Sacred Readings
Nourish the mind - a curated collection of wisdom to support your journey back to the self.
"There is no guidance without knowledge" Imam Ghazzali
I. Spirituality, self-Help & Healing
Anatomy Trains (Thomas Myers), Baghavad Gita (Vyasa), Beyond The Limit Bruce Lee (Bruce Thomas), Breath (James Nestor), Eastern Body & Western Mind (Anodea Judith), Gabor Mate's Works (Gabor Mate), Iron John (Robert Bly), Mastery (George Leonard), Mastery & Power (Robert Greene), Mathnawi (Rumi), Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges), Purification of the Heart (Hamza Yusuf), Quran (Traditional), Reiki For Life (Penelope Quest), Secret of Secrets (Abdul Qadir Al-Jilani), Sufism (Martin Lings), Sutras of Patanjali (Patanjali), Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu), The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey), The Analects (Confucius), The Art of Cultivating Noble Character (Al-Isfahani), The Beginning of Guidance (Imam Ghazzali), The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk), The Book of Wisdoms (Al-Iskandari), The Chimp Paradox (Steve Peters), The Four Agreements (Don Miguel Ruiz), The Garden of Truth (Seyyed Hossein Nasr), The Heart of Yoga (T.K.V. Desikachar), The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle), The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran), The Seals of Wisdom (Ibn Arabi), The Secret of the Golden Flower (C. Jung), The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (Sogyal Rinpoche), The Travels of Ibn Battuta (Ibn Battuta), Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill), Upanishads (Traditional), Waking The Tiger (Peter Levine), Women Who Run with Wolves (Clarissa Pinkola Estés), You Can Heal Yourself (Louise Hay)
II. History and Philosophy
A Human Kind: A Hopeful History (Rutger Bregman), A Modern History of Japan (Andrew Gordon), A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn), After Tamerlane (John Darwin), American Dreamer: Henry Wallace (John C. Culver and John Hyde), Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Jon Lee Anderson), China in War and Revolution 1895–1949 (Peter Zarrow), Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins), Discipline and Punish (Michel Foucault), Empires of the Atlantic World (J.H. Elliott), Freedom From the Known (Jiddu Krishnamurti), From Dictatorship to Democracy (Gene Sharp), Gandhi The Man (Eknath Easwaran), Genealogies of Religion (Talal Asad), Ho Chi Minh: A Life (William J. Duiker), How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi), Inventing Human Rights (Lynn Hunt), Lost Islamic History (Firas Alkhateeb), Martin & Malcolm & America (James H. Cone), Muhammad: A Life (Martin Lings), Native American Traditions (Arthur Versluis), Restating Orientalism (Wael Hallaq), Rubicon (Tom Holland), The Art of War (Sun Tzu), The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh (Supriya Gandhi), The Foucault Reader (Michel Foucault), The Golden Road (William Dalrymple), The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell), The Impossible State (Wael Hallaq), The Muqaddimah (Ibn Khaldun), The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander), The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), The Origins of American Slavery (Betty Wood), The Power of Ch'i (Geoff Pike), The Republic (Plato), The Secrets of the Self (Muhammad Iqbal), The Silk Road (Peter Frankopan), The Silver Way (Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales), The Souls of Black Folks (W.E.B. Du Bois), The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (Bernal Díaz del Castillo), Walden and Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
III. fiction and literature
1984 (George Orwell), A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth), Animal Farm (George Orwell), Beezelbub's Tales to His Grandson (G.I. Gurdjieff), Beloved (Toni Morrison), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Cairo Trilogy (Naguib Mahfouz), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller), Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio), Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes), Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert), Foundation Trilogy (Isaac Asimov), Germinal (Emile Zola), Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), Human Comedy (Honore de Balzac), In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust), Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), Les Miserables (Victor Hugo), Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert), Middlemarch (George Eliot), Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass), Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck), Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens), Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz), Shogun (James Clavell), Siddharta (Hermann Hesse), Taiko (Eiji Yoshikawa), The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), The Book of Mirdad (Mikhail Naimy), The Conference of the Bird (Attar of Nishapur), The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas), The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous), The Essential Kafka (Franz Kafka), The Iliad and Odyssey (Homer), The Karamazov Brothers (Fyodor Dostoevsky), The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa), The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Tupac Shakur), The Untethered Soul (Michael A. Singer), Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray), War & Peace (Leo Tolstoy), Wild Swans (Jung Chang)