Books like The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
12 books with a reading profile close to The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.
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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Alan Watts argues that people's sense of insecurity comes from trying to find permanence and certainty in a world that is always changing.
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Franny and Zooey
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Franny and Zooey consists of two connected narratives centered on the youngest members of the Glass family, a group of former child prodigies.
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The Dhammapada
by Anonymous
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
The Dhammapada is a collection of 423 verses attributed to the Buddha, arranged in twenty-six chapters on themes such as the mind, the fool and the wise person, anger, the thirst of craving, old age, and the path.
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The Essential Rumi
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Coleman Barks translates the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic’s Persian verses into contemporary English free verse.
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
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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Man and His Symbols
by C.G. Jung
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Man and His Symbols serves as an introduction to analytical psychology, explaining how the unconscious mind communicates through dream imagery and universal archetypes.
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The Prophet
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
The narrative centers on Almustafa, a prophet who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for twelve years.
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Be Here Now
by Ram Dass
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Richard Alpert was a Harvard psychology professor and LSD researcher until a trip to India led him to his guru, Neem Karoli Baba.
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The Problem of Pain
by C.S. Lewis
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
In this work, C.S.
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by C.G. Jung
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
In this autobiography, C.G.
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Demian
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, psychology
Emil Sinclair grows up in a conventional, pious household, struggling to reconcile the "world of light" represented by his family with the "world of darkness" he observes in the streets.
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