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What is the best spiritual book you have ever read?
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PoetPhilosopher
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That's a hard question for me, but I do have a recommendation for others who enjoy reading Abrahamic literature.
The public domain book "Pearl Maiden":
Pearl-maiden
The Four Agreements ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
The Book of Certitude by Baha’u’llah.
https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/kitab-i-iqan/kitab-i-iqan.pdf?a5eb272d
TagliatelliMonster
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This might sound as a joke, but I actually mean it
Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer : Stone, George Lawrence: Amazon.com.be: Books
The "bible" of drumming.
Playing drums is how I experience my "spirituality".
The Mahabharata.
I dunno about "best" but one of the best religious books I happened to read at the right time was:
You Are Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence by UIT Cambridge Ltd.
Memoirs are not a genre I read. I don't know why I picked up this book years ago at the public library. Maybe it was something about the title and it's play on words that caught my attention. But I thoroughly enjoy how this book challenges and shatters self-centered norms so prevalent in Western philosophy and in our general way of thinking about the world. I'd always hated the saying "I think, therefore I am" but at the time wasn't able to articulate why very well. This book does it for me.
You Are Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence by UIT Cambridge Ltd.
Memoirs are not a genre I read. I don't know why I picked up this book years ago at the public library. Maybe it was something about the title and it's play on words that caught my attention. But I thoroughly enjoy how this book challenges and shatters self-centered norms so prevalent in Western philosophy and in our general way of thinking about the world. I'd always hated the saying "I think, therefore I am" but at the time wasn't able to articulate why very well. This book does it for me.
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
The Bible.
Gita.
Yep, though I’ve only read excerpts and condensations. However, the Gita is my go-to.
I've read condensations, too. I did buy a complete translation(which takes up almost a whole bookshelf) not long ago; hope to get it all read eventually.
The Daodejing is a darn good book.
Ah yes, and the Hávamál. How could I forget them!?
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
"The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life" by Jean Francis Revel and Matthieu Ricard. Ricard is a former French scientist who became a monk who is now an advisor to the Dalai Lama.
It is by far the most thought-provoking book I have ever read.
I think the ones I got the most out of were the books in the Don Juan series by Carlos Castaneda.
Carlos Castaneda - Wikipedia
Carlos Castaneda - Wikipedia