Books like Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
12 books with a reading profile close to Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential by Caroline Myss. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
by Sam Harris
Also inward-looking · personal growth, philosophy
Sam Harris argues that the feeling of selfhood is a cognitive illusion that can be dismantled through disciplined observation.
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All About Love: New Visions
by bell hooks
Also inward-looking · personal growth, philosophy
Bell hooks argues that modern society lacks a theoretical map for love because it confuses the concept with simple desire or care.
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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Also inward-looking · personal growth, philosophy
M.
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Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Also inward-looking · personal growth, philosophy
Robert Wright uses evolutionary psychology to explain why the human brain naturally generates illusions, such as road rage or recurring anxieties, which helped our ancestors survive but now cause modern misery.
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Also inward-looking · personal growth, philosophy
Michael A.
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The Seat of the Soul
by Gary Zukav
Also inward-looking · personal growth, philosophy
Gary Zukav argues that humanity is transitioning from a period of five-sensory perception to a multisensory phase of evolution.
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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
by Tara Brach
Also inward-looking · personal growth, philosophy
In Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach addresses the pervasive feeling of personal deficiency she calls the trance of unworthiness.
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
by bell hooks
Also inward-looking · personal growth, psychology
In this 2003 work, bell hooks examines the psychological toll of patriarchy on men, arguing that traditional masculine socialization forces boys to undergo a "psychic self-mutilation" by severing their connection to the…
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
Also inward-looking · personal growth, philosophy
Clarissa Pinkola Estés uses her background as a Jungian analyst and cantadora to examine the "Wild Woman" archetype, a personification of the instinctual female psyche.
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BRAVING THE TRUTH
Also inward-looking · personal growth, philosophy
This final collection of essays, curated by Sarah Bessey following the author’s death, examines the tension between traditional Christian dogma and the practice of honest doubt.
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On Love
Also inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Alain de Botton tracks the trajectory of a romantic relationship between two passengers, Chloe and Alice, who meet on a flight from Paris to London.
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The Course of Love
Also inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Alain de Botton tracks the long-term marriage of Rabih and Kirsten, moving past the initial spark of infatuation to the mundane reality of domesticity and child-rearing.
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