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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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01

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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