Favorite religious texts

[Sand Dancer]

I am curious what everyone's favorite religious texts are. Not just scriptural texts, but any books on religion/spirituality. I need to expand my already ridiculously long reading list.

 

[shunyadragon]

Seven Valleys and Four Valleys by Baha'u'llah

 

[McBell]

On A Pale Horse ~ Piers Anthony

 

[SomeRandom]

Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien

 

[Skwim]

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Helped make me what I am.

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[Spirit of Light]

Zhuan Falun ( the teaching of Falun Gong)

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I am curious what everyone's favorite religious texts are. Not just scriptural texts, but any books on religion/spirituality. I need to expand my already ridiculously long reading list.

I don't read much religious text these days. I love the suttas. I just finished reading Backwoods Witchcraft and Working Conjure. Both are about the authors upbringing, history, and practice of ol' school superstitious conjure practices. Other books that are religious like to me are The Conduct of Life by Ralph Emerson and Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.

I'm starting to move from traditional religious text and just read the ones in addition that pulls to me about life in general.

I guess it depends on the subjects you like. I read People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out, bits and pieces of the Quran, and what else. Anyway, it just depends on what you like and what you consider "religious/spiritual text." If it calls to you, there ya go...

 

[Unveiled Artist]

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Helped make me what I am.

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Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell - The Bertrand Russell Society Snapshot (Interesting read)

 

[SigurdReginson]

Im not really sure I'd call them religious texts in the traditional sense, The Havamal is pretty interesting. Also, the Vedas are pretty cool. Anything rooted in P.I.E. is a fun read.

 

[sun rise]

God Speaks by Meher Baba
How a Master Works by Ivy Duce
I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
The Sunlit Path by The Mother (of the Sri Aurobindo ashram)

Fictional stories:
"The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" by Cordwainer Smith
"The Dead Lady of Clown Town" by Cordwainer Smith
"Ararat" by Zenna Henderson

 

[Aupmanyav]

Tulsi Ramayana, Bhagwat Purana, Upanishads, RigVeda (for history).

 

[stvdv]

I need to expand my already ridiculously long reading list.

Strange sentence. Your list is "ridiculously long", and still you want to expand this list.

Would it not make more sense, to show us "your list" and asking us to help you strike out some titles?

 

[Dawnofhope]

The Baha’i Writings, the New Testament, the Tanakh, the Quran, Bhagavad Gita, and the Teachings of the Buddha.

 

[Vinayaka]

I am curious what everyone's favorite religious texts are. Not just scriptural texts, but any books on religion/spirituality. I need to expand my already ridiculously long reading list.

I don't read much. I did read enough to get the basics, and if those books weren't philosophical, they were about how to practice your faith. So now I don't read much, but I practice.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I am curious what everyone's favorite religious texts are. Not just scriptural texts, but any books on religion/spirituality. I need to expand my already ridiculously long reading list.

The Four Agreements
The Upanishads

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

The Torah.

 

[Sand Dancer]

The Four Agreements
The Upanishads

Read the first, need to read the second.

 

[Sand Dancer]

Seven Valleys and Four Valleys by Baha'u'llah

Added.

 

[Sand Dancer]

The Baha’i Writings, the New Testament, the Tanakh, the Quran, Bhagavad Gita, and the Teachings of the Buddha.

Sweet!

 

[Sand Dancer]

Strange sentence. Your list is "ridiculously long", and still you want to expand this list.

Would it not make more sense, to show us "your list" and asking us to help you strike out some titles?

My list is on Goodreads. Are you on it?