50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom From 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose - Softcover

Tom Butler-Bowdon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857883497 ISBN 13: 9781857883497

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

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 Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet to Eckhart Tolle's recent The Power of Now.

The first and only bite-sized guide to the very best in spiritual writing, this one-of-a-kind collection includes personal memoirs and complelling biographies of such diverse figures as Gandhi, Malcolm X and Black Elk; Eastern philosophers and gurus including Krishnamurti, Yogananda, Chogyam Trungpa and Shunryu Suzuki; and Western saints and mystics such as St. Frances of Assisi, Hermann Hesse and Simone Weil.

The last fifteen years have been a golden age in the genre of personal spitirual awakening, with names such as Eckhart Tolle, Neale Donald Walsch and James Redfield breathing new life into the literature. 50 Spiritual Classics showcases these newer works alongside traditional classics such as St Augustine's Confessions and Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle, and conveys the great variety of spiritual experience. In its commentaries of both the conventional classics as well as new writings destined to endure, 50 Spiritual Classics makes universal the human spiritual experience and will inspire spiritual seekers everywhere to begin their own adventure.

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Review:

A kaleidoscope of inspiration ...insightful commentaries on each classic and biographical information on the authors. A unique overview of Spirituality. (Watkins Review)

What an uplifting journey I had... If you only ever read one spiritual book, let is be this one. (Susan Jeffers PhD, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway)

From the Publisher:

The keenly awaited third and final book in the '50 Classics' triology by award- winning authorTom Butler-Bowdon. This time, the 50 classics are drawn from the timeless wisdom of authors such as St Augustine, Carlos Castaneda, Kahlil Gibran, Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mother Teresa, G. I. Gurdjieff, Ken Wilber and many others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1857883497
• ISBN 13: 9781857883497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336