Books like The Miracle of Mindfulness

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10% Happier

Dan Harris · Memoir

10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.

Shares mindfulness and meditation with The Miracle of Mindfulness.

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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Sam Harris · Religion & Spirituality

Waking Up is Sam Harris' argument that the insights of contemplative traditions — particularly Buddhism's claim that the sense of self is an illusion — can be separated from religious metaphysics and investigated directly through meditation and introspection.

Both dig into meditation.

03

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle · Religion & Spirituality

The Power of Now is Eckhart Tolle's argument that the root of human suffering is identification with the stream of thought — the restless inner commentary that most people mistake for who they are.

Both dig into mindfulness.

04

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jon Kabat-Zinn · Health

Wherever You Go, There You Are is Jon Kabat-Zinn's accessible introduction to mindfulness as a way of living rather than a formal therapeutic program.

Shares mindfulness and meditation with The Miracle of Mindfulness.

05

Why Buddhism Is True

Robert Wright · Religion & Spirituality

Why Buddhism Is True is Robert Wright's argument that modern evolutionary psychology and neuroscience provide independent confirmation for core Buddhist claims about the mind, suffering, and the nature of the self.

Both dig into mindfulness.

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Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom

Joseph Goldstein · Religion & Spirituality

Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom is Joseph Goldstein's distillation of vipassana — the Theravada Buddhist practice of direct investigation into the nature of mind and experience.

Shares mindfulness and meditation with The Miracle of Mindfulness.

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Mindfulness for Beginners

Jon Kabat-Zinn · Health

Mindfulness for Beginners is Jon Kabat-Zinn's entry-level introduction to mindfulness meditation.

Shares mindfulness and meditation with The Miracle of Mindfulness.

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Peace Is Every Step

Thich Nhat Hanh · Religion & Spirituality

Peace Is Every Step is Thich Nhat Hanh's most accessible work — a short, warmly written invitation to bring mindfulness practice into the texture of daily life.

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

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.

Shares meditation and present moment with The Miracle of Mindfulness.

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Full Catastrophe Living

Jon Kabat-Zinn · Health

Full Catastrophe Living is Jon Kabat-Zinn's foundational text on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), the eight-week clinical program he developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979.

Shares mindfulness and meditation with The Miracle of Mindfulness.

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Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach · Religion & Spirituality

Tara Brach, a psychologist and Buddhist meditation teacher, wrote Radical Acceptance as a response to what she calls the trance of unworthiness — the pervasive background feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with us, that we are not enough.

Both dig into mindfulness.

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The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching

Thich Nhat Hanh · Religion & Spirituality

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching is Thich Nhat Hanh's comprehensive introduction to core Buddhist teachings, written with the warmth and accessibility that characterize all of his work.

Both dig into mindfulness.