7 must-read buddhism books like The Promise of Kuan Yin: Wisdom, Miracles, & Compassion by Martin Palmer

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The Promise of Kuan Yin: Wisdom, Miracles, & Compassion

By: Martin Palmer

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The best and most comprehensive book on the most important and best-loved Chinese goddess. Walk dow…

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1. Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

By: Joanna Macy , Chris Johnstone

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"By strengthening our compassion, we give fuel to our courage and determination."

-Joanna Macy, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

"By refreshing our sense of belonging in the world, we widen the web of relationships that nourishes us and protects us from burnout."

-Joanna Macy, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

"In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually r…"

-Joanna Macy, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

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2. Goddesses in Everywoman

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"В действительности архетипы не имеют имён, и образы богинь полезны только тогда, когда они соответствуют женским ощущениям и чувствам"

-Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman

"The individuation journey — the psychological quest for wholeness — ends in the union of opposites; in the inner marriage of “masculine"

-Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman

"O pilar e o anel em forma de círculo representam os princípios masculino e feminino. Na Grécia antiga o pilar era o "hérnia" que ficava do lado de fora da casa representando Hermes, enquanto a lareir…"

-Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman

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3. Black Swan Green

By: David Mitchell

3.97

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of… read more

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"Trees're always a relief, after people."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"His skin was blotched as a dying banana."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"The song instantly insisted it'd never existed."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

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4. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler

4.31

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. … read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."

-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."

-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

"I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it."

-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

"Mindful observation is based on the principle of “non-duality"

-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

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5. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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6. The Dance Of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

By: Harriet Lerner

3.94

Format: None pages,

"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to,"writes Dr. Harriet Lerner, in her renowned classic t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Becoming Kuan Yin: The Evolution of Compassion

By: Stephen Levine , Ondrea Levine

2.55

Format: 48 pages,

In his long career as a poet, Buddhist teacher, spiritual advisor, and writer, Stephen Levine has c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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8. Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literat… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

9. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The Essence of the Heart Sutra: The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Thupten Jinpa

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

For more than two thousand years, the Heart Sutra has been part of the daily life of millions of Bu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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11. Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation

By: Hank Wesselman , Sandra Ingerman

3.84

Format: 736 pages,

Today, practicing shamanism doesn't mean you have to live in a rain forest or a desert. Thanks to a… read more

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12. The Dhammapada

By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more

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13. Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die

By: None

2.75

Format: None pages,

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14. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

By: Michael Dylan Foster , None

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and … read more

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15. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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16. Fledgling

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young… read more

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17. Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

By: Philip Glass , Thubten Yeshe , Jonathan Landaw

3.50

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

This introduction recognizes and explains how to channel the powerful energies aroused by human des… read more

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18. A Time to Keep Silence

By: Karen Armstrong , Patrick Leigh Fermor

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classi… read more

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19. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

By: Noa Tishby

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more

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"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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20. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

By: Rutger Bregman

4.22

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

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21. The Narrator

By: K.L. Slater

3.88

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the chance of a perfect life… put your daughter in grave danger? Being a single mother i… read more

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22. Lilith

By: Nikki Marmery

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North, Lilith is the story of the first woman, who w… read more

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"For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it."

-Nikki Marmery, Lilith

"In time we came to the point that most closely concerned [the women]: that all life is precious, but Creation is a power to be used sparingly, not relentlessly, without care or concern for their heal…"

-Nikki Marmery, Lilith

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23. Wild Mercy

By: Mirabai Starr

4.25

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of ye… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Our capacity to forgive is our superpower."

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

"When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of no…"

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

"The more you turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. when you sit in. silence and turn your gaze toward the holy mystery you once called God, the mystery follows you back out into the wor…"

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

"Mystics seem to have no shame about contradicting themselves left and right. They blithely proclaim that the cure for pain is in the pain itself and that the cry of longing is the sigh of merging. Th…"

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

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24. How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

3.87

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written In a world wh… read more

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"The reward of friendship is friendship itself."

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

"Quanto più uno ha fiducia in sé, quanto più è armato di virtù e di saggezza, in modo da non aver bisogno di nessuno e da considerare ogni suo bene un fatto interiore, tanto più eccelle nel cercare e …"

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

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25. My Perfect Daughter

By: Sarah A. Denzil

4.12

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

Most mothers hope their little girl turns out like their dad, but not Zoe. She hopes the apple fall… read more

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26. Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

By: Joe Dispenza

4.26

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"It’s not the gene that creates disease but the environment that programs our genes to create disease"

-Joe Dispenza, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

"If you keep the same routine as yesterday, it makes sense that your tomorrow is going to be a lot like your yesterday."

-Joe Dispenza, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

"The only way we can change our lives is to change our energy — to change the electromagnetic field we are constantly broadcasting. In other words, to change our state of being, we have to change how …"

-Joe Dispenza, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

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27. The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman

By: Danielle Dulsky

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Ode to Our Wild Feminine Souls This provocative book invites you to create your own spiritual path… read more

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  • spirituality
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28. The Promise of Kuan Yin: Wisdom, Miracles, & Compassion

By: Martin Palmer

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The best and most comprehensive book on the most important and best-loved Chinese goddess. Walk dow… read more

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  • spirituality
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29. Tara

By: Rachael Wooten

4.43

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A practical guide for invoking the power and blessings of Tara, the beloved female buddha of Tibet … read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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30. The Kuan Yin Oracle

By: Stephen Karcher

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Kuan Yin, the Compassionate One or literally 'the one who sees and hears the cries of the world' is… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

Joanna Macy , Chris Johnstone

4.11

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Jean Shinoda Bolen

4.14

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Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Dalai Lama XIV , Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler

4.31

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Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises From The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle

4.15

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Neville Goddard

4.29

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Sue Morter

4.03

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