Books Worth Reading
The Song of God: Bhagavad Gita
How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination
(Prabhavananda & Christopher Isherwood)
Bhagavad Gita
(Barbara Stoler Miller)
Bhagavad Gita
(Juan Mascaro)
The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita
(Thomas Byrom)
Ashtavakra Gita
(John Richards)
Duet of One: The Ashtavakra Gita Dialogue
(Ramesh Balsekar)
Bitten by the Black Snake: The Ancient Wisdom of Ashtavakra
(Manuel Schoch)
The Perennial Way
(Bart Marshall)
Avadhuta Gita of Dattatreya
(Ashokananda)
Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut
History of Mysticism
Mysticism and Science
(S. Abhayananda)
Astavakra Samhita
(Nityaswarupananda)
Back to the Truth: 5000 Years of Advaita
(Dennis Waite)
Vasistha's Yoga
(Venkatesananda)
I Am That: Talks with Nisargadatta
(Maurice Frydman)
Prior to Consciousness: Talks with Nisargadatta
Seeds of Consciousness: The Wisdom of Nisargadatta
Consciousness and the Absolute: The Final Talks of Nisargadatta
(Jean Dunn)
Autobiography of a Yogi
(Paramahansa Yogananda)
Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta
The Eternal Companion
(Prabhavananda)
The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal
(Prabhavananda & Frederick Manchester)
Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj
(Ramesh Balsekar)
Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharishi
(Ramana)
Tao Te Ching
Chuang Tsu, Inner Chapters
(Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English)
Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way
(Victor Mair)
Think on These Things
The First and Last Freedom
Freedom from the Known
The Ending of Time
Commentaries on Living Series
The Awakening of Intelligence
Education and the Significance of Life
(Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Where Are You Going?
The Perfect Relationship
Secret of the Siddhas
Does Death Really Exist?
Mystery of the Mind
Reflections of the Self
Play of Consciousness
(Muktananda)
The Way of Siddhartha
A Path of Righteousness: Dhammapada
Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way
(David Kalupahana)
Taking the Path of Zen
(Robert Aitken)
Three Pillars of Zen
Zen, Dawn in the West
(Phillip Kapleau)
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
(Shunryu Suzuki)
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
(Paul Reps)
The Enlightened Mind
The Book of Job
(Stephen Mitchell)
The Gospel According to Zen
(Robert Sohl & Audrey Carr)
The Sound of One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers
(Yoel Hoffmann)
Zen Koans
(Gyomay Kubose)
Zen to Go
Portable Curmudgeon
Return of the Portable Curmudgeon
(Jon Winokur)
Zen and the Art of Motorocycle Maintenance
Lila
(Robert Pirsig)
Zen in the Art of Archery
(Eugene Herrigel)
Jewels within the Heart: Verses of the Buddha's Teachings
(Laurence Mills)
The Religions of Man
(Huston Smith)
Siddhartha
Steppenwolf
Demian
Narcissus and Goldmund
The Glass Bead Game
The Journey to the East
(Hermann Hesse)
Tao of Physics
(Fritjof Capra)
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
(Gary Zukav)
Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
(Thaddeus Golas)
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
(Dan Millman)
Razor's Edge
(Somerset Maugham)
The Mystique of Enlightenment
The Unrational Ideas of a Man Called U.G.
(Rabbi Alvin Bobroff)
The Courage to Stand Alone
Conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti
(Jeffrey Masson)
Emmanual
Emmanual II, A Choice for Love
(Pat Rodegast & Judith Stanton)
Life After Life
The Light Beyond
(Raymond Moody)
Mystics and Zen Masters
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thoughts In Solitude
No Man Is an Island
The Wisdom of the Desert
Ways of the Christian Mystics
(Thomas Merton)
A Thomas Merton Reader
(Thomas McDonnell)
The Education of Littletree
(Forest Carter)
The Tao of Pooh
The Te of Piglet
(Benjamin Hoff)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
One
The Bridge Across Forever
(Richard Bach)
The Path of the Masters
(Julian Johnson)
Mutant Message Down Under
(Marlow Morgan)
The Experience of No-Self
A Contemplative Journey
What is Self?
A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness
(Bernadette Roberts)
The Spectrum of Consciousness
No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
Eye to Eye
The Quest for the New Paradigm
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
One Taste
A Brief History of Everything
The Eye of Spirit
An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad
The Marriage of Sense and Soul
Integrating Science and Religion
(Ken Wilbur)
Mahamudra: Boundless Joy and Freedom
(Ole Nydahl)
The Interior Realization
Zen and the Psychology of Transformation:
The Supreme Doctrine
(Hubert Benoit)
Journey of the Enlightened Mind
The Only Dance There Is
Be Here Now
Grist for the Mill
The Journey of Awakening
A Meditator's Guidebook
(Ram Dass)
The Everything and the Nothing
God to Man and Man to God
(Meher Baba)
The Lottery
(Shirley Jackson)
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
(Ayn Rand)
Stranger in a Strange Land
(Robert Heinlein)
The Bible
The Qur'an (Koran)
(Muhammad)
Lust for Enlightenment, Buddhism and Sex
(John Stevens)
Practical Vedanta
(Vivekananda)
Mahamudra: The Moonlight, Quintessence of Mind and Meditation
(Takpo Tashi Namgyal & Lobsang Lhalungpa)
The Thunder: Perfect Mind
Ken's Guide to the Bible
(Ken Smith)
The Source
(James Michner)
The Urantia Book
(Urantia Foundation)
Course in Miracles
(Inner Peace Foundation)
The Miracle of Mindfulness
A Manual on Meditation
Being Peace
A Guide to Walking Meditation
The Sun My Heart
Peace Is Every Step
The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
(Thick Nhat Hanh)
Our Kind
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches
(Marvin Harris)
Cat's Cradle
Slaughterhouse Five
Bluebeard
Hocus Pocus
Breakfast of Champions
Welcome to the Monkey House
(Kurt Vonnegut)
Knee of Listening
Method of Siddhas
Dawn Horse Testament
(Da Free John)
The Celestine Prophecy
(James Redfield)
The Road Less Traveled
(M. Scott Peck)
Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha
(E.A. Burtt)
The Masks of God Series
Primitive Mythology
Oriental Mythology
Occidental Mythology
Creative Mythology
(Joseph Campbell)
The Power of Myth
(Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers)
Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and the Mind
(Arthur Zajonc)
The Naked Truth
Matrix of Power
Egypt, Light of the World
Ancient Belief Systems
(International Research & Educational Research)
Caretakers of Wonder
The Art of Longing
With Secret Friends
Hugh's Hues
Now is the Moon's Eyebrow
The Star Cleaner Reunion
If You're Afraid of the Dark,
Remember the Night Rainbow
(Cooper Eden)
Original Blessing
(Matthew Fox)
Beyond Culture
(Edward T. Hall)
When Society Becomes an Addict
(Ann Wilson Schaef)
Candide
Zarire
Henriade
(Voltaire)
Titus Groan
Gormenghast
Titus Alone
(Mervyn Peake)
Animal Farm
1984
(George Orwell)
Brave New World
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
(Aldous Huxley)
The Grand Inquisitor
(Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Tom Jones
(Henry Fielding)
Gulliver's Travels
(Jonathan Swift)
Farenheit 451
(Ray Bradbury)
Hope For the Flowers
(Trina Paulus)
The Stranger
The Myth of Sisyphus
(Albert Camus)
Power Tactics of Jesus Christ
(Jay Haley)
The Holographic Universe
(Michael Talbot)
The Living Tao
The Art of War
Book of Five Rings
The Shogun Scrolls
(Stephen Kaufman)
Spiritual Literacy
(Frederic Brussat & Mary Ann Brussat)
Earth Abides
(George R. Stewart)
Dune
(Frank Herbert)
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way
The Lathe of Heaven
The Telling
A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle)
(Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Chronicles of Tao
365 Tao
Everyday Day
Scholar Warrior
(Deng Ming-Dao)
Entering the Tao
(Master Hua Ni)
Religions of the World
(Lewis M. Hopfe)
We Are Three (Rumi)
Unseen Rain
Open Secret
Delicious Laughter
Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion
(Coleman Barks)
The Essence of Rumi
(John Baldock)
The Universe in a Single Atom
(Dalai Lama)
Transcending Ego: Distinguishing Consciousness
Everyday Consciousness and Primordial Awareness
(Thrangu Rinpoche)
Jesus and Buddha
The Parallel Sayings
(Marcus Borg)
Choosing Civility: The 25 Rules of Considerate Conduct
(Dr. P.M. Forni)
The End of Faith
(Sam Harris)
The Atheist's Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts
(Joan Konner)
The Herald of the Coming Good
All and Everything
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'
Views from the Real World
(G.I. Gurdjieff)
Living and Dying in Zazen: Five Zen Masters of Modern Japan
The Grass Flute Zen Master: Sodo Yokoyama
Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui
Warrior of Zen: The Diamond-Hard Wisdom Mind of Suzuki Shosan
(Arthur Braverman)
The Wisdom of Insecurity
A Message for an Age of Anxiety
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The Way of Zen
Tao: The Watercourse Way
Nature, Man and Woman
The Essence of Alan Watts
(Alan Watts)
The Four Agreements
A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
The Four Agreements Companion Book
The Mastery of Love
A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship
The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
(Michael Ruiz)
Stillness Speaks
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
(Eckhart Tolle)
The Ends of Time, the Roots of Eternity
Tales of Myth, Nature & Culture
The Water of Life
Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul
Branches of Mentoring
The World Behind the World
Living at the Ends of Time
(Michael Meade)
The Art of Peace: Balance Over Conflict in Sun-Tzu's Art of War
(Philip Dunn)
No Way for the Spiritually "Advanced"
(Ram Tzu)
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
(Eduardo Galeano)
As A Man Thinketh
(James Allen)
Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus
(Brooks Haxton)
The Stonecutter: A Japanese Folk Tale
(Gerald McDermott)
The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments
(Eugene O'Connor)
Pooh and the Philosophers
Pooh and the Millennium
Pooh and the Psychologists
(John Tyerman Williams & Ernest H. Shepard)
Looking at Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter
(Donald Palmer)
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School
(Charles J. Sykes)
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
(Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein)
The Constant Companion
(Eknath Easwaran)
Jacob the Baker, Gentle Wisdom for a Complicated World
(Noah benShea)
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
(Carlos Castaneda)
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
(Gregory Hays)
Baltasar Gracian: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
(Martin Fischer)
Baltasar Gracian: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
(Christopher Maurer)
The Sage's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for the Second Half of Life
(William Martin)
Michael's Fifteen Books
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what movies my friends choose. (To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules in a new note, cast your fifteen picks, and tag people in the note – upper right hand side.) I hope you participate, even if you didn't get tagged!
Ashtavara Gita
Bhagavad Gita
Tao te Ching (Lao Tzu)
Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination (Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood)
The Four Agreements (Miguel Ruiz)
How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
Think on These Things (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (Robert M. Pirsig)
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
Iron John (Robert Bly)
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Wizard of Earthsea Trilogy (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal (Swami Prabhavananda & Frederick Manchester)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
The Gormenghast Trilogy (Mervyn Peake)
The Education of Little Tree:(Forrest Carter)
Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)
The Once and Future King (Terence Hanbury White)
The Merlin Trilogy (Mary Stewart)
Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege (Herb Goldberg)
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Narcissus and Goldmund (Hermann Hess)
In Watermelon Sugar (Richard Brautigan)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
The First and Last Freedom (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Commentaries on Living (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Lust for Enlightenment: Buddhism and Sex (John Stevens)
Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham)
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Richard Bach)
The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
Our Kind (Marvin Harris)
The Grand Inquisitor (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint--Exupery)
Hope For the Flowers (Trina Paulus)
Earth Abides (George R. Stewart)
We Are Three (Rumi)
The Art Of War (Sun Tzu)
The Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi)
Shogun (James Clavell)
Casino Royale & other James Bond Novels (Ian Fleming)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Candide (Voltaire)
Emmanual (Pat Rodegast & Judith Stanton)
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (Dan Millman)
Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)
More as memory allows ...