Scripture, theology, comparative religion, meditation, Buddhism, Vedanta and the contemplative and non-dual traditions. Read by practitioners and by readers exploring belief and inner experience.
How a search for a philosophy of his own led him to Christian theology.
Mimetic rivalry, where rivals grow alike, and the violence it unleashes in societies.
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Campbell on the recurring stories cultures tell themselves
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How Wal-Mart's culture and labour model were built.
Why Muslim-majority countries lag: an old alliance of clerics and military states.
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The life and spiritual attainment of Ramakrishna in a temple near Calcutta.
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Talks and writings on religion and the search for the sacred.
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Talks and writings on relationship as a basis for solving the world's crises.
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A novel of an adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery and its predictions.
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Talks on how fear and dependence shape lives and keep people from seeing themselves.
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Talks on intimate relationships, isolation and self-knowledge, and facing loneliness.
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Suffering comes from identifying with the mind's chatter; freedom from living now.
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A scale of human consciousness and a claimed method to test any statement's truth.
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How belief in one god shaped Western history, from religious wars to commandments.
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An introduction to Ayurveda and how to identify one's body constitution, or prakriti.
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Short reflections and practices for starting mindfulness, read at random or daily.
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You are the awareness watching your thoughts and feelings, not those thoughts.
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Nine people in India, among them a monk and a Jain nun, and how they live faith.
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A neurosurgeon in a coma describes a journey beyond this world to a divine source.
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“we will be giving you a book by Sir John Templeton: this year, ''The Essential Worldwide Laws of Life''” — Prem Watsa
Source: Fairfax Financial 2016 Shareholders' Letter, p. 26
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Religious book, outside his management writing
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A news anchor's panic attack on air leads him to meditation, and what it did for him.
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Eighty-one short chapters on the Tao, the founding text of Taoism.
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Seven practices, steadiness to timelessness, joining brain science and meditation.
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“I've been really enjoying Anthony de Mello's book Stop Fixing Yourself on this topic. It's a serious bucket of cold water over the head for anyone who's an obsessive striver.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Newsletter
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Writings by the leader of India's independence movement on practising nonviolence.
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History, spiritual teachers and nature on why community matters and how it forms.
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Philosophical fragments of an unfinished defence of the Christian religion.
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Meditations and exercises for quieting thought and living in the present moment.
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