20 must-read nonfiction books like Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within by Joel F. Harrington

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Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within

By: Joel F. Harrington

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Life and times of the 14th century German theologian Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal pa…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within by Joel F. Harrington , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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2. 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
  • theology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mysticism
"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

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3. Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Scott Anderson

4.08

Format: 577 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th cent… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was that Jews somewhere were going to suffer."

-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

"In a clever retort, alluding to both his considerable girth and to his network of influential friends abroad, the agronomist replied, “Your Excellency, the weight of my body would break the gallows w…"

-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

"History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce…"

-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

"Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them…"

-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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4. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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5. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)

By: T.H. White

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Once upon a time, a young boy called "Wart" was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation f… read more

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6. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

By: None , Bela Shayevich

4.29

Format: 192 pages,

From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

By: William Taubman

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

By: Stuart Jeffries

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the F… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

9. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

By: Martin Bunton

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles… read more

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10. The Practice of the Presence of God

By: Brother Lawrence

4.32

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0883681056 can be found here Brother Lawrence was a man of hum… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."

-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

"We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure."

-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

" Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. There, in the stillness, to listen to His voice, perhaps in petition or only to listen. It matters …"

-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

"That with him the set times of prayer were not different from other times: that he retired to pray, according to the directions of his Superior, but that he did not want such retirement. nor ask for …"

-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

11. The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counseling

By: Anonymous , William Johnston , Huston Smith

3.69

Format: 176 pages,

Originally written in Middle English by an unknown mystic of the fourteenth century, The Cloud of U… read more

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12. Selected Writings

By: Meister Eckhart , Oliver Davies

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meiste… read more

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13. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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14. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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15. The Winter Soldier

By: Daniel Mason

3.99

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Euro… read more

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16. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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17. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • philosophy
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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18. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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19. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind

By: Jason M. Baxter

4.51

Format: None pages, Audio CD

C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an auth… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • theology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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20. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

By: David de Jong

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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21. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.94

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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22. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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23. Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness

By: Michael S. Heiser

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

2020 Center for Biblical Studies Finalist for Biblical Theology The truth about demons is far stran… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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24. Was ist Metaphysik?

By: Martin Heidegger

3.91

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

"Was ist Metaphysik?" ist der Titel der öffentlichen Antrittsvorlesung Martin Heidegger an der Univ… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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25. Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless Soul

By: Jon M. Sweeney

4.45

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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26. Meditations on Death: Preparing for Eternity

By: Thomas à Kempis

4.58

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Thinking on death is the most profitable meditation we can make. Indeed, Our Lord’s most holy pass… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
  • theology
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27. Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest

By: Ken Layne

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave--its myths a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

By: John Cassian

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one Distraction isn’t a new problem. We… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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29. The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology

By: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

3.98

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Book by Pseudo-Dionysius Aeropagite, Jones, John D. read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mysticism
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30. Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within

By: Joel F. Harrington

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Life and times of the 14th century German theologian Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal pa… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • european history
  • mysticism
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31. The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing

By: Bernard McGinn

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Centuries after his work as a preacher, philosopher, and spiritual guide, Meister Eckhart remains o… read more

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  • biography
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mysticism

11 must-read history books like Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within by Joel F. Harrington

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Aldous Huxley

4.12

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Scott Anderson

4.08

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

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None , Bela Shayevich

4.29

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