A Book List That Inspired My Spiritual Journey
Reading is a huge part of my spiritual practice. I have been influenced by so many walks of life beyond the parameters of “spiritual” books because I truly believe that we can find inspiration from beyond a specific genre.
I currently do not have any mini descriptions here, and none of these books are in particular order. However, I hope you find something here that you feel interested to learn more about! I’ll continue to update this list as I find more books that inspired me.
The Untethered Soul - Michael A. Singer
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD
Mindset - Dr. Carol S. Dweck
Unfollow - Megan Phelps-Roper
The Courage to Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Ikigai - Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia
Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Be Here Now - Ram Dass
Journey to the Heart - Melody Beattie
Decolonizing Wellness - Dalia Kinsey
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism - Chögyam Trungpa
Eastern Body Western Mind - Anodea Judith
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors - Janina Fisher
Angel Numbers 101 - Doreen Virtue
Do Better - Rachel Ricketts
The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
Love, Freedom, Aloneness - Osho
The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank
The Encyclopedia of Spirits - Judika Illes
The Heart of Yoga - TKV Desikachar
Meeting the Shadow - Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams
The Shadow Effect - Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Marianne Williamson
When the Body Says No - Gabor Maté
Old Path White Clouds - Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching - Thich Nhat Hanh
Living Buddha, Living Christ - Thich Nhat Hanh
Fear - Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger- Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Love - Thich Nhat Hanh
Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
Journey Into Power - Baron Baptiste
The Symposium - Plato
Republic - Plato
On Law, Morality, and Politics - Thomas Aquinas
Surrender Experiment - Michael A. Singer
The Voice of Knowledge - Don Miguel Ruiz
The Art of Possibility - Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
Everybody Lies - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung
Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead)
The Illusion of Conscious Will - Daniel Wegner
The Wellness Syndrome - Carl Cederstrom and Andre Spicer
The Happiness Industry - William Davies
Start with Why - Simon Sinek