This is a list of some of my favorite books on spiritual topics. It must be noted though that while I have much love and affection for these titles, there is nothing especially profound about any of them. It must never be forgotten that books are nothing but games. And what wonderful games some of them are, encountering the greatest can even lead to wonderful personal transformations. But books cannot give you anything that you don't already have. Two quotes I'd have you keep in mind:
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
If what you call learning means storing experiences and beliefs, it will tie you down like a cord and prevent you from knowing anything. Knowing happens directly, when not even a thought stands between you and the thing you know. Then you see yourself as you are, not as you would like to be. ~G.I. Gurdjieff
Now the list (not in any particular order)...
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| The Perennial Philosophy An Interpretation of the Great Mystics Aldous Huxley |
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| The Hidden Words Bahá'u'lláh |
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| The Quran |
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| The Gospel in Brief The Life of Jesus Leo Tolstoy |
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| Tao Te Ching Lao-Tzu |
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| The Chuang Tzu Chuang Tzu |
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| In Search of the Miraculous Fragments of an Unknown Teaching P.D. Outspensky |
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| A Brief History of Everything Ken Wilber |
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| The Phenomenon of Man Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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| T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism Hakim Bey |
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