God Speaks
10 best books like God Speaks (Meher Baba): Tales of the Hasidim, Vols 1-2, Selected Writings, The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol 4: Translation of Books III and IV, Songs of Milarepa, La voz del maestro, The Wisdom of China and India, The Bijak of Kabir, Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff, Psychosynthesis: A Manual of Principles and Techniques, Hsin Hsin Ming, the Book of Nothing: Discourses on the Faith Mind of Sosan
| Author | Martin Buber |
| ISBN | 0805209956 |
This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work Takes of the Hasidim, with a new foreword by Chaim Potok. Martin Buber devoted forty years of his life to collecting and retelling the legends of Hasidim. "Nowhere in the last centuries," wrote Buber in Hasidim and...
| Author | Meister Eckhart |
| ISBN | 0140433430 |
Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart...
A Commentary of the Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi (1969), Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
Nicholson's magnum opus was his work on Rumi's Masnavi, published in eight volumes between 1925 and 1940. He produced the first critical Persian edition of the Masnavi, the first full translation of it into English,...
| Author | Milarepa |
| ISBN | 0486428141 |
A Buddhist holy man whose songs have been sung and studied since the twelfth century, Milarepa exchanged a life of sin and maliciousness for one of contemplation and love, eventually reaching—according to his disciples—the ultimate state of enlightenment. His thousands of extemporaneously...
La voz del maestro habla en tono sentencioso e impresionante del triunfo de la fe sobre el dolor, y del amor sobre la soledad. El autor trata temas tan importantes y vitales como "la divinidad del hombre", "la razón y el conocimiento", "el amor y la igualdad", y lo hace en forma tal, que proporciona una...
"IT'S GOOD TO BE HEADLESS" (From Luyichi, Ninth Century)
In the time of Han Wuti (B.C. 140-87), Chia Yung of Ts'angwu was serving as magistrate of Yuchang. One day he went out to fight bandits. He was wounded and lost his head. Yung mounted his horse and returned to the camp. The soldiers and people...
"First the pain of separation, then the thirst for Love"
says Kabir, "only then will you know Joy of the Union".
Bijak: means a document containing sacred texts. And it is one of the earliest of the major texts in modern Hindi. Kabir suggested that True God is with the person who is on the...
Early in the 20th century there was this enigmatic man espousing esoteric theories who some how gained some followers, among them this author, a Russian composer, and his wife. And while Russia was in turmoil during the Bolshevik Revolution they, like true disciples, followed him to where he fancied...
| Author | Roberto Assagioli |
| ISBN | 1855382881 |
This is the seminal work by Dr. Roberto Assagioli, M.D. on a psychological model he developed called psychosynthesis. He was a contemporary and colleague of both Freud and Jung and had studied the work of both schools associated with them. He saw psychosynthesis as an evolution of the psychological...
These are not just commentaries on the teachings of an
ancient Zen master. Here is an alive, contemporary Zen master at work --
and as the meaning of Sosan's teachings are unraveled, so are the habitual
patterns and prejudices of the reader's mind. Furthermore, Osho's work is
so subtle...
| Author | Edwin Arnold |
| ISBN | 1434604764 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | P.D. Ouspensky |
| ISBN | 0766104222 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0521626064 |
The great three-volume Principia Mathematica is deservedly the most famous work ever written on the foundations of mathematics. Its aim is to deduce all the fundamental propositions of logic and mathematics from a small number of logical premisses and primitive ideas, and so to prove that mathematics...
Even though I felt that this book was difficult to comprehend for someone my age, there were, in fact quite many words that spoke to me.
Personally, through this book I've become wiser on how my relationship with the God should actually be, and how I can inquire about my real Self. I also think that Sri...
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras and Other Pythagorean Fragments
| Author | Hierocles of Alexandria |
| ISBN | 1409910202 |
Pythagoras of Samos (born between 580 and 572 BC, died between 500 and 490 BC) was an Ionian Greek mathematician and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist; however some have questioned the scope of his contributions...
| Author | David R. Hawkins |
| ISBN | 0971500762 |
Finalizes and further clarifies the true nature and core of the condition termed "Enlightenment." It is primarily an instruction manual for the serious spiritual devotee, and reveals information only known by those who have transcended the ego to reach Divine Realization. This is the inner route...
| Author | Manly P. Hall |
| ISBN | 0893143383 |
Manly P. Hall
The Occult Anatomy of Man
At 38 pages, an easy cheat read for your 2017 “books read” list. I personally found this book from Hebrew Roots movement; realizing many terms in Hebrew sounded like modern day anatomical terms (I studied nursing). Definitely a recommended read...
| Author | G.I. Gurdjieff |
| ISBN | 1585424579 |
The teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) has come to be recognized as one of the most original, enduring, and penetrating of our century. While Gurdjieff used many different means to transmit his vision of the human dilemma and human possibility, he gave special importance to his acknowledged masterwork,...
| Author | Paramahansa Yogananda |
| ISBN | 0876122322 |
This is part of an anthology of collected talks by the beloved Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, which includes, The Divine Romance, Man's Eternal Quest and Journey to Self-Realization. They are beyond review. They are what I keep in my own nightstand and what I open during times of trouble. They are what...
