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Books like The Cloud of Unknowing
The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous is about contemplation, apophatic theology, prayer. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Interior Castle
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Teresa of Ávila · Religion & Spirituality
The Interior Castle was written in 1577, when Teresa of Ávila was sixty-two and had already spent decades as a Carmelite reformer.
Read the summary → - Dark Night of the Soul
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John of the Cross · Religion & Spirituality
Dark Night of the Soul is a systematic commentary on a short poem John of the Cross wrote while imprisoned in Toledo in 1577.
Read the summary → - The Practice of the Presence of God
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The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence · Religion & Spirituality
The Practice of the Presence of God is a short collection of conversations and letters recorded by a French Carmelite friar named Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, compiled and published posthumously in 1692.
Read the summary → - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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Shunryu Suzuki · Religion & Spirituality
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a collection of informal talks given by Shunryu Suzuki to his students at the San Francisco Zen Center in the late 1960s, edited and compiled by Trudy Dixon and published in 1970.
Read the summary → - A History of God
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Karen Armstrong · Religion & Spirituality
A History of God is Karen Armstrong's account of how the idea of God has changed over four thousand years across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, with excursions into Hinduism and Buddhism.
Read the summary → - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle · Religion & Spirituality
A New Earth is Eckhart Tolle's follow-up to The Power of Now, applying the same framework of presence and ego-transcendence to a broader account of human dysfunction and its transformation.
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