What is the best spiritual book you have ever read?

[PearlSeeker]

When I believed Christianity:

The Way of a Pilgrim - Wikipedia

Later:

Plato, Not Prozac! Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems. by Lou Marinoff

 

[RestlessSoul]

The Gospels
The Psalms
The Bhagavad Gita
Japanese Death Poems, edited by Joel Hoffman
The Dhammapada
The Tao te Ching
Quatrains, Jalaluddin Rumi

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Master and Margarita - Mikhael Bulgakov
Paradise Lost - John Milton

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli

 

[Father Heathen]

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse?

 

[TransmutingSoul]

I would say 'God Loves Laughter, by William Sears.

It introduces spiritual concepts in a very amusing way.

Regards Tony

 

[IndigoChild5559]

What is the best spiritual book you have ever read?

Hard to limit it to just one book. I'm assuming you aren't referring to scriptural texts.

I would have to say teh Lord of the Rings is number one. A modern myth, it contains a treasury of wisdom.

I also really got a lo out of the novel Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. I still remember the goosebumps I felt when he heard the great Ohm of the river.

 

[Truthseeker]

What is the best spiritual book you have ever read?

For me it is the Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah. The preamble goes like this:

HE IS THE GLORY OF GLORIES

This is that which hath descended from the realm of glory, uttered by the tongue of power and might, and revealed unto the Prophets of old. We have taken the inner essence thereof and clothed it in the garment of brevity, as a token of grace unto the righteous, that they may stand faithful unto the Covenant of God, may fulfill in their lives His trust, and in the realm of spirit obtain the gem of Divine virtue.
(Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words)

They are brief sayings, but there is a lot there for me when I ponder them. They are also universal spiritual sayings.

 

[Truthseeker]

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.

You are not without ambition.

 

[Truthseeker]

The Gospels
The Psalms
The Bhagavad Gita
Japanese Death Poems, edited by Joel Hoffman
The Dhammapada
The Tao te Ching
Quatrains, Jalaluddin Rumi

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Master and Margarita - Mikhael Bulgakov
Paradise Lost - John Milton

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli

It's good to have breadth of things that you like.

 

[osgart]

The dictionary; words have spiritual significance. .

There are a lot of important words that I wish I knew about the story of their invention.

 

[Viker]

Oh man. This is hard.

I'm torn on a lot of different things.

Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Paradise Lost, by John Milton.
Inno A Satana (Hymn to Satan), by Giosue Carducci. It's a poem actually. It's always resonated high up there.

There's others but those stand out at about just after 1AM in the morning.

 

[syo]

What is the best spiritual book you have ever read?

I've read many spiritual books. The pagan ones were the best!

The mainstream christians were the worst!