Recommended Reading

Pierre Hadot
Plotinus: The Simplicity of Vision
 
Lauren Shifren
The Buddha and the Bard
 
Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
Differentiated Sameness – A collection of Sufi Poems
Pathways to the Garden: Contemporary Insights on the Sufi Path

Elif Shafak
The Forty Rules of Love: a novel including the relationship of Rumi and Shams of Tabriz.

Matt Haig
The Life Impossible

Karen Armstrong
The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century

Jean-Pierre De Caussade
Abandonment to Divine Providence

William Dalrymple
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

Ian Dunt
How to be a Liberal

Literary Revelations
Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku

James Hughes Reho
Tantric Jesus: The Erotic Heart of Early Christianity

Richard Rohr
Falling Upwards

Pico Iyer
Learning From Silence

John O’Donohue
Eternal Echoes


G. Bluestone
Maverick Sutras
Life in the Rolling Mirror
Enlightening: The Way of Enquiry
Light of the Kensai
 
Lao Tsu
Tao Te Ching: translation: Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English with Toinette Lippe
 
Lee Lozowick
In The Fire
Feast or Famine
 
Amir Freimann
Spiritual Transmission: Paradoxes and Dilemmas on the Spiritual Path
 
Alfred K. LaMotte
Wounded Bud
Strangers & Pilgrims
Savor Eternity One Moment at a time
 
Namkhai Norbu
Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
The Mirror: Advice on the Presence of Awareness
 
Zen Master Hongzhi
Cultivating The Empty Field
 
D.E. Harding
The Little Book of Life and Death
 On Having No Head
Open to the Source
 
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That

Shankara
Crest-Jewel of Discrimination
 
Ken Wilber
No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
The Spectrum of Consciousness
The Pocket Ken Wilber
 
Iain McGilchrist
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
The Master and his Emissary
 


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