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10 best books like Songs of Milarepa (Milarepa): The Life of Milarepa, Selected Writings, A Far Rockaway of the Heart, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol 4: Translation of Books III and IV, The Wisdom of China and India, The Bijak of Kabir, God Speaks, Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff, Spiritual Sayings

The Life of Milarepa
AuthorTsangnyön Heruka
ISBN0140193502
The Life of Milarepa is the most beloved story of the Tibetan people amd one of the greatest source books for the contemplative life in all world literature. This biography, a true folk tale from a culture now in crisis, can be read on several levels: a personal and moving introduction to Tibetan Buddhism,...
Selected Writings
AuthorMeister Eckhart
ISBN0140433430
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 Far Rockaway of the Heart
AuthorLawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN0811213986
A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation. This edition now includes eighteen new poems from Ferlinghetti's...
The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama
AuthorThomas Laird
ISBN0802118275
The Story of Tibet is a work of monumental importance, a fascinating journey through the land and history of Tibet, with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama as guide. Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one...
The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol 4: Translation of Books III and IV
AuthorRumi
ISBN0906094097
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,...
The Wisdom of China and India
AuthorLin Yutang
"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...
The Bijak of Kabir
AuthorKabir
"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...
God Speaks
AuthorMeher Baba
ISBN0915828022
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...
Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff
AuthorThomas de Hartmann

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...
Spiritual Sayings
AuthorKahlil Gibran
ISBN0806500417
Обичайте се, но не превръщайте в окови любовта. Тя нека е морето между бреговете на душите ви.
Из "Пророкът"

Погрешно е да се смята, че любовта е резултат...
Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings
AuthorLudwig Wittgenstein
ISBN0061550248
Major Works is the finest single-volume anthology of influential philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's important writings. Featuring the complete texts of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Blue and Brown Books: Studies for 'Philosophical Investigations,' and On Certainty, this new collection...
Psychosynthesis: A Manual of Principles and Techniques
AuthorRoberto Assagioli
ISBN1855382881
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...
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
AuthorNāgārjuna
ISBN0195093364
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...
Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
AuthorLiezi
ISBN1570628998
The Lieh-tzu is a collection of stories and philosophical musings of a sage of the same name who lived around the fourth century BCE. Lieh-tzu's teachings range from the origin and purpose of life, the Taoist view of reality, and the nature of enlightenment to the training of the body and mind, communication,...
Hsin Hsin Ming, the Book of Nothing: Discourses on the Faith Mind of Sosan
AuthorOsho
ISBN0880505974
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...
The Light of Asia
AuthorEdwin Arnold
ISBN1434604764
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...
Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism
AuthorLama Anagarika Govinda
ISBN0877280649
A thorough presentation of Tibetan esoteric principles, Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism is one of the most valuable books ever written on the subject. Lama Angarika Govinda spent over 20 years of his life as a member of the Kargyutpa Order. Studying at the feet of masters in Tibetan hermitages and...
Tertium Organum
AuthorP.D. Ouspensky
ISBN0766104222
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,...
Shobogenzo: Zen Essays by Dogen
AuthorDōgen
ISBN0824814010
A remarkable collection of essays, Shobogenzo, Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching, was composed in the thirteenth century by the Zen master Dogen, founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan. Through its linguistic artistry and its philosophical subtlety, the Shobogenzo presents a thorough recasting...
Principia Mathematica to '56 (Mathematical Library)
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN0521626064
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...
Who Am I?: The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
AuthorRamana Maharshi
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...
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