The Way to God
10 best books like The Way to God (Mahatma Gandhi): The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic, The Denial of Death, Letters from a Stoic, My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson, Teachings of the Buddha, The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL, Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations, Baghavad Gita
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan, and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide: the question of living or not living in an absurd universe devoid of order or meaning....
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0156612062 |
A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern civilization
Considered by many to be one of the most important books in the field of psychology, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung....
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
| Author | R.K. Narayan |
| ISBN | 0143039679 |
The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age,...
| Author | Ernest Becker |
| ISBN | 0684832402 |
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0140442103 |
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were in conflict with his Stoic beliefs. Nevertheless he was the outstanding figure of his age. The Stoic philosophy which Seneca professed in his writings, later supported by Marcus Aurelius, provided Rome...
My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson
| Author | Sidney Rosen |
| ISBN | 0393301354 |
Milton H. Erickson has been called the most influential hypnotherapist of our time. Part of his therapy was his use of teaching tales, which through shock, surprise, or confusion—with genius use of questions, puns, and playful humor—helped people to see their situations in a new way. In this book...
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 1590301498 |
This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. Among the selections are some of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from later Indian scriptures on the perfection of wisdom, verses...
The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
«La pace non è solo assenza di guerra, e una buona vita non significa solo assenza di sofferenza. Una buona pace, una pace in cui le comunità possano svilupparsi, può essere costruita solo quando chiediamo a noi stessi e agli altri di essere un po' più che buoni, un po' meglio che forti. E una buona...
Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations
| Author | Jules Evans |
| ISBN | 1846043204 |
In his engaging book, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the world has ever known. Each of these ancient philosophers...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 8489836655 |
A text permeated with extraordinary wisdom! Such lofty philosophy packed in no more than fifty pages! Baghavad Gita, being one of Hinduism's most important religious texts, moved me in volumes and undoubtedly is a book that I am going to be rereading for the rest of my life merely to remind myself of the...
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ISBN | 0674267206 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative...
Secrets for Success and Happiness
| Author | Og Mandino |
| ISBN | 0449147991 |
It's safe to say that world-famous speaker and author Og Mandino has as many friends as any man alive, thanks to his inspiring motivational lectures and his bestselling books. This new book is a special gift to all his friends, old and new, a book they may cherish above all the rest. SECRETS FOR SUCCESS...
The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Winner of the 2015 Hiett Prize in the Humanities.
Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for...
| Author | Jim Stockdale |
| ISBN | 0553253166 |
I can understand the reason for warfare : to rob land and resources.It happened throughout human history.
Tribes, nations wil find allies , and change 'em depending cirscumtacy.
Yes, it is understandable .
But for the invaded countries, the people chosen to aid the robbing foreigners...
A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection
| Author | James B. Stockdale |
| ISBN | 0817981527 |
The decade that followed James Stockdale's seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital in San Diego to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. In this collection...
What Is Ancient Philosophy?
| Author | Pierre Hadot |
| ISBN | 0674013735 |
A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy--and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names,...
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
| Author | Jim Stockdale |
| ISBN | 0817993916 |
In describing his seven and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, the late Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale has said: "In that atmosphere of death and hopelessness, stripped of the niceties, the amenities of civilization, my ideas on life and leadership crystallized." Despite torture,...
