Open Secret: Versions of Rumi
6 best books like Open Secret: Versions of Rumi (Rumi): The Other Americans, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Chop Wood, Carry Water, Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing, Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Late one...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| Author | Jenny Odell |
| ISBN | 1612197493 |
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.
When the technologies we use every day collapse...
Living Buddha, Living Christ
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1573225681 |
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course...
| Author | Rick Fields |
| ISBN | 0874772095 |
More than a thousand years ago a Chinese Zen Master wrote:
Magical Power, Marvelous Action!
Chopping Wood, Carrying Water...
The message is as true today as it was then: the greatest lessons and the profoundest heights of the spiritual path can be found in our everyday life....
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1617690848 |
From fill-in art journals to self-help books on creativity, more than ever the public is striving to bring artistic enlightenment into their everyday lives. In Living Color, one of the country’s most celebrated writers expounds on her own path to artistic inspiration. Tailored to a new generation...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0826201563 |
One of my favorite books of poetry. She looks at poetry and people in a deep but whimsical manner. I feel like if I sat with her poems for dinner, we'd be laughing and talking late into the night about literature and philosophy and muskrats and constellations and God. I love how she embraces nature, animals,...
