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Spiritual Growth
Books about meaning, presence, purpose, acceptance, and inner life.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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Brianna Wiest · 2016
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Your life changes when the story you tell yourself becomes honest enough to edit.
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James Allen · 1902
As a Man Thinketh
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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Joe Dispenza · 2012
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
A new self begins as an unfamiliar state you are willing to practice before the old world knows what to do with you.
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Elizabeth Gilbert · 2006
Eat, Pray, Love
The brave pilgrimage is not leaving your life behind. It is learning which parts of you are still waiting to be invited home.
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Matthew McConaughey · 2020
Greenlights
Greenlights are not permission slips from the universe. They are the moments when your preparation, patience, and truth finally get the same direction.
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Michael Pollan · 2018
How to Change Your Mind
The mind changes when wonder becomes safe enough to study and disciplined enough to integrate.
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Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon · 2012
How Will You Measure Your Life?
The measure of a life is not the trophy case. It is the strategy your choices quietly prove.
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Byron Katie · 2002
Loving What Is
Peace is not waiting for reality to become lovable. It begins when the argument with reality is finally questioned.
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Hermann Hesse · 1922
Siddhartha
The river teaches by carrying every version of you at once.
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Paulo Coelho · 1988
The Alchemist
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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Oliver Burkeman · 2012
The Antidote
The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
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Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler · 1998
The Art of Happiness
Happiness is not found by escaping suffering. It is trained by meeting life with a mind that keeps choosing warmth.
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Charlie Mackesy · 2019
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
What do you want to be when you grow up? Kind.
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Margareta Magnusson · 2017
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Death cleaning is not about death. It is about leaving a little more room for love.
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Randy Pausch · 2008
The Last Lecture
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
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Thich Nhat Hanh · 1975
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
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Norman Vincent Peale · 1952
The Power of Positive Thinking
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Rick Warren · 2002
The Purpose Driven Life
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
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M. Scott Peck · 1978
The Road Less Traveled
The road less traveled is not chosen once. It is chosen every time truth costs more than comfort and love asks for discipline.
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Rhonda Byrne · 2006
The Secret
The secret is not that wishing replaces reality. It is that repeated inner pictures train you to notice, choose, and become differently.
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Deepak Chopra · 1994
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.
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Benjamin Hoff · 1982
The Tao of Pooh
The way opens when you stop trying to outsmart the forest and begin moving with your own nature.
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Michael A. Singer · 2007
The Untethered Soul
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind.
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Alan Watts · 1951
The Wisdom of Insecurity
The present is not a fragile bridge to a safer future. It is the only ground on which life can meet itself.
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Jay Shetty · 2020
Think Like a Monk
The monk mind is built in the pause: notice the noise, return to your values, and offer the next useful act.
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Mitch Albom · 1997
Tuesdays with Morrie
Love each other or perish.
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Sam Harris · 2014
Waking Up
The feeling that we call I is itself an appearance in consciousness, not the owner of consciousness.
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Dan Millman · 1980
Way of the Peaceful Warrior
There are no ordinary moments.
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Paul Kalanithi · 2016
When Breath Becomes Air
Even if I am dying, until I actually die, I am still living.
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Katherine May · 2020
Wintering
Wintering is not the absence of life. It is life gathering itself in the dark.
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes · 1992
Women Who Run With the Wolves
The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door.
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Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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Shunryu Suzuki · 1970
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.
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