Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'
10 best books like Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am' (G.I. Gurdjieff): Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, The Bijak of Kabir, Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff, The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, The Fourth Way, Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Who Am I?: The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Horror movies never frightened me in the same way certain works of literature and film did. Reading through Zarathustra as a teenager was a singularly powerful experience; the work defies categorization or genre, time or place. I was warned that Nietzsche was dangerous for young readers (like Machiavelli)...
Tales of Ordinary Madness
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0872861554 |
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski...
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
| Author | Carlos Castaneda |
| ISBN | 0671227424 |
You may find this book has a lot of chaff on how they prepare peyote and other drugs, mundane descriptions in diary... yet when you less expect it, they hit you with a boulder of wisdom that leaves you freezed.
There is ONE core idea in the book that makes the price tag disappear. You cannot pay for...
| Author | P.D. Ouspensky |
| ISBN | 0156007460 |
A new edition of the groundbreaking spiritual treasure, with a foreword by bestselling author Marianne Williamson .
Since its original publication in 1949, In Search of the Miraculous has been hailed as the most valuable and reliable documentation of G. I. Gurdjieff's thoughts and universal...
"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 | P.D. Ouspensky |
| ISBN | 0394719433 |
This book is something of a contradiction. It could be viewed as a “self help” book, but, unlike the majority of these, it does not reassure the reader or boost his or her confidence. It begins from the premise that most of our thoughts and actions are mechanical, and proceeds to suggest that it requires...
| Author | P.D. Ouspensky |
| ISBN | 0394716728 |
The Fourth Way is the most comprehensive statement thus far published of the ideas taught by the late P.D. Ouspensky. Consisting of verbatim records of his oral teaching from 1921 to 1946, it gives a lucid explanation of the practical side of G. I. Gurdjieff's teachings, which Gurdjieff presented in...
| Author | Maurice Nicoll |
| ISBN | 0877289107 |
This book is a holistic and synchronizing work for life.The level of detail is really spellbinding .Well.. i am not very good at connecting timelines but it should have been during Gurdjieff's time the electron , neutron discoveries were made but the level of detail in explaining the hydrogen tables...
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...
