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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
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Thomas Cahill
A narrative history of the Jewish people, written by the best-selling author of "How the Irish Saved Civilization". Cahill understands the real significance of the Jews in world history to be not merely as the originators of monotheism, but as the first people to understand the notion of history itself--the first to view time as a linear narrative ...
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Tao Te Ching
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Professor Lao Tzu
Long interested in Taoist teaching, Le Guin retells a classic story, including her own notes on her interpretations of the events in the story.
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An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
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Dalai Lama, Nicholas Vreeland (Read by), Richard Gere (Afterword by)
Based on the Dalai Lama's 1999 lectures in New York City's Central Park, these insights focus on achieving the mental discipline that can help open one's mind and heart.
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How Can I Help?
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Paul Gorman, Ram, Ram Dass
Provides support and inspiration for us in our efforts as members of the helping professions. We learn to find strength, clarity, and wisdom for those times when we are called on to care for one another.
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Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
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A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Preface by)
The Bhagavad-gita is the main source-book on yoga and a concise summary of India's Vedic wisdom. Yet remarkably, the setting for this classic of spiritual literature is an ancient Indian battlefield. At the last moment, the great warrior Arjuna begins to wonder about the real meaning of his life. In the Bhagavadgita, Lord Krsna brings His disciple ...
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The Way of Chuang Tzu
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Thomas Merton
Chuang Tzu considered, along with Lao Tzu, one of the great figures of early Taoist thought used parables and anecdotes, allegory, and paradox to illustrate that real happiness and freedom are found only in understanding the Tao or Way of nature, and dwelling in its unity. Thomas Mertons collection of poetic renderings taken from the Chinese ...
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The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way
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Reginald M. French (Translator)
Charmingly written, filled with scenes of Russian peasant life, The Way of a Pilgrim and its sequel, The Pilgrim Continues His Way, portray the traditions and interior life of Eastern Orthodox spirituality, bringing to the West the soul of Eastern Christianity.
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We're All Doing Time: A Guide for Getting Free
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Bo Lozoff
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I & Thou
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Martin Buber
Originally written in 1923, I AND THOU is Martin Buber's classic text on theology that offers an existential analysis of man's relationship with himself and with God.
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Autobiography of a Yogi
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Paramahansa Yogananda
A classic text, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI describes the life and teachings of the Hindu monk Paramahansa Yogananda. From his childhood in India that inspired his search for a spiritual teacher, to the time that he spent in the West as a teacher himself, this book gives not only the facts of his life but also the spiritual tenets by which that life ...
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Think on These Things
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J. Krishnamurti
Krisnamurti examines culture, education, religion, politics, and tradition as well as the ambition, greed, envy, and lust for power that he believes are deteriorating factos in human society.
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Analects of Confucius
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Arthur Waley, Confucius
This series of short sayings, proverbs, and observations on ethics and methods for living originated around 400 B.C.
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How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
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Swami Prabhavananda
Pantanjali's seminal teachings on yoga and meditation, and profound insight into the human condition is presented here through the eyes of translator Swami Prabhavanda (a monk who also translated THE BHAGAVAD GITA: THE SONG OF GOD) and renowned writer Christopher Isherwood. An oft-cited resource for spiritual seekers and yogis, this text explains ...
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The Orthodox Church: Second Edition
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Timothy Ware, Kallistos Ware, Bishop, Kallistos
Since its first publication thirty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy continues to be a subject of enormous interest among Western Christians, and the author believes that an understanding of its standpoint is necessary before ...
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The Philokalia, Volume 4: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth
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Kallistos Ware, Bishop (Editor), Philip Sherrard (Editor), G E Palmer (Editor)
Written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition, the texts published in Greek in 1782 as "The Philokalia" were later translated into Slavonic and then Russian. This is the fourth of five volumes of a translation from the original Greek, and contains some of the most important writings in the ...
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Tao: The Watercourse Way
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Alan Watts
Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of TAO in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watts.Written with the collaboration of Al Chung-liang Huang.
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Analects
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Confucius
This series of short sayings, proverbs, and observations on ethics and methods for living originated around 400 B.C.
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The Divine Romance
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Paramahansa Yogananda
A collection of more than 50 talks on the vast range of inspiring and universal truths that have captivated millions in Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. Readers will find these talks alive with the unique blend of all-embracing wisdom, encouragement, and love for humanity that have made the author one of our era's most revered and ...
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World Religions: Eastern Traditions
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Willard Oxtoby (Editor)
A team of scholarly authorities on religion has assembled this introduction to the religious traditions of South Asian and East Asian origin, under the editorship of Willard G. Oxtoby. Also included in this volume is a chapter on the Aboriginal traditions of Asia and the Pacific. Each chapter features the historical development of a religious ...
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
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Edwin F Bryant
Written almost two millennia ago, Patanjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of ...
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Guide for the Perplexed
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Moses Maimonides
The great medieval sage Moses Maimonides draws on the revelations in Jewish scripture and the rationality of Aristotle's writings as he addresses one of his former students, whose initial forays into philosophy had left him "perplexed" and who needs further guidance. Originally written in Arabic in three books, this treatise consists of a large ...
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Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life
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Richard Wilhelm (Translator)
The point of view established in this volume is that the spirit must lean on science as its guide in the world of reality, and that science must turn to the spirit for the meaning of life. This book lends us a new approach to the East, and it also strengthens the point of view evolving in the West with respect to the psyche. Wilhelm provides the ...
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God's Smuggler
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Brother Andrew
"Brother Andrew is living evidence that even in a world composed more and more of sophisticated softies there is still room fo revangelical derring do"..........The Austin Statesman
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Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior
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Chogyam Trungpa
This work presents the principles and practices of the sacred warrior's path for Western readers. As in ancient times, the sacred warrior's task is to master life's challenges not through violence but through courage and self-knowledge.
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Tortured for Christ
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Richard Wurmbrand
The Rev Richard Wurmbrand is an evangelical minister who endured 14 years of Communist imprisonment and torture in his homeland, Romania. In 1945, when the Communists seized the country and attempted to control the churches for their purposes, Wurmbrand began an "underground" ministry to his enslaved people and the invading Soviet soldiers. He was ...
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