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50 Spiritual Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on self-discovery, enlightenment, and purpose [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x142x25 mm, kaal: 337 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Oct-2017
  • Kirjastus: John Murray Business
  • ISBN-10: 1473658381
  • ISBN-13: 9781473658387
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x142x25 mm, kaal: 337 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Oct-2017
  • Kirjastus: John Murray Business
  • ISBN-10: 1473658381
  • ISBN-13: 9781473658387
50 Spiritual Classics captures the diversity of life journeys that span centuries, continents, spiritual traditions and secular beliefs: from the historical The Book of Chuang Tzu to modern insight from the Kabbalah, from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet to Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now.

The first and only bite-sized guide to the very best in spiritual writing, this one-of-a-kind collection includes personal memoirs and complelling biographies of such diverse figures as Gandhi, Malcolm X and Black Elk; Eastern philosophers and gurus including Krishnamurti, Yogananda, Chogyam Trungpa and Shunryu Suzuki; and Western saints and mystics such as St. Frances of Assisi, Hermann Hesse and Simone Weil. The last fifteen years have been a golden age in the genre of personal spitirual awakening, with names such as Eckhart Tolle, Neale Donald Walsch and James Redfield breathing new life into the literature.
50 Spiritual Classics showcases these newer works alongside traditional classics such as St Augustine's Confessions and Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle, and conveys the great variety of spiritual experience. In its commentaries of both the conventional classics as well as new writings destined to endure, 50 Spiritual Classics makes universal the human spiritual experience and will inspire spiritual seekers everywhere to begin their own adventure.

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What an uplifting journey I had... If you only ever read one spiritual book, let is be this one. - Susan Jeffers PhD, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

A kaleidoscope of inspiration ...insightful commentaries on each classic and biographical information on the authors. A unique overview of Spirituality. - Watkins Review

Introduction 1(13)
1 Muhammad Asad The Road to Mecca (1954)
14(6)
2 St. Augustine Confessions (400)
20(6)
3 Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
26(4)
4 Black Elk Black Elk Speaks (1932)
30(6)
5 Richard Maurice Bucke Cosmic Consciousness (1901)
36(6)
6 Fritjof Capra The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (1976)
42(6)
7 Carlos Castaneda Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
48(6)
8 G. K. Chesterton St Francis of Assisi (1922)
54(6)
9 Pema Chodron The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (2001)
60(6)
10 Chuang Tzu The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th century)
66(6)
11 Ram Dass Be Here Now (1971)
72(6)
12 Epictetus Enchiridion (1st century)
78(6)
13 Mohandas Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927)
84(6)
14 Ghazzali The Alchemy of Happiness (1097)
90(6)
15 Kahlil Gibran The Prophet (1923)
96(6)
16 G. I. Gurdjieff Meetings with Remarkable Men (1960)
102(6)
17 Dag Hammarskjold Markings (1963)
108(4)
18 Abraham Joshua Heschel The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (1951)
112(6)
19 Hermann Hesse Siddartha (1922)
118(6)
20 Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception (1954)
124(6)
21 William James The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
130(6)
22 Carl Gustav Jung Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1955)
136(6)
23 Margery Kempe The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
142(6)
24 J. Krishnamurti Think on These Things (1964)
148(6)
25 C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters (1942)
154(6)
26 Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)
160(8)
27 Daniel C. Matt The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism (1994)
168(6)
28 W. Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge (1944)
174(6)
29 Dan Millman The Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives (1989)
180(6)
30 Michael Newton Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life between Lives (1994)
186(6)
31 Thich Nhat Hanh The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (1975)
192(6)
32 John O'Donohue Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (1998)
198(6)
33 Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
204(6)
34 James Redfield The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure (1994)
210(6)
35 Miguel Ruiz The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (1997)
216(6)
36 Helen Schucman & William Thetford A Course in Miracles (1976)
222(6)
37 Idries Shah The Way of the Sufi (1968)
228(6)
38 Starhawk The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979)
234(6)
39 Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (1970)
240(6)
40 Emanuel Swedenborg Heaven and Hell (1758)
246(6)
41 Teresa of Avila Interior Castle (1570)
252(6)
42 Mother Teresa A Simple Path (1994)
258(6)
43 Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1998)
264(6)
44 Chogyam Trungpa Cutting through Spiritual Materialism (1973)
270(6)
45 Neale Donald Walsch Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (1998)
276(6)
46 Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Life (2002)
282(6)
47 Simone Weil Waiting for God (1979)
288(6)
48 Ken Wilber A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality (2000)
294(6)
49 Paramahansa Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)
300(6)
50 Gary Zukav The Seat of the Soul: An Inspiring Vision of Humanity's Spiritual Destiny (1990)
306(7)
50 More Spiritual Classics 313(4)
Chronological list of titles 317(2)
Credits 319(2)
Acknowledgments 321(2)
About the Author 323
Tom Butler-Bowdon is recognised as an expert on personal development literature. His 50 Classics series has been hailed as the definitive guide to the literature of possibility, and has won numerous awards including the Benjamin Franklin Self-Help Award and Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, he lives and works in both the Oxford, UK and Australia. www.butler-bowdon.com