5 Best buddhism books like Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America by Helen Tworkov

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Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America

By: Helen Tworkov

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the woman who helped introduce Buddhism to the West and founded Tricycle magazine comes a bril…

If you liked the buddhism plot in Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America by Helen Tworkov , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

By: Chögyam Trungpa

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the comm… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • spirituality
"Eventually we must give up trying to be something special."

-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

"As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music."

-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

"As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation."

-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

"Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral."

-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

2. Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love

By: Brad Gooch

3.19

Format: None pages, ebook

The acclaimed New York Timesbestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery,and City Poetdelivers the fir… read more

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3. 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
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • spirituality
"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

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4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • spirituality
"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

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5. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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6. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

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7. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

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8. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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9. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • spirituality
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10. Nonfiction

By: Julie Myerson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more

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Cover of The Full Moon Coffee Shop (The Full Moon Coffee Shop, #1) by Mai Mochizuki

11. The Full Moon Coffee Shop (The Full Moon Coffee Shop, #1)

By: Mai Mochizuki

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of c… read more

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12. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By: Amanda Jones

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur

13. 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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  • buddhism
  • biography
  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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14. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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15. The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

By: Mark Epstein

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year's w… read more

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  • buddhism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • spirituality
Cover of The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson

16. The High Sierra: A Love Story

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

4.27

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Off the Air

By: Christina Estes

3.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Emmy Award winning reporter Christina Estes introdu… read more

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"His eyes conduct a polygraph of my face."

-Christina Estes, Off the Air

"My serial killer radar starts screaming."

-Christina Estes, Off the Air

"Might I interest you in murder and a meal?"

-Christina Estes, Off the Air

"Attention is the drug of choice in local news."

-Christina Estes, Off the Air

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18. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of A New Lease on Death (Supernatural Mysteries, #1) by Olivia Blacke

20. A New Lease on Death (Supernatural Mysteries, #1)

By: Olivia Blacke

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this darkly funny supernatural mystery about an unlikely crime-solving duo that launches a comme… read more

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Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

21. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

22. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America by Helen Tworkov

23. Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America

By: Helen Tworkov

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the woman who helped introduce Buddhism to the West and founded Tricycle magazine comes a bril… read more

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  • buddhism
  • biography
  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey

24. Peggy

By: Rebecca Godfrey

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the a… read more

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Cover of This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder by Alan Townsend

25. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • spirituality
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

26. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

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Cover of The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors by Banning Lyon

28. The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors

By: Banning Lyon

4.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incredible memoir about one man’s journey to heal from trauma through chosen family, friendship,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Earth to Moon: A Memoir by Moon Unit Zappa

29. Earth to Moon: A Memoir

By: Moon Unit Zappa

4.42

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Betrayal at Blackthorn Park (Evelyne Redfern, #2) by Julia  Kelly

30. Betrayal at Blackthorn Park (Evelyne Redfern, #2)

By: Julia Kelly

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

With mystery, intrigue, and the hints of romance international bestselling author Julia Kelly is kn… read more

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Cover of The Mystics Would Like a Word: Six Women Who Met God and Found a Spirituality for Today by Shannon K. Evans

31. The Mystics Would Like a Word: Six Women Who Met God and Found a Spirituality for Today

By: Shannon K. Evans

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Discover a rich legacy of audacious women who forged a spirituality that is more inclusive, surpris… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

6 best-selling religion books like Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America by Helen Tworkov

Transform Your Habits

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Chögyam Trungpa

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Tara Brach

4.16

Transform Your Habits

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Sebastian Junger

3.92

Transform Your Habits

In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

Yongey Mingyur

4.30

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Transform Your Habits

The Last Word

Elly Griffiths

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Cracked Mirror

Chris Brookmyre

4.07

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