Books like The Untethered Soul

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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.

Shares consciousness and presence with The Untethered Soul.

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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.

Shares consciousness and presence with The Untethered Soul.

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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.

Shares consciousness and the self with The Untethered Soul.

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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.

A kindred religion & spirituality read.

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The Bhagavad Gita

Anonymous · Religion & Spirituality

The Bhagavad Gita — the Song of the Lord — is an episode embedded in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, composed between the 5th and 2nd centuries BCE.

Shares the self and liberation with The Untethered Soul.

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Sogyal Rinpoche · Religion & Spirituality

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is Sogyal Rinpoche's comprehensive introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist understanding of death and the dying process, written for a Western audience unfamiliar with the tradition.

Shares consciousness and liberation with The Untethered Soul.

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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.

Both dig into liberation.

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The Dhammapada

Anonymous · Religion & Spirituality

The Dhammapada — Path of Truth or Path of the Dhamma — is the most widely read canonical Buddhist text in the world, a collection of 423 verses attributed to the Buddha and compiled from the Pali Canon.

Both dig into liberation.

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The Perennial Philosophy

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.

Both dig into the self.

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James · Religion & Spirituality

The Varieties of Religious Experience originated as the Gifford Lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1901–1902 and immediately became one of the most celebrated works in the study of religion.

Both dig into consciousness.

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The Way of Zen

Alan Watts · Religion & Spirituality

The Way of Zen was Alan Watts' most widely read and carefully argued work, published in 1957 at a time when Zen was largely unknown to English-speaking audiences.

Both dig into consciousness.

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

trans. Sri Swami Satchidananda · Religion & Spirituality

The Yoga Sutras is a foundational text of classical Indian philosophy, compiled by the sage Patanjali — likely around 400 CE, though some scholars place the compilation earlier or later.

Both dig into liberation.