The Wisdom of China and India
10 best books like The Wisdom of China and India (Lin Yutang): 走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me, Selected Writings, Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol 4: Translation of Books III and IV, Songs of Milarepa, The Bijak of Kabir, God Speaks, Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff, Spiritual Sayings, Queen Victoria's Little Wars
走得越远,离自己越近 The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me
| Author | Hong Mei |
| ISBN | 7513313717 |
Hong Mei's (洪梅) debut travelogue, The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me (走得越远,离自己越近), takes readers on a meditative backpacking odyssey across the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent over the course of a year.
Hong is recognized as the first Chinese...
| Author | Meister Eckhart |
| ISBN | 0140433430 |
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...
| Author | Winston S. Churchill |
| ISBN | 0141442069 |
The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury...
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,...
| Author | Milarepa |
| ISBN | 0486428141 |
A Buddhist holy man whose songs have been sung and studied since the twelfth century, Milarepa exchanged a life of sin and maliciousness for one of contemplation and love, eventually reaching—according to his disciples—the ultimate state of enlightenment. His thousands of extemporaneously...
"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...
| Author | Meher Baba |
| ISBN | 0915828022 |
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...
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 | Kahlil Gibran |
| ISBN | 0806500417 |
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...
| Author | Byron Farwell |
| ISBN | 0393302350 |
From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British interests, to extend a frontier, to repel an attack, avenge an insult, or suppress a mutiny or rebellion. Continuous warfare became an accepted...
| Author | Karl E. Meyer |
| ISBN | 0465045766 |
From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061550248 |
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...
| Author | Roberto Assagioli |
| ISBN | 1855382881 |
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...
| Author | Liezi |
| ISBN | 1570628998 |
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,...
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...
| Author | Edwin Arnold |
| ISBN | 1434604764 |
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...
| Author | P.D. Ouspensky |
| ISBN | 0766104222 |
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,...
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras and Other Pythagorean Fragments
| Author | Hierocles of Alexandria |
| ISBN | 1409910202 |
Pythagoras of Samos (born between 580 and 572 BC, died between 500 and 490 BC) was an Ionian Greek mathematician and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist; however some have questioned the scope of his contributions...
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0415141176 |
Philosophy, Russell argues in An Outline of Philosophy, is concerned with the universe as a whole. Humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. Russell illuminates the ways in which we are capable of knowledge and discovering natural laws...
| Author | Patrick Curry |
| ISBN | 1840461160 |
Machiavellian is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. It is a how-to manual for dictators, a cynical...
| Author | Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| ISBN | 1594621594 |
The privilege is given to me, as an elder, to pen a word of introduction to this little book, the first written by a younger Brother, young in body verily, but not in Soul. The teachings contained in it were given to him by his Master in preparing him for Initiation, and were written down by him from memory...
