12 Best philosophy books like The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece by Christopher D. Wallis

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The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece

By: Christopher D. Wallis

4.72

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

One thousand years ago, in the valley of Kashmir, a great Tantric master named Kshemaraja wrote his…

"The capacity to be the holiest of saints and the most heartless of killers exists within each of us. You may have heard this before, but take a moment to actually feel the truth of it within yourself. Such a feeling inspires us to embrace our own greatness on the one hand, yet also gives us greater compassion for the wicked on the other hand—for we know that there, but for the grace of God, go I."

-Christopher D. Wallis, The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece

"The capacity to be the holiest of saints and the most heartless of killers exists within each of us. You may have heard this before, but take a moment to actually feel the truth of it within yourself. Such a feeling inspires us to embrace our own greatness on the one hand, yet also gives us greater compassion for the wicked on the other hand—for we know that there, but for the grace of God, go I."

-Christopher D. Wallis, The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece

If you liked the philosophy plot in The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece by Christopher D. Wallis , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Tao of fully feeling: Harvesting forgiveness out of blame

By: Pete Walker

0.00

Format: 798 pages,

The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness Out of Blame, has been acclaimed by many therapist… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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2. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

By: David Deida

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for Men What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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3. Everyday Zen: Love and Work

By: Charlotte Joko Beck

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Zen guide to the problems of daily living, love, relationships, work, fear and suffering. Combini… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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4. The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1)

By: James Redfield

4.50

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The Celestine Prophecycontains secrets that are currently changing our world. Drawing on ancient wi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • spirituality
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5. Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

By: Stephen Mitchell , Byron Katie

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Out of nowhere, like a breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and "The Work… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook

6. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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7. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more

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8. Stepping Out of Self-Deception: The Buddha's Liberating Teaching of No-Self

By: Joseph Goldstein , Rodney Smith

4.01

Format: None pages,

Anattais the Buddhist teaching on the nonexistence of a permanent, independent self. It's a notorio… read more

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9. The Bhagavad Gita

By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more

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10. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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11. Fast Like a Girl

By: Mindy Pelz

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Includes a 30-Day fasting reset that uses the power of your cycle—even if you no longer have one! … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Be Here Now

By: Ram Dass

4.33

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Be here now."

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"Be here, now!"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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15. Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

By: Rupert Spira

4.32

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everybody is aware, all seven billion of us. We are aware of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and pe… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Awareness is inherently whole, complete and fulfilled in itself. Thus its nature is happiness itself--not a happiness that depends upon the condition of the mind, body or world, but a causeless joy t…"

-Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

"Our true nature of eternal, infinite awareness is never completely forgotten or eclipsed by objective experience. However agitated or numbed objective experience may have rendered our mind, the memor…"

-Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

"The apparently separate self or finite ‘I’ around whom all experience revolves is the true and only ‘I’ of eternal, infinite awareness – the ‘I’ of God’s infinite, self-aware being that shines in eac…"

-Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

"a mind that is accustomed to repeatedly dissolving in its source or essence becomes progressively saturated with its inherent peace. When such a mind rises again from the ocean of awareness, its acti…"

-Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)

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16. Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

By: Michael A. Singer

4.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The book you need right now is finally here! From beloved spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer—autho… read more

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  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
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17. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

By: Rob Fitzpatrick

4.37

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say y… read more

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  • audiobook
"The world’s most deadly fluff is: “I would definitely buy that."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Here’s the thing: only the market can tell if your idea is good. Everything else is just opinion."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Compliments are the fool’s gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and entirely worthless."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Trying to learn from customer conversations is like excavating a delicate archaeological site. The truth is down there somewhere, but it’s fragile."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

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18. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

By: Casey Means

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more

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  • audiobook
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19. 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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  • religion
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  • spirituality
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"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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20. The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece

By: Christopher D. Wallis

4.72

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

One thousand years ago, in the valley of Kashmir, a great Tantric master named Kshemaraja wrote his… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mysticism
  • hinduism
  • audiobook
"The capacity to be the holiest of saints and the most heartless of killers exists within each of us. You may have heard this before, but take a moment to actually feel the truth of it within yourself…"

-Christopher D. Wallis, The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece

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21. Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme

By: Lakshmanjoo

4.41

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This book, Kashmir the Secret Supreme, by the twentieth century's great philosopher saint Swami Lak… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • hinduism
  • spirituality
"Swatantrya Shakti is one with God consciousness. There are not two elements, such as the mirror and the object which is reflected in the mirror. The reflected and the reflection are one. The mirror w…"

-Lakshmanjoo, Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme

"Their vision, their perception, heretofore limited, becomes unlimited. The mode of their actions becomes absolutely unique. They see each and every action in their God consciousness. They exist in th…"

-Lakshmanjoo, Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme

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