9 must-read buddhism books like The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude by Thubten Chodron

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Similar categories in Joanna Macy's Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"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

Similar categories in Dalai Lama XIV's The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"What the Dalai Lama and I are offering,"

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

"It is not happiness that makes us grateful, it’s gratefulness that makes us happy."

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

"The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience."

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

"Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. - Viktor Frankl quoted by Desmond Tutu"

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Similar categories in Christopher McDougall's Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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• health

Similar categories in Marie Kondō's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's Living Buddha, Living Christ book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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Similar categories in Dalai Lama XIV's The Essence of the Heart Sutra: The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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Similar categories in Graham Greene's The Quiet American book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

Similar categories in Koushun Takami's Battle Royale book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

Similar categories in Pema Chödrön's Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

Similar categories in Hope Jahren's Lab Girl book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

Similar categories in Dan Harris's 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's How to Eat (Mindfulness Essentials, #2) book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

Similar categories in Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"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

Similar categories in Cait Flanders's The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"I wanted to be surrounded by those who valued living over working, Spending time outdoors over spending time online, and doing things for themselves over paying for every possible convenience"

-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

"Stuff I purchased with every intention of using, but only because I told myself it would somehow help. I wasn't good enough, but this stuff would make me better. I wanted to read, wear, and do everyt…"

-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

"I couldn't ever blame them for trying to get me to shop with them or ship for myself or simply enjoy my money - this was a behavior many people learned and exhibited in all kinds of circumstances in …"

-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

Similar categories in Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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• nonfiction
• health

"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

Similar categories in Richard Powers's The Overstory book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

Similar categories in Nedra Glover Tawwab's Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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• health

"We don't naturally fall into perfect relationship; we create them"

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

"I’m not doing this to disrespect you. I’m doing this to respect myself."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

"Assume that people know only what you tell them, honor only what you request, and can't read your mind."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

Similar categories in Caroline Criado Pérez's Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Similar categories in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Notes on Grief book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

Similar categories in Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Woman of Light book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

"The fact that the protection she craved from men was mostly to ward off incidents with other men frightened her."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light

"Mama had once told Luz that being raped was worse than being murdered. And Luz wondered how that could be. To be raped and to live seemed more desirable than to no longer exist. Luz did not want to f…"

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light

Similar categories in Francesca Ekwuyasi's Butter Honey Pig Bread book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

"Death is only a doorway."

-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"Sometimes even if we think we want to be heard, we're not always ready for it."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

"We can make the most of the Earth and benefit from its beauty, but in such a way that we respect the Earth, just as a bee respects the flower."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

"You trust that you contain the whole cosmos; you are made of stars. And that is why you respect yourself and offer reverence to yourself. And, when you look at another person, you see that they are a…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

"This is the attitude of bodhisattvas: to practice meditation not only for yourself, but for the world, to relieve the suffering. And, when others suffer less, you suffer less. When you suffer less, t…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

Similar categories in Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"The richest 1 per cent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity."

-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

"The transformation we need in order to stay below 1.5 C or even 2 C of warming may not be politically possible today. But we are the ones who determine what will be politically possible tomorrow."

-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

Similar categories in Dalai Lama XIV's Approaching the Buddhist Path (1) (The Library of Wisdom and Compassion) book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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"The fundamental nature of the mind is pure and stable. The innate, subtle mind of clear light, which is the basis of the cultivation of positive states of mind, is stable in that it continues eternal…"

-Dalai Lama XIV, Approaching the Buddhist Path (1) (The Library of Wisdom and Compassion)

Similar categories in Katy Bowman's Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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• health

"The way we move direct influences how our bodies are shaped."

-Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

"We tend to give much less consideration to how we feel. But how you feel is the earliest indicator of your health on a cellular level."

-Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

"Science does a great job at reducing variables until they are small enough to be understood, but we aren't doing a great job at reassembling the picture once it has been broken down into a thousand p…"

-Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

Similar categories in Dalai Lama XIV's Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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• spirituality

Similar categories in Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude book and Thubten Chodron's The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

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• health
• food
• nonfiction
• spirituality