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What is the best book you could recommend?

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What was that book that changed it all? I would enjoy this topic to be of very high quality, revealing those books of immense wisdom across human history. I want to devote this summer to reading, from the Bhagavad-gītā, to the Diamond Sutra, Autobiography Of A Yogi or Yoga Vasistha... To list some. Having the opportunity of being part of this forum I would really enjoy listening to your advice. There is no requirement about any specific topic whatsoever, the only requirement is mastery and supreme quality.

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The life divine - sri aurobindo

The nature of conciousness- rupert spira

Punk science inside the mind of god

The wisdom of the overself - paul brunton

Yoga vashista

I AM THAT- Nisargadatta maharaj

Why materialism is baloney - bernardo kastrup

Cloud of unknowing

Return to the one - Brian Hines 

Emptiness dancing - adyashanti

Awareness - osho

Proof of heaven - Dr. Eben alexander.

The heart of plotinus - algis uzdavinys 

Decoding jungs metaphysics  - bernardo kastrup

Enlightened mind, divine mind - paul brunton

Be as you are the teachings of sri ramana maharashi - David godman. 

Yeah I like to read ??

I got more in store but this is a good list imo.

Amazing life transforming books, if applied ofcourse ?


Let thy speech be better then silence, or be silent.

- Pseudo-dionysius 

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Conversations with God, 9 Book Catalogue by Neale Donald Walsch.

Spinoza's Ethics.


"I believe you are more afraid of condemning me to the stake than for me to receive your cruel and disproportionate punishment."

- Giordano Bruno, Campo de' Fiori, Rome, Italy. February 17th, 1600.

Cosmic pluralist, mathematician and poet.

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My favorite right now is "Being Aware of Being Aware" by Rupert Spira.

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If you're a woman, you neeeed to read Women Who Run with the Wolves ;)


"You Create Magic" 

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The book of not knowing by Peter Ralston!

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Power of Now by Eckhar Tolle would be my bible, have reread it a couple of times over the years and there was always something new I had discovered. New earth is great too.


Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.

 

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What Is Life? - Erwin Schrödinger (famous quantum physicist and Vedanta enthusiast)

Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad - James Oroc

Consciousness Is Everything: The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism - Swami Shankarananda

DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman, M.D.

Why Materialism is Baloney - Bernardo Kastrup (sans the psi stuff)

Being Aware of Being Aware - Rupert Spira

LSD: My Problem Child - Albert Hofmann

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The DMT and LSD books I got to understand the history and nature of these substances out of interest. They are important cornerstones of modern psychedelic history.

I just have these books to cement my own understanding of my own experiences. Sometimes a person can verbalize something you have experienced or are thinking in a way that allows integration.

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The best book is subjective, and depends on where you are in your unique spiritual journey.

For me, before awakening it was The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle). After awakening, it was the Bhagavad Gita (Eknath Easwaran translation). There are many, many others but these two books are magnificent milestones for me.


Just because God loves you doesn't mean it is going to shape the cosmos to suit you. God loves you so much that it will shape you to suit the cosmos.

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The Life Divine-Sri Aurobindo

A Course in Miracles-Helen Schucman

Naša joga i prosvjetljenje-Žarko Karišik Durmitara

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Anything by Tony Parsons or Robert Wolfe.


“Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.” — Eckhart Tolle.

"I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside." -- Rumi

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Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch. :) 


I am Lord of Heaven, Second Coming of Jesus Christ. ❣ Warning: nobody here has reached the true God.

         ┊ ┊⋆ ┊ . ♪ 星空のディスタンス ♫┆彡 what are you dreaming today?

                           天国が来る | 私は道であり、真実であり、命であり。

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