oren Jay Sofer

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical roadmap to cultivating the heart’s capacity to face and transform our greatest challeng… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey by Peter A. Levine

29. An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey

By: Peter A. Levine

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

• Shares the author’s personal journey to heal his severe childhood trauma as well as his breakthro… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry by Adrienne Maree Brown

30. Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.38

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Fables and Spells, a gathering of adrienne maree brown’s short stories and poems, is a vibrant sele… read more

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  • social justice
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31. The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground

By: Spring Washam

4.44

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Within these visionary pages, meditation and dharma teacher Spring Washam meets the spirit of one o… read more

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24 Best nonfiction books like The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors by Lama Rod Owens

Transform Your Habits

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation

Angel Kyodo Williams , Lama Rod Owens , Jasmine Syedullah

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal

Dean Ornish , Rachel Naomi Remen

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

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8 best-selling history books like Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

Transform Your Habits

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Third University Is Possible (Forerunners: Ideas First)

La Paperson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes

4.64

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