Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Personal Spiritual Life
10 best books like Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Personal Spiritual Life (Surya Das): Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, Queen Sugar, The Essential Rumi, What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives, The Mistress Of Nothing, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
| Author | Tara Brach |
| ISBN | 0553380990 |
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become...
| Author | Natalie Baszile |
| ISBN | 0670026131 |
A mother-daughter story of reinvention—about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana
Why exactly Charley Bordelon’s late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous....
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.
Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range...
What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
| Author | Richard Nelson Bolles |
| ISBN | 1580087949 |
I had imagined this would be a simple guide helping people to gain employment, little did I realise that this was all to the greater glory of God and would have nothing to do with parachutes.
"God loves a Trinity", the particularly irritating little kid who used to regularly beat me at chess when...
Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types
| Author | David Keirsey |
| ISBN | 0960695400 |
I have been using the 16 types as an analytical social tool for over a decade, as taught by my Jungian-influenced father. The authors here do credit Jung at moments, but they tend to ignore, underestimate, or occasionally outright reject many Jungian principles in favour of other theories. These newer...
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
| Author | Dan Millman |
| ISBN | 1932073205 |
Way of the Peaceful Warrior is based on the story of Dan Millman, a world champion athlete, who journeys into realms of romance and magic, light and darkness, body, mind, and spirit. Guided by a powerful old warrior named Socrates and tempted by an elusive, playful woman named Joy, Dan is led toward a final...
| Author | Kate Pullinger |
| ISBN | 1846687098 |
Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd menage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down...
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0060790598 |
The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity.
Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art...
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0824525434 |
For Christians seeking a way of thinking outside of strict dualities, this guide explores methods for letting go of division and living in the present. Drawn from the Gospels, Jesus, Paul, and the great Christian contemplatives, this examination reveals how many of the hidden truths of Christianity...
The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith
| Author | Gabrielle Bernstein |
| ISBN | 1401946542 |
In her latest book,
The Universe Has Your Back
, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches readers how to transform their fear into faith in order to live a divinely guided life. Each story and lesson in the book guides readers to release the blocks to what they most long for: happiness,...
Describes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga & gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of human nature. Illustrated.
The book is divided into four sections:
Journey: The Transformation: Dr Richard Alpert, PhD into Baba...
| Author | The RZA |
| ISBN | 1594488851 |
A unique book of wisdom and experience that reaches from the most violent slums of New York City to the highest planes of spiritual thought by the RZA, hip-hop?s most exalted wise man.
The RZA, the Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan and hip-hop culture?s most dynamic genius, imparts the lessons he?s learned...
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0060777109 |
In deep retirement in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0938077872 |
The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhammapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya,...
Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence
| Author | David Keirsey |
| ISBN | 1885705026 |
Phenomenon: Keirsey and Bates's Please Understand Me, first published in 1978, sold nearly 2 million copies in its first 20 years, becoming a perennial best seller all over the world. Advertised only by word of mouth, the book became a favorite training and counseling guide in many institutions --...
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1570628394 |
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön...
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 0140194614 |
What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or do they help foster it? In Myths to Live By, Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process...
| Author | Pierre Berton |
| ISBN | 0850529883 |
One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp known as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of fighting: they had seized the...
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the ESPN.com Sports Desk
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0684873206 |
SPORTS, POLITICS, AND SEX COLLIDE IN HUNTER S. THOMPSON'S WILDLY POPULAR ESPN.COM COLUMNS.
Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a century, Hunter S. Thompson devastated...
| Author | Maria Turtschaninoff |
| ISBN | 9515234719 |
Den tredje boken i Maria Turtschaninoffs fantasyvärld utspelar sig flera generationer efter Arra och Anaché. På en liten ö ligger Röda klostret, en tillflyktsort för förföljda och utsatta flickor och kvinnor från alla de kända länderna. Där bevaras hemlig kunskap om Gudinnan med hennes...
The Science of Being Well
| Author | Wallace D. Wattles |
| ISBN | 1604593423 |
O.M.G. I cannot believe this book was written in the early 1900s!!! Everything Wallace Wattles says is so completely relevant to today it's astounding. Had we all just listened to him then, we would be in much better shape. Stop eating mindlessly and think about your food. Don't eat until you have EARNED...
Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators
| Author | Guy Armstrong |
| ISBN | 1614293635 |
If everything is empty, then what ceases in Nirvana and is born in rebirth? How can you live in the world without feeling trapped by it? Guy Armstrong tackles these questions and more in this richly informed, practical guide to emptiness for the meditator.
It may seem odd for emptiness to...
Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life
| Author | Daymond John |
| ISBN | 0804189951 |
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Power of Broke
and "Shark" on ABC's hit show
Shark Tank
explores how grit, persistence, and good old-fashioned hard work are the backbone of every successful business and individual, and inspires readers to
Rise & Grind
their way the top.
Daymond...
| Author | Sujata Massey |
| ISBN | 0060899212 |
It's Tough to Keep Cool When the Heat Is On
Japanese-American Rei Shimura finally has a life to be proud of in Tokyo: running her own antiques business and living with her Scottish lawyer boyfreind. But when Rei overpays for a beautiful chest of drawers, she's in for the worst deal of her life....
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1611806321 |
Best-selling American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön presents a friendly and encouraging guide to spiritual practice for all those who want to take up the path of the bodhisattva--one who aspires to live life with courage, generosity, patience, fearlessness, and compassion.
The Way of the...
The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973
| Author | Tino Balio |
| ISBN | 0299247945 |
Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L’Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market...
The Wisdom of Letting Go: The Path of the Wounded Soul
| Author | Leo Booth |
| ISBN | 0757307914 |
Spiritual leader Leo Booth knows that many of us are searching for ways to move beyond trauma, beyond old messages, and beyond the limitations of obsessive behavior. Inspired by his numerous workshops, The Wisdom of Letting Go seeks to answer the complicated question "How do we let go of the unhealthy...
Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
| Author | Sakyong Mipham |
| ISBN | 0307888169 |
A unique fitness program from a highly respected spiritual leader that blends physical and spiritual practice for everyone - regardless of age, spiritual background, or ability - to great benefits for both body and soul.
As a Tibetan lama and leader of Shambhala (an international community...
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
| Author | Martin Luther King Jr. |
Created as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader's speeches, sermons, and writings. Selected and introduced by Coretta Scott King, this book helps keep the dream...
| Author | David Bordwell |
| ISBN | 0415977797 |
Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are...
