9 Top philosophy books like Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us by Simone Weil

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Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

By: Simone Weil

4.20

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God. Why is …

"Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void."

-Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

"Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void."

-Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

"[God] created beings capable of love from all possible distances. Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this agony beyond all others, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed."

-Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

"[God] created beings capable of love from all possible distances. Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this agony beyond all others, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed."

-Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

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1. The Brothers K

By: David James Duncan

4.39

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

Duncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River… read more

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  • religion
"I started having doubts right on top of my certainty."

-David James Duncan, The Brothers K

"I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity."

-David James Duncan, The Brothers K

"We can't possibly know—and thank goodness not! What most of us become as adults would terrify us as children."

-David James Duncan, The Brothers K

"Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake."

-David James Duncan, The Brothers K

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2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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3. The Quest of the Holy Grail

By: Anonymous , Unknown , Pauline Matarasso

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a … read more

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4. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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5. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Man and His Symbols

By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

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7. Revelations of Divine Love

By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
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8. The Piano Teacher

By: Joachim Neugroschel , Elfriede Jelinek

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The Piano Teacher,the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize i… read more

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9. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

10. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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11. Homo videns: La sociedad teledirigida

By: Giovanni Sartori

4.50

Format: 191 pages,

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12. As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God

By: Eugene H. Peterson

4.04

Format: None pages,

Living Out the Word Made Flesh Sixty years ago I found myself distracted, Eugene Peterson writes. A… read more

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13. Hinds' Feet on High Places

By: Hannah Hurnard

3.67

Format: 220 pages,

Hinds' Feet on High Placesis one of Hannah Hurnard's best known and best loved books. This book is … read more

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14. Septology

By: Jon Fosse

4.52

Format: 825 pages, Paperback

The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"

-Jon Fosse, Septology

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15. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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16. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

By: Will Storr

4.14

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."

-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"

-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"

-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

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17. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

By: Richard Rohr

4.45

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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18. Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)

By: J.F. Martel

4.42

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journ… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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19. The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

By: Wolfram Eilenberger

3.92

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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20. Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

By: Simone Weil

4.20

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God. Why is … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
  • catholic
  • mysticism
"Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void."

-Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

"[God] created beings capable of love from all possible distances. Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance betwee…"

-Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

"God is not present, even if we invoke him, where the afflicted are merely regarded as an occasion for doing good. They may even be loved on this account, but then they are in their natural role, the …"

-Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

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21. The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

By: David R. Montgomery

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A riveting exploration of how microbes are transforming the way we see nature and ourselves - and c… read more

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  • nonfiction

11 must-read nonfiction books like Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us by Simone Weil

Transform Your Habits

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Man and His Symbols

C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Revelations of Divine Love

Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing

4.20

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22 must-read nonfiction books like The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by David R. Montgomery

Transform Your Habits

The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Transform Your Habits

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Mismeasure of Man

Stephen Jay Gould

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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