Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
By: John Vervaeke
4.85
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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1. The Perennial Philosophy
By: Aldous Huxley
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reali… read more
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- history
- psychology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"Organized and balanced disunity is the necessary condition of liberty."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
"We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
"In other words, the highest form of the love of God is an immediate spiritual intuition, by which 'knower, known and knowledge are made one."-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
2. The Courage to Be
By: Paul Tillich , Peter J. Gomes
4.09
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"Le courage d'être s'enracine dans le Dieu qui apparaît quand Dieu a disparu dans l'angoisse du doute."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"في الحقبة الحديثة انطلق العلم يفجر الطاقات الكامنة في الانسان منذ نهاية العصور الوسطى، لكن العلم انقلب على الانسان لأن الإنسان استغله لاستعباد الانسان."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
3. Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
By: Mary Doria Russell
4.09
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into th… read more
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- religion
- audiobook
"How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?"-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
"And you believe you will succeed, where God has failed me?"-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
"The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it."-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
"Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief."-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
4. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- 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
5. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
6. Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge & Its Transmission Through Myth
By: Giorgio de Santillana , None , Hertha von Dechen
4.16
Format: None pages,
Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology & s… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- religion
- history
7. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
8. 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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- psychology
- philosophy
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- 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
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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- history
- psychology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
10. On Bullshit
By: Harry G. Frankfurt
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more
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11. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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12. The Seven Storey Mountain
By: Thomas Merton , Robert Giroux , William H. Shannon
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influenti… read more
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13. The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
By: Marc Lewis
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned … read more
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14. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
15. A Confession
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.10
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in proc… read more
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"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me."-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him"-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature…"-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
16. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
17. The Master and Margarita
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None
4.29
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more
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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
18. $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
By: Alex Hormozi
4.59
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Here’s exactly what this book will show you how to do: How To Charge a Lot More Than You Currently… read more
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- psychology
"Aligning with other’s self interest is easier than persuading them to do what you want."-Alex Hormozi, $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
19. A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more
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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
20. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.80
Format: 1500 pages, Hardcover
Is the world essentially inert and mechanical - nothing but a collection of things for us to use? A… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"On the left hemisphere of the brain: 'Because it knows less, it thinks it knows everything."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Cynicism appears to be a coping strategy by the cognitively less gifted to avoid being duped by others."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"To Heraclitus it was the logos; to Lao Tzu the tao; to Confucius lǐ; in Hinduism Brahman, and to the Vedic tradition Ṛta; in Zen ri; o Arabic peoples, since pre-Islamic times, Allah; to Hebrews YHWH.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Wittgenstein wrote: 'To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.' And he continued: 'To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end o…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
21. Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
By: John Vervaeke
4.85
Format: None pages, Audiobook
We are in the midst of a mental health crisis. There are increases in anxiety disorders, depression… read more
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