Mountains and Rivers Without End
10 best books like Mountains and Rivers Without End (Gary Snyder): Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously, Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Lighthousekeeping, Comedy Sex God, Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, You've GOT to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life, Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion, Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases, Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
| Author | Jessica Pan |
| ISBN | 0857526154 |
What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is going to find out.
When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in...
| Author | Robert Wolff |
| ISBN | 0892818662 |
• Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other.
• Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition.
• Shows how we can reconnect with...
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
| Author | Sarah Manguso |
| ISBN | 1555977030 |
“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” —The New Yorker
In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with...
| Author | Jeanette Winterson |
| ISBN | 0156032899 |
Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century...
| Author | Pete Holmes |
| ISBN | 0062803999 |
Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand-out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes.
Pete Holmes is a sold-out-every-night stand-up comedian...
| Author | Ryōkan |
| ISBN | 1590309820 |
Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He had no dharma heir....
| Author | Jack Canfield |
| ISBN | 0060891696 |
There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks have...
| Author | Benjamin E. Zeller |
| ISBN | 1479881066 |
In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. This act was the culmination of over two decades of spiritual and social development for the members of Heaven's Gate, a religious...
Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Fight cancer, diabetes, heart disease, weight gain, and even the aging process itself with one simple, scientifically proven plan to reverse disease--as well as prevent and reduce symptoms--from the world-renowned pioneer of lifestyle medicine.
Dean Ornish, M.D.,...
Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart
| Author | Ram Dass |
| ISBN | 1604079673 |
Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a heart-wrenching moment of opening. More commonly, it happens when we polish the mirror of the heart with daily practice--and see beyond the illusion of our transient thoughts and emotions to the vast and luminous landscape...
Memories Look at Me: A Memoir
| Author | Tomas Tranströmer |
| ISBN | 0811220184 |
Written a few years after Transtromer suffered a stroke that left him unable to speak, Memories Look at Me is Tomas Tranströmer’s lyrical autobiography about growing up in Sweden. His story opens with a streak of light, a comet that becomes a brilliant metaphor for “my life” as he tries to penetrate...
Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written...
The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
| Author | Rob Walker |
| ISBN | 0525521240 |
An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life.
Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present...
