11 must-read philosophy books like The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work by Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau

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The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

By: Joseph Campbell , Phil Cousineau

4.33

Format: 48 pages, cloth

The author of Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God series, and The Power of Myth here turns…

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Cover of The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung, Sonu Shamdasani, Mark Kyburz, John Peck

1. The Red Book: Liber Novus

By: C.G. Jung , Sonu Shamdasani , Mark Kyburz , John Peck

4.50

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called it his “confrontation with the un… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mythology
"You are a slave to what you need in your soul."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"Los antiguos vivían sus signos porque el mundo aún no se les había vuelto real."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"«Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»"

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

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2. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

By: Natalie Goldberg

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • writing
"keep your hand moving"

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

"Write about “leaving."

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

"Begin with “I remember."

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

"We learn writing by doing it."

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

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3. Ethics

By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Cover of The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffrey K. Liker

4. The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

By: Jeffrey K. Liker

4.07

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

"This book will give you an understanding of what has made Toyota successful and some practical ide… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Rules for a Knight

By: Ethan Hawke

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From Ethan Hawke, four-time Academy Award nominee--twice for writing and twice for acting--an unfor… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Jolande Jacobi, Aniela Jaffé, Joseph L. Henderson, John    Freeman

6. 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
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mythology
"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

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7. The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness

By: Maureen Murdock

4.04

Format: 9 pages,

This workbook guides readers through the heroine's journey--the quest to heal the deep wounding of … read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • writing
  • mythology
Cover of When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself by Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert, None

8. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

By: Steve Corbett , Brian Fikkert , None

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, r… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

By: Joseph Campbell , Phil Cousineau

4.33

Format: 48 pages, cloth

The author of Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God series, and The Power of Myth here turns… read more

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  • biography
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • writing
  • mythology
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10. The Essential Rumi

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumiincludes a new introduction by Coleman Barks… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Douglas Gillette, Robert L. Moore

11. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

By: Douglas Gillette , Robert L. Moore

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally di… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mythology

12. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World

By: Jack Weatherford

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

" As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for mak… read more

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13. 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

By: None , None , None

3.58

Format: None pages,

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14. The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

By: John Truby

4.26

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • writing
"Audiences love both the feeling part (reliving the life) and the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle) of a story. Every good story has both."

-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

"No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements."

-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

"Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the character to do what he did."

-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

"The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life condensed and heightened so that the audience can gain a better understanding of how lif…"

-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

15. The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

By: Lajos Egri , Gilbert Miller

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Among the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years, there have been few th… read more

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16. Modern Man in Search of a Soul

By: C.G. Jung

4.20

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology
"Is that which science calls the “psyche"

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

"Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook."

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses."

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

"Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious."

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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17. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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18. Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

By: António Damásio

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investig… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"In no way can interoception be regarded as a plain perceptual representation of the body inside the nervous system. There is, rather, an extensive commingling of signals. By now we should be clear ab…"

-António Damásio, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

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19. A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity

By: James Hollis

4.66

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

A Masterful Author and Jungian Analyst Examines the Qualities That Bring Meaning to Our Human Journ… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology
Cover of The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy by William Von Hippel

20. The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy

By: William Von Hippel

4.25

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

In the compelling popular science tradition of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel, a groundbreaking… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Loss of trust matters because distrust leads people to disengage from their communities, reduce commitment to their workplace and lose the degree to which they share important information with each o…"

-William Von Hippel, The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy

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21. Your Blood and Bones

By: J. Patricia Anderson

4.18

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

Kill the monsters when they’re found. No matter who they used to be. The girl with secret fea… read more

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16 Best nonfiction books like The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work by Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau

Transform Your Habits

The Red Book: Liber Novus

C.G. Jung , Sonu Shamdasani , Mark Kyburz , John Peck

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

Jeffrey K. Liker

4.07

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6 Best philosophy books like A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity by James Hollis

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

4.04

Transform Your Habits

A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity

James Hollis

4.66

Transform Your Habits

Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Kieran Setiya

3.58

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