La voz del maestro
10 best books like La voz del maestro (Kahlil Gibran): Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning, The Top 500 Poems, The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol 4: Translation of Books III and IV, Songs of Milarepa, The Wisdom of China and India, The Bijak of Kabir, God Speaks, Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff, Edmund Spenser's Poetry, Run to the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton, V. 1
Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning
| Author | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| ISBN | 1566198070 |
Wow, I adored these poems. They were beautiful. Robert and Elizabeth had such a fascinating and beautiful love story and their poetry definitely reflects that.
All that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue,...
The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces,...
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...
"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...
| Author | Meher Baba |
| ISBN | 0915828022 |
My daughter called this book "epic." That's a good way to start to intimate what kind of work this is: a clear look at "the big picture." Meher Baba's "God Speaks" is the description of the journey of the soul throughout all the realms of the cosmos, told as simply and directly as such can be done. This is 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 | Edmund Spenser |
| ISBN | 0393962997 |
To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by...
Run to the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton, V. 1
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0060654759 |
When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the...
| 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...
| 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,...
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...
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect
| Author | William Walker Atkinson |
Interesting rundown on reincarnation and Karma from the Hindu perspective. It clarifies the belief very well. The author seems to infer however that all beliefs believe in a form of reincarnation and that all religion at one time or another believed in the same way that Hinduism does. If my take on it...
James Allen remains one of the bestselling and respected self-help authors ever. In The Way of Peace he show how peace begins within us and inevitably manifests in the physical realm. Using concepts incorporated into the Law of Attraction and The Secret, this classic book is an essential resource for...
The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace: Core Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism
This eloquent missive from Tibet's revered political and spiritual leader in exile is a treasury of simple wisdom: a primer for living with purpose and for dying in peace. His Holiness the Dalai Lama presents his own luminous thoughts and comforting guidance, and draws upon the wisdom of Buddhist tradition...
| Author | Tim Dowley |
| ISBN | 0800634969 |
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It's an assembly of short and very short essays, aimed at evangelical Anglicans in the UK, originally published in 1977 and revised in 1990. The one thing I really did learn from it was the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century, which I now realise...
| Author | Seno Gumira Ajidarma |
| ISBN | 9792227717 |
Betapa kita selalu berusaha untuk mem-berhalakan fantasi. Ya. Manusia memang selalu membutuhkan persinggahan emosi. Untuk sesuatu yang bernama kelegaan. Tapi, sayang. Kadangkala manusia tidak tahu kepada siapa dia harus 'meneduhkan' emosinya.
Cinta tidak membutuhkan kata-kata...
| Author | Lewis Carroll |
| ISBN | 0517523833 |
Concise, engaging, great for self-learners
The Kindle edition is a little strange; I can't seem to find the references diagrams in it, although web searching the book will help you on those occasions.
It's a short book that touches mostly on the basics of symbolic logic, so it might...
| Author | Janis Hallowell |
| ISBN | 0060559209 |
Told from the viewpoints of four unforgettable characters, The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn is the story of an ordinary girl who is believed to be a modern-day Holy Virgin. At the heart of the story is Francesca: a shy and moody teenager hungry for her absent father's love, she is frightened and intoxicated...
