Books like The Wisdom of Insecurity

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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.

Both dig into consciousness.

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Tao Te Ching

Laozi · Philosophy

The Tao Te Ching is one of the most translated texts in world literature and the foundational scripture of Taoism.

A kindred philosophy read.

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Man's Search for Meaning

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.

A kindred philosophy read.

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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy

Meditations is not a book Marcus Aurelius wrote for anyone to read.

Both dig into impermanence.

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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.

A kindred philosophy read.

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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

David Eagleman · Philosophy

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives is a collection of forty short, fictional vignettes, each imagining a different version of what happens after death.

Shares identity and consciousness with The Wisdom of Insecurity.

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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Alan Watts · Philosophy

The Book, published in 1966, is Alan Watts's most direct attempt to explain the central illusion he spent his career examining: the belief that each of us is a separate self, enclosed in skin, confronting an alien world.

Shares identity and consciousness with The Wisdom of Insecurity.

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The Mind's I

Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett · Philosophy

The Mind's I is a collaborative anthology edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, two of the most influential thinkers on consciousness and mind of the late twentieth century.

Shares identity and consciousness with The Wisdom of Insecurity.

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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 impermanence and consciousness with The Wisdom of Insecurity.

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Ulysses

James Joyce · Literary fiction

Ulysses takes place on a single day — June 16, 1904 — in Dublin, following three characters: Leopold Bloom, an advertising canvasser; his wife Molly; and Stephen Dedalus, the young writer from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Shares identity and consciousness with The Wisdom of Insecurity.

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Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre · Philosophy

Being and Nothingness is Sartre's major philosophical treatise and the founding text of French existentialism.

Both dig into consciousness.

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Consciousness Explained

Daniel C. Dennett · Philosophy

Consciousness Explained is Daniel Dennett's attempt to replace what he calls the Cartesian Theater — the intuitive picture of consciousness as a single unified stream of experience observed by a self — with a model he calls Multiple Drafts.

Both dig into consciousness.