Helpful Texts

Here are some texts that I have found helpful.  I am grateful to the authors and translators of these prolific teachings.  I will update this list as I continue my studies.

  • The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
  • Mysticism East and West by Rudolf Otto
  • Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart
  • The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart translated by Maurice O'C Walshe
  • The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counselling by Anonymous
  • The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
  • Francis of Assisi in His Own Words: The Essential Writings by St. Francis of Assisi
  • Confessions by St. Augustine
  • New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
  • The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
  • The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism by Daniel Matt
  • The Upanishads translated by Ekanth Easwaran
  • The Bhagavad Gita translated by Ekanth Easwaran
  • Brahma Sutras by Badarayana translated by Swami Sivananda
  • Ashtavakra Gita by Ashtavakra
  • The Roots of Vedanta: Selections from Sankara's Writings by Sankara
  • The Dhammapada translated by Ekanth Easwaran
  • The Heart Sutra by Avalokiteśvara
  • The Bodhicarayavata by Santideva translated by Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton
  • The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects by Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden
  • The Zen Reader edited by Thomas Cleary
  • The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
  • The Secret of the Golden Flower translated by Thomas Cleary
  • Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan Watts
  • The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton
  • The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
  • Seneca Six Pack by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • A Spinoza Reader by Benedict de Spinoza translated by Edwin Curley
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • The Red Book by Carl Jung
  • The Kybalion by Three Initiates
  • The Art of True Healing by Israel Regardie
  • The Aphorisms by Franz Kafka
  • This Is Water by David Foster Wallace

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