Books like The Weight of Glory
12 books with a reading profile close to The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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The Art Spirit
by Robert Henri
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Robert Henri presents a collection of letters, lectures, and studio notes that formulate a philosophy of creative living rather than a technical manual.
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The Imitation of Christ
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Written as a set of instructions for the inner life, this text posits that spiritual progress requires the systematic rejection of worldly vanity and the active suppression of the ego.
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The Cost of Discipleship
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Dietrich Bonhoeffer centers his argument on the distinction between cheap grace and costly grace.
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The little flowers of the glorious Messer St. Francis and of his friars
by Francis of Assisi, Heywood, William, 1857-1919
Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, inspirational
This collection of legends and anecdotes captures the early history of the Franciscan order, centering on the ministry of Saint Francis and his close companions like Brother Leo and Brother Bernard.
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Letters from a Stoic
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
This collection of correspondence from the statesman Seneca to his friend Lucilius provides a practical blueprint for the Roman school of Stoicism.
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Henry Thoreau documents two years spent in a self-built cabin near Concord, Massachusetts, where he practiced deliberate solitude to study the economy of basic living.
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
by Aldo Leopold
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, inspirational
Aldo Leopold chronicles the ecological changes on his family’s Wisconsin farm through a monthly journal of Phenology, documenting the seasonal behaviors of migratory birds, local flora, and soil cycles.
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Letters from a Stoic
by Seneca
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Lucius Annaeus Seneca authored this collection of practical correspondence addressed to his friend Lucilius.
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Meditations
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
Marcus Aurelius wrote these personal journals while leading military campaigns, using the pages to practice Stoic exercises rather than to address an audience.
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The Practice of the Presence of God
Also inward-looking and contemplative · philosophy, inspirational
Brother Lawrence, a seventeenth-century lay brother in a Carmelite monastery, suggests that spiritual devotion belongs in the kitchen and the garden as much as the chapel.
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Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám
by Omar Khayyam, Tomoyé Press Bkp Cu-Banc
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, inspirational
The Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám presents a series of four-line stanzas, or quatrains, attributed to the eleventh-century Persian polymath Omar Khayyám and translated into English by Edward FitzGerald.
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