A Simple Path: Basic Buddhist Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
10 best books like A Simple Path: Basic Buddhist Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Dalai Lama XIV): The House of God, Big Sur, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, Ego Is the Enemy, Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives, Revolution, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment, The First and Last Freedom, Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal, Words That Matter: A Little Book of Life Lessons
| Author | Samuel Shem |
| ISBN | 0385337388 |
The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know.
Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0140168125 |
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century,...
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
| Author | Rick Hanson |
| ISBN | 1572246952 |
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.
With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of...
| Author | Ryan Holiday |
| ISBN | 1591847818 |
“While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive, visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher...
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
| Author | Brian L. Weiss |
| ISBN | 0446520594 |
The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives. As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring...
| Author | Russell Brand |
| ISBN | 1101882913 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
We all know the system isn’t working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there’s nothing we can do: “It’s just the way things are.”
In this book, Russell...
Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
| Author | Deepak Chopra |
| ISBN | 0060878800 |
Bestselling author Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this gripping novel of the young prince who abandoned his inheritance to discover his true calling. This iconic journey changed the world forever, and the truths revealed continue to influence every corner of the globe today.
A...
| Author | Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| ISBN | 0060648317 |
Out of every "spiritual" book I have read, this one takes the cake. Krishnamurti takes a more philosophical and psychological approach to why we're miserable. Unlike most other books, Krishnamurti doesn't shove pseudo-wisdom in your face and tell you what you need to do to attain enlightenment. He...
| Author | Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| ISBN | 0062506498 |
Krishnamurti's last journal, spoken into a tape recorder at his home, Pine Cottage, in the Ojai Valley, brings the reader close to this renowned spiritual teacher. Dictated in the mornings, from his bed, undisturbed, Krishnamurti's observations are captured here in all their immediacy and candor,...
Words That Matter: A Little Book of Life Lessons
| Author | O, The Oprah Magazine |
| ISBN | 0061996335 |
O, The Oprah Magazine is celebrating its tenth anniversary with this powerful little book, which offers more than six hundred inspiring ideas and quotations selected from the pages of the magazine. Words That Matter is a gathering of some of the greatest wisdom to appear in the magazine over the last...
| Author | Cheryl Strayed |
| ISBN | 0345810872 |
From the best-selling author of Wild, a collection of quotes--drawn from the wide range of her writings--that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible to give as it is to receive.
Around the world, thousands of people have...
Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer
| Author | Albert Schweitzer |
| ISBN | 0883659271 |
ALBERT SCHWEITZER (1875-1965) was an Alsatian theologian, musician, and medical missionary. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
"I cannot but have Reverence for all that is called life. I cannot avoid compassion for everything that is called life. That is the beginning and foundation...
Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential
Is it possible to venture beyond daily living and experience heightened states of awareness? In his latest book, Deepak Chopra says that higher consciousness is available here and now.
“Metahuman helps us harvest peak experiences so we can see our truth and mold the universe’s...
Kindfulness: Be a true friend to yourself - with mindful self-compassion
Do you criticise yourself on a daily basis? Are you always comparing yourself to others? Kindfulness is there for you. This practical, uplifting guide combines the two hot topics of the moment: mindfulness and self-compassion. From the author of Mindfulness on the Go and Mindfulness for Worriers,...
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being
| Author | Richard G. Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 0525561226 |
A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skin
Why are people more relaxed and at ease with each other in some countries than others? Why do we worry so much about what others think of us and often feel social life is a stressful performance? Why is mental...
The Big Book of Less: Finding Joy in Living Lighter
| Author | Irene Smit |
| ISBN | 1523506288 |
From Flow, a beautiful, mindful guide to having less stuff. Less stress. Less distraction. Less everything.
In less comes the freedom of letting go. This thoughtful and surprising book shows us how to get there, by paring down not just the jumble of things around us, but the clutter in our heads,...
Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories
| Author | Brian L. Weiss |
| ISBN | 0062201247 |
In his revolutionary book Miracles Happen, Brian Weiss M.D., the New York Times bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters, examines the physical, emotional, and spiritual healing that is possible when you freely accept and embrace the reality of reincarnation. Trained as a traditional psychotherapist,...
A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
| Author | Jaed Coffin |
| ISBN | 0306815265 |
Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England's privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakram--thus fulfilling a familial obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement,...
