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      • Stanley Milgram - Obedience To Authority
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      • Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
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Tom Butler-Bowdon

spiritual classics

50 Spiritual Classics
(2017 edition)
by Tom Butler-Bowdon


50 Spiritual Classics captures the diversity of life journeys that span centuries, continents, spiritual traditions and secular beliefs: from the historical The Book of Chuang Tzu to modern insight from the Kabbalah, from St. Augustine’s Confessions to Rick Warren’s phenomenon The Purpose-Driven Life. The first and only bite-sized guide to the very best in spiritual writing.

Below is a list of books covered in 50 Spiritual Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on self-discovery, enlightenment and purpose. Click on a link to see a sample chapter.

  1. Muhammad Asad The Road To Mecca (1954)
  2. St Augustine Confessions (400)
  3. Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
  4. Black Elk Black Elk Speaks (1932)
  5. Richard Maurice Bucke Cosmic Consciousness (1901)
  6. Fritjof Capra The Tao of Physics (1976)
  7. Carlos Castaneda Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
  8. GK Chesterton St Francis of Assisi (1922)
  9. Pema Chödrön The Places That Scare You (2001)
  10. Chuang Tzu The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th century BCE)
  11. Ram Dass Be Here Now (1971)
  12. Epictetus Enchiridion (1st century)
  13. Mohandas Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927)
  14. Al-Ghazzali The Alchemy of Happiness (1097)
  15. Kahlil Gibran The Prophet (1923)
  16. GI Gurdjieff Meetings With Remarkable Men (1960)
  17. Dag Hammarskjold Markings (1963)
  18. Abraham Joshua Heschel The Sabbath (1951)
  19. Herman Hesse Siddartha (1922)
  20. Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception (1954)
  21. William James The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
  22. Carl Gustav Jung Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1955)
  23. Margery Kempe The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
  24. J Krishnamurti Think On These Things (1964)
  25. CS Lewis The Screwtape Letters (1942)
  26. Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)
  27. Daniel C Matt The Essential Kabbalah (1994)
  28. Dan Millman The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1989)
  29. W Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge (1944)
  30. Thich Nhat Hanh The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975)
  31. Michael Newton Journey of Souls (1994)
  32. John O'Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (1998)
  33. Robert M Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
  34. James Redfield The Celestine Prophecy (1994)
  35. Miguel Ruiz The Four Agreements (1997)
  36. Helen Schucman & William Thetford A Course in Miracles (1976)
  37. Idries Shah The Way of the Sufi (1968)
  38. Starhawk The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979)
  39. Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970)
  40. Emanuel Swedenborg Heaven and Hell (1758)
  41. Teresa of Avila Interior Castle (1570)
  42. Mother Teresa A Simple Path (1994)
  43. Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now (1998)
  44. Chögyam Trungpa Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973)
  45. Neale Donald Walsch Conversations With God (1998)
  46. Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Life (2002)
  47. Simone Weil Waiting For God (1979)
  48. Ken Wilber A Theory of Everything (2000)
  49. Paramahansa Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi (1974)
  50. Gary Zukav The Seat of the Soul (1990)
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"What an uplifting journey I had reading 50 Spiritual Classics! If you only ever read one spiritual book, let is be this one. Tom Butler-Bowdon's insightful and inspirational commentaries cover an amazing range of ideas and writings. I predict that 50 Spiritual Classics will become a classic in itself."

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"A kaleidoscope of inspiration ...insightful commentaries on each classic and biographical information on the authors. A unique overview of spirituality."

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  • Home
  • 50 Classics Series
    • 50 Self-Help Classics >
      • James Allen - As A Man Thinketh
      • Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends and Influence People
      • Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
      • Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance
      • Benjamin Franklin - Autobiography
      • Louise Hay - You Can Heal Your Life
      • Joseph Murphy - The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
      • Samuel Smiles - Self-Help
      • Teilhard de Chardin - The Phenomenon of Man
    • 50 Success Classics >
      • Claude M Bristol - The Magic of Believing
      • Jim Collins - Good To Great
      • Russell H Conwell - Acres of Diamonds
      • Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
      • Catherine Ponder - The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
      • David J Schwartz - The Magic of Thinking Big
      • Wallace Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich
    • 50 Spiritual Classics >
      • Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan
      • Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
      • Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
      • Carl Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
      • Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe
      • CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
      • Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements
      • 50 More Spiritual Classics
    • 50 Psychology Classics >
      • Eric Berne - Games People Play
      • Isabel Briggs Myers - Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
      • Louann Brizendine - The Female Brain
      • David D Burns - Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
      • Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
      • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Creativity
      • Albert Ellis - A Guide To Rational Living
      • Milton Erickson - Teaching Tales
      • Erik Erikson - Young Man Luther
      • Hans Eysenck - Dimensions of Personality
      • Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams
      • Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
      • Carl Jung - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
      • Alfred Kinsey - Sexuality In The Human Female
      • Abraham Maslow - Motivation and Personality
      • Stanley Milgram - Obedience To Authority
      • IP Pavlov - Conditioned Reflexes
      • Jean Piaget - The Language and Thought of the Child
      • Carl Rogers - On Becoming A Person
      • BF Skinner - Beyond Freedom & Dignity
    • 50 Prosperity Classics >
      • James Allen - The Path to Prosperity
      • Genevieve Behrend - Your Invisible Power
      • Richard Branson - Losing My Virginity
      • Warren Buffett - The Essays of Warren Buffett
      • Rhonda Byrne - The Secret
      • Andrew Carnegie - The Gospel of Wealth
      • Felix Dennis - How To Get Rich
      • Peter Drucker - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
      • Harv Eker - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
      • Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom
      • Michael E Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited
      • Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor
      • Esther & Jerry Hicks - Ask And It Is Given
      • Conrad Hilton - Be My Guest
      • Joe Karbo - The Lazy Man's Way To Riches
      • Catherine Ponder - Open Your Mind To Prosperity
      • Ayn Rand - Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
      • Donald Trump - The Art of the Deal
      • Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
      • Prosperity Principles
    • 50 Philosophy Classics >
      • Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
      • Heraclitus - Fragments
      • Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
      • Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
      • Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage
      • John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
      • Montaigne - Essays
      • Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
      • Plato - The Republic
      • Karl Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery
      • John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
      • Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness
      • Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan
      • Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
    • 50 Politics Classics
    • 50 Economics Classics
    • 50 Business Classics
  • Capstone Classics
    • Think and Grow Rich
    • The Science of Getting Rich
    • The Art of War
    • The Prince
    • The Wealth of Nations
    • The Republic
    • The Tao Te Ching
    • Meditations
    • Beyond Good and Evil
    • Origin of Species
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