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Books like Wherever You Go, There You Are
The best books like Wherever You Go, There You Are are Full Catastrophe Living, The Power of Now, and 10% Happier. Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn is about mindfulness, presence, meditation. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Full Catastrophe Living
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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 Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Read the summary → - The Power of Now
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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 mindfulness and presence with Wherever You Go, There You Are.
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.
Shares mindfulness and meditation with Wherever You Go, There You Are.
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- 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.
Both dig into presence.
Read the summary → - Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
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Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Greg McKeown · Self-help
Effortless is McKeown's follow-up to Essentialism, and where that book asked which things matter, this one asks why the right things always feel so hard.
Both dig into simplicity.
Read the summary → - Mindfulness for Beginners
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Jon Kabat-Zinn · Health
Mindfulness for Beginners is Jon Kabat-Zinn's entry-level introduction to mindfulness meditation.
Shares mindfulness and meditation with Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Read the summary → - Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom
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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 Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Read the summary → - The Miracle of Mindfulness
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Thich Nhat Hanh · Religion & Spirituality
The Miracle of Mindfulness is Thich Nhat Hanh's introduction to mindfulness practice, originally written in Vietnamese as a letter to a fellow monk.
Shares mindfulness and meditation with Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Read the summary → - Food Rules
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Michael Pollan · Health
Food Rules is Michael Pollan's shortest and most direct book: sixty-four simple rules for eating, distilled from his longer works and from the accumulated wisdom of food cultures around the world.
Both dig into simplicity.
Read the summary → - The Mindful Way Through Depression
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The Mindful Way Through Depression
Mark Williams · Health
The Mindful Way Through Depression is a clinical self-help book by four researchers — Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn — who developed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, a treatment program with strong evidence for reducing depression relapse.
Both dig into mindfulness.
Read the summary → - The Relaxation Response
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Herbert Benson · Health
In 1975, Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson published a compact, research-backed argument that the body carries a built-in counterforce to stress — one that medicine had largely ignored.
Both dig into meditation.
Read the summary → - A Wealth of Common Sense
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Ben Carlson · Economics
A Wealth of Common Sense is Ben Carlson's argument that individual investors outperform most professionals not by being smarter but by doing fewer things and making fewer mistakes.
Both dig into simplicity.
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Books like Wherever You Go, There You Are: quick answers
What are the best books like Wherever You Go, There You Are?
The best books like Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn are Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, 10% Happier by Dan Harris, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Wherever You Go, There You Are, such as mindfulness, presence, meditation.
What should I read after Wherever You Go, There You Are?
A natural next read after Wherever You Go, There You Are is Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Shares mindfulness and meditation with Wherever You Go, There You Are. Other strong choices are The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, 10% Happier by Dan Harris, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle.
What books are similar to Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn?
Wherever You Go, There You Are centers on mindfulness, presence, meditation. Books with a similar feel include Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, 10% Happier by Dan Harris, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown, Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
