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 …
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1. Healing the Shame that Binds You
By: John Bradshaw
4.09
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
“I used to drink,” writes John Bradshaw, “to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I dran… read more
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- relationships
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- spirituality
- self help
"Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are."-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
"Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive."-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
"True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love."-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
"Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically."-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
2. Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
By: Pema Chödrön
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Is it possible to live well when the very ground we stand on is shaky? Yes, says everyone's favorit… read more
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- personal development
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"Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news."-Pema Chödrön, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
"If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your st…"-Pema Chödrön, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
"We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfix…"-Pema Chödrön, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
"When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality…"-Pema Chödrön, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
3. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more
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"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
4. Insight Meditation: A Psychology of Freedom
By: Joseph Goldstein
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The fruit of some twenty years' experience leading Buddhist meditation retreats, this book touches … read more
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5. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
By: None , Mark Epstein
4.04
Format: 226 pages,
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego… read more
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6. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
By: Richard Rohr
4.23
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
In Falling Upward , Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves o… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- psychology
- self help
"The ego hates losing – even to God."-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
"Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing."-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
"Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101."-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
"Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable."-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
7. The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
By: Jack Kornfield
3.77
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshak… read more
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8. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
By: Pema Chödrön , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness… read more
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9. A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
By: Jack Kornfield
3.64
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A guide to reconciling Buddhist spirituality with the American way of life addresses the challenges… read more
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10. After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
By: Jack Kornfield
5.00
Format: 29 pages,
"Enlightenment does exist," internationally renowned author and meditation master Jack Kornfield as… read more
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11. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
By: Tara Brach
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more
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- buddhism
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- nonfiction
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"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
12. Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion
By: Daniel Goleman
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A practical and soul-stirring guide to meditation that offers a much-needed antidote to the forces … read more
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"Chapter 2: Drop it! From page 9 "If you can't change anything, why worry? And if you can change something, why worry? - Tibetan saying"-Daniel Goleman, Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion
"Chapter 3: Belly-breathing (from page 24) I call this understanding the three speed limits: the physical speed limit, the mental speed limit, and the feeling or energetic speed limit. The body has it…"-Daniel Goleman, Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion
"Chapter 8: a deeper look within (from pages 175-176) Permanence might sound somehow grand and strange—we know in the back of our minds that somehow things aren't actually endless. Yet we forget our b…"-Daniel Goleman, Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion
13. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
14. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more
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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
15. 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
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"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
16. Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion
By: Koshin Paley Ellison
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Though we are seemingly more connected to our world than ever before, many of us cannot ignore a na… read more
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- self help
17. The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life
By: Lisa Miller
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Whether it’s meditation or a walk in nature, reading a sacred text or saying a prayer, there are ma… read more
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18. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
19. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
By: Jami Attenberg
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more
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20. 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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21. True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
By: Tara Brach
4.21
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old… read more
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"Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path."-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
"Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit."-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
"You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh…"-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
"Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fe…"-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
22. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
By: Chris J. Anderson
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more
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23. Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
By: Tara Brach
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult… read more
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24. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
By: Pico Iyer
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more
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25. Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
By: Mariel Buqué
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma—weaving together scient… read more
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"Take the Intergenerational ACES Questionnaire."-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
"Take the Intergenerational ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Questionnaire."-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
"Three core areas became the focus: (1) What happened to you? (2) What happened before you? and (3) What happened around you?"-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
26. 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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27. Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
By: Lama Rod Owens
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Reconsidering the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberatio… read more
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"The body tells the truth regardless of if we speak its language or not. ... Often my practice has focused on trying to meet my body where it is, instead of constantly trying to get it to meet me wher…"-Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
28. The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation
By: Narayan Helen Liebenson
4.38
Format: 224 pages, ebook
In her long-awaited debut, a beloved master teacher shows us how to move from the “constant squeeze… read more
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"Pleasure reflects something deeper than itself."-Narayan Helen Liebenson, The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation
"Pleasure reflects something deeper than itself. It is an echo of greater possibilities."-Narayan Helen Liebenson, The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation
"In recognition of the magnanimous heart ... [o]ur engagement with participation in the world begins to shift from viewing this world as a field of consumption to experiencing this world as a field of…"-Narayan Helen Liebenson, The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation
29. 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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30. The Heroic Heart: Awakening Unbound Compassion
By: Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
4.56
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
A guidebook to making life meaningful by cultivating compassion, embracing adversity, and training … read more
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31. 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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