9 Top spirituality books like Heart of Who We Are by Caverly Morgan

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Heart of Who We Are

By: Caverly Morgan

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Awareness practices and contemplative technologies that transform our understanding of ourselves an…

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Cover of The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams

1. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Desmond Tutu , Douglas Carlton Abrams

4.38

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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2. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Waves are the practice of the water."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

3. What We Lose

By: Zinzi Clemmons

3.67

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman comin… read more

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4. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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5. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

By: Michael A. Singer

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can y… read more

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6. The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more

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"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

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7. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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8. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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9. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

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10. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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11. Our Country Friends

By: Gary Shteyngart

3.21

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotion… read more

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"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Russian was a language built around the exhalation of warmth and pain...."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

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12. These Precious Days: Essays

By: Ann Patchett

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more

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  • nonfiction
"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

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13. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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14. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

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15. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

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"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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16. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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17. 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
  • spirituality
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18. Joan Is Okay

By: Weike Wang

3.67

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be… read more

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"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

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19. Thistlefoot

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.96

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more

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"what is a memory if not a ghost?"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

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20. Four Treasures of the Sky

By: Jenny Tinghui Zhang

4.08

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and… read more

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"In calligraphy, as in life, we do not retouch strokes, Master Wang often said. We must accept that what is done is done."

-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

"An entire year has passed. Time is important. This I know now. As in, how much time has to pass for a forgetting to occur."

-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

"My life was written for me from the moment the name was given to me. Or it was not. That is the true beauty. That is the intent. We can practice all we want, telling and retelling the same story, but…"

-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

"At my most alone, I trace English letters in the dirt floor. Next to them, I write the Chinese characters that match their sounds. The one that puzzles me most is the English letter I, companion soun…"

-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

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21. Broken Horses

By: Brandi Carlile

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer, and six-time Grammy winner opens up about a l… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Love isn't a feeling. It's something we do, and a promise that we keep."

-Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses

"I understand who I am as an artist because I understand that I don’t understand who I am as an artist."

-Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses

"The people and events that had come along and healed me never went unnoticed. My dad pointed out recently that after my botched baptism, I started to gather people--congregants, squads, cheerleaders.…"

-Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses

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22. How We Live Is How We Die

By: Pema Chodron

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more

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  • spirituality
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23. Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)

By: Alice Hoffman

4.22

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hof… read more

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"Never watch another woman burn"

-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)

"For some, witchery was a choice, but not for them."

-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)

"Desire, if handled incorrectly, could become a curse."

-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)

"You feel your heart and bones and blood. You wait for him like a bird in a cage."

-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)

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24. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

By: Elena Ferrante

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more

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"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

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25. The Good Wife of Bath

By: Karen Brooks

4.20

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary cla… read more

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"I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion."

-Karen Brooks, The Good Wife of Bath

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26. Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing

By: David Richo

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Work with your triggers to find peace in the painful moments and lasting emotional well-being. P… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

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28. Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom

By: Sharon Salzberg

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Merging the insights of inspiring voices with her own understanding of mindfulness, New York Times … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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29. The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path

By: Norman Fischer

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An imaginative approach to spiritual practice in difficult times, through the Buddhist teaching of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"For bodhisattvas, it isn’t enough to get what you need and desire, to protect yourself and your family, to accumulate wealth, security, and reputation. It’s not that bodhisattvas are against any of t…"

-Norman Fischer, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path

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30. Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness

By: John J. Prendergast

4.59

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Your self, aware presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself;… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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31. Heart of Who We Are

By: Caverly Morgan

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Awareness practices and contemplative technologies that transform our understanding of ourselves an… read more

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  • spirituality

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Transform Your Habits

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Dalai Lama XIV , Desmond Tutu , Douglas Carlton Abrams

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Susan Cain

3.98

Transform Your Habits

These Precious Days: Essays

Ann Patchett

4.43

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The Swimmers

Julie Otsuka

3.67

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

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Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

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