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The Beginner's Library 09
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The Beginner's Library

If you're new — these are the books most often pointed to as the first turn off the highway.

The Power of Now Book 229 pp

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle · New World Library · 1997
The Bible Book

The Bible

Various · Robert Barker · 1611
The Qur'an Book 464 pp

The Qur'an

Various · Oxford University Press · 2004
The Road Less Traveled Book 316 pp

The Road Less Traveled

M. Scott Peck · Simon and Schuster · 1978
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Book 418 pp

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig · William Morrow and Company · 1974
The Divine Comedy Book 960 pp

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri · Everyman's Library · 1321
The Torah / Hebrew Bible Book 1624 pp

The Torah / Hebrew Bible

Various · Jewish Publication Society · 1985
The Bhagavad Gita Book 296 pp

The Bhagavad Gita

Vyasa · Nilgiri Press · 2007
The Analects Book 249 pp

The Analects

Confucius · Penguin Books · -475
The I Ching Book 806 pp

The I Ching

Various · Princeton University Press · -800
The Guru Granth Sahib Book 1430 pp

The Guru Granth Sahib

Sikh Gurus · Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee · 1604
The Zohar Book 320 pp

The Zohar

Moses de León · Paulist Press · 1286
The Lotus Sutra Book 359 pp

The Lotus Sutra

Various · Columbia University Press · 1993
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Book 425 pp

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Sogyal Rinpoche · HarperSanFrancisco · 1992
Letters from a Stoic Book 256 pp

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca · Penguin Classics · 65
The Seven Storey Mountain Book 429 pp

The Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton · Harcourt Brace · 1948
The Story of My Experiments with Truth Book 560 pp

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Mahatma Gandhi · Beacon Press · 1927
The Pilgrim's Progress Book 324 pp

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan · Nathaniel Ponder · 1678
The Cost of Discipleship Book 320 pp

The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer · Touchstone · 1937
The Upanishads Book 384 pp

The Upanishads

Eknath Easwaran · Nilgiri Press · 2007
The Egyptian Book of the Dead Book

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Various · Dover Publications · -1550
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works Book 237 pp

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

Dan Harris · It Books · 2014
The Heart Sutra Book 208 pp

The Heart Sutra

Various · Counterpoint · 2004
The Diamond Sutra Book 240 pp

The Diamond Sutra

Various · Counterpoint · 2001

Other collections

  1. 01 The Awakening Path Starter trail
  2. 02 Foundations of Non-Duality Reading path
  3. 03 Modern Mystics Voices
  4. 04 The Science of Mind Where it meets the lab
  5. 05 Esoteric Currents The hidden tradition
  6. 06 New Thought & Manifestation The American tradition