 | Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way (Compass) by Idries Shah
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.95 Shah is amazing, and years after reading this there is still so many more layers within layers!
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 | The Way of the Sufi (Compass) by Idries Shah
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.99 Words and teaching stories from the masters of Sufism
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 | Buddha of Infinite Light by Daisetz T. Suzuki
Buy used from: $5.00 Famous for Zen teaching, Suzuki-Sensei shows the profound union of Buddhism, and specifically how Shin transcends its simplicity.
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 | No Abode: The Record of Ippen (Rev) (Ryukoku-Ibs Studies in Buddhist Thought and Tradition) by Dennis Hirota
Buy used from: $5.00 Teacher by example, Ippen's profound faith and depth of transcendence are powerful exemplars!
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 | The Koran Interpreted: A Translation
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $3.43 My favorite Qu'ran translation, as it captures some of the poetic, multi layered aspects of the original. It lends itself to mystical exploration
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 | On the Road (Penguin 20th Century Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy used from: $0.10 An early inspiration, where you can see those lightning flashes without recognition that by chasing them you lose your very identity as lightning!
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 | Deliverance: Words from the Prophet by Seyedeh
Buy new: $14.00 I was a treasure...the depths of the Prophet Muhammad's connection to the One revealed in the everyday.
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 | The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert
Buy used from: $0.01 Remarkable exploration of the nature of the divine and relation to it. Beautiful poetry interspersed with a remarkable spiritual allegory.
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 | The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment by Philip Kapleau Roshi
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.65 A thorough exploration of Zen in practice, spirit and energy.
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 | A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $0.01 The namer, deepening and kything...amazing concepts that brought sparks forth and touched the divine in my childhood.
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 | New American Bible (St. Joseph Medium Size Edition)
Buy used from: $7.00 With the book not in all Bibles, and one of my favorites...Wisdom.
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| A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
Buy used from: $0.01 Nature and spirit and the bridge between realms
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 | Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold by Taitetsu Unno
Buy new: $17.10 / Used from: $5.94 Excellent introduction to the deceptively simple, infinitely profound path of Shin Buddhism.
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| Alice in Wonderland and Other Favorites
Buy used from: $0.01 Breaking through the illusion of sensible, one of the first tastes of transcendence in my childhood
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| Tannisho: A Shin Buddist Classic by Taitetsu Unno
Buy used from: $7.75 Depth of faith and exploring the profound without obsession by a disciple of Shinran
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 | The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $0.78 An introduction to the mystical variety within Christianity prior to the 4th century A.D.
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 | Neon Genesis Evangelion: Platinum Collection
Buy new: $52.49 / Used from: $34.45 Amazing teaching story of the realization of Self and oneness
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 | The Taste of Hidden Things: Images of the Sufi Path by Sara Sviri PhD
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.47 An excellent intoduction to the basics of Sufism
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 | Heart of the Koran (Quest Book) by Lex Hixon
Buy used from: $1.93 A Sufi's exloration of selected Qu'ranic texts through a mystical awareness
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 | Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $2.74 Speaks for itself
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 | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Profound short insights, a life-changing volume
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 | The Nag Hammadi Library by James M. Robinson
Buy new: $16.07 / Used from: $3.44 A larger volume of Gnostic texts
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 | Shinto Norito: A Book of Prayers by Ann Llewellyn Evans
Buy new: $19.50 / Used from: $17.50 The sound of the words, the power of ritual and the Divinity of nature
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 | The Upanishads
Buy used from: $3.18 Paths toward the center, a mystical treasure trove
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 | Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.00 One of the most accesible of the Sufi teachers, his words cover so many directions and emotions, images converging on the omnipresent convergence point from which there is no genuine divergence.
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