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Books like The Seven Storey Mountain
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton is about conversion, vocation, identity. 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.
- New Seeds of Contemplation
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Thomas Merton · Religion & Spirituality
New Seeds of Contemplation is Thomas Merton's revised and expanded version of Seeds of Contemplation, which he published in 1949 when he was still new to monastic life.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology
Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.
Read the summary → - Becoming
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Michelle Obama · Memoir
Becoming is Michelle Obama's account of how a girl from a modest house on Chicago's South Side became one of the most recognized people in the world — and what that journey cost and revealed.
Read the summary → - The Perennial Philosophy
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Aldous Huxley · Religion & Spirituality
The Perennial Philosophy is Aldous Huxley's anthology and commentary on the mystical traditions of the world, arguing that behind the diversity of religious forms lies a single metaphysical core: the divine ground or ultimate reality is one; the human soul contains a spark of this reality; the purpose of human existence is to realize this identity; and the path to that realization requires ego-transcendence through contemplation, virtue, and love.
Read the summary → - 10% Happier
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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.
Read the summary → - A Grief Observed
