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10 best books like Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (Mircea Eliade): The Bhagavad Gita, Homage to Catalonia, Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod, The Art of Being, The Anti-Christ, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears, The Spinoza Problem, Light on Yoga, Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living, Demon

The Bhagavad Gita
AuthorKrishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
ISBN0140449183
The Bhagavad Gita is an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty battle between the Pandava and Kaurava armies, the god Krishna gives spiritual enlightenment to the warrior...
Homage to Catalonia
AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN0156421178
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod
AuthorNikolai Gogol
ISBN0192828800
Hailed universally as Russia's finest comic writer, and by many as its greatest writer of prose, Nikolai creates a unique Ukranian world, from the darkest Gothic to folkloric levity. Here, this extraordinary countryside is revealed in all its variety in his first two collections of short stories....
The Art of Being
AuthorErich Fromm
ISBN0826406734
Between 1974 and 1976, while working on the book To Have Or to Be? at his home in Locarno, Switzerland, the aged Erich Fromm wrote far more manuscript and chapters than were actually used in the book, which was published in 1976. Some of these chapters are contained in the present volume. They deal entirely...
The Anti-Christ
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
ISBN1421270536
Monumento de escándalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre póstuma del inquietante pensamiento y de la palabra pasional y devastadora de Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). El Anticristo, como toda la obra filosófica del insigne alemán, ha sido interpretado de muy diversos...
Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
AuthorPema Chödrön
ISBN1590306341
Best-seller Pema Chödrön draws on the Buddhist concept of shenpa to help us see how certain habits of mind tend to “hook” us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, and addiction. The good news is that once we start to recognize these patterns, they instantly begin to lose their...
The Spinoza Problem
AuthorIrvin D. Yalom
ISBN0465029639
When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe,...
Light on Yoga
AuthorB.K.S. Iyengar
ISBN0805210318
Light on Yoga has become the bible for hundreds of thousands of people who practice Yoga daily with the Iyengar method, for exercise, meditation, or simply relaxation. With more than 600 photographs depicting all the postures and breathing exercises, it remains the fullest, most practical, and most...
Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living
AuthorDonna Farhi
ISBN0060750464
Internationally renowned and bestselling author Donna Farhi moves yoga practice beyond the mat into our everyday lives, restoring the tradition's intended function as a complete, practical philosophy for daily living.

Expanding upon the teachings of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the core...
Demon
AuthorMikhail Lermontov
ISBN1853993166
Where the land knows no time
where bonfires have no end,
and doomed shadows often tend
to mutter songs that poorly rhyme,

there lies the Demon, another prey of his kingdom.

and one by one the ages passed,
as minute follows after minute,
each one monotonously...
Karmic Astrology, Vol. 1: The Moon's Nodes and Reincarnation
AuthorMartin Schulman
ISBN0877282889
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The Book of the Law
AuthorAleister Crowley
ISBN1578633087
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." This oft-misunderstood phrase, which forms the basis for Crowley's practice of Magick, is found in The Book of the Law. Allegedly dictated to Crowley in Cairo, Egypt between noon and 1 pm on three successive days in April 1904, the Book of the Law is the source...
Twilight of the Idols
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
ISBN0872203549
Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English,...
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