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Christentum
Die Heilige Bibel

NIV Journal the Word Bible, Premium Leather
“God's group project.”
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Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
“Liar. Lunatic. Lord. Pick one. No pressure.”
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
“Every hero is the same guy in a different hat.”
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New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton
“You are not who you think you are. Neither was he.”
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The Cost of Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Grace is free. It is not cheap. He paid full price.”
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Islam
Der Heilige Koran und Hadithe

The Study Quran
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“Every verse ships with a 1,400-year argument.”
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The Heart of Islam
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“Serenity, weaponized.”
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A History of God
Karen Armstrong
“God: the unauthorized biography.”
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Purification of the Heart
Hamza Yusuf
“Envy. Vanity. Treatable.”
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Islam: A Short History
Karen Armstrong
“All of Islam, pocket-sized. God help her.”
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Judentum
Die Tora, der Talmud und die Mischna

The Five Books of Moses
Robert Alter
“In the beginning was a run-on sentence.”
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Man Is Not Alone
Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Start with awe. Everything else is commentary.”
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The Sabbath
Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Six days you grind. The seventh, you defect.”
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I and Thou
Martin Buber
“You have never truly met anyone. Not once.”
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God Is Not One
Stephen Prothero
“Eight religions. Eight problems. Zero agreement.”
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Buddhismus
Das Dhammapada und Sutras

The Dhammapada
Eknath Easwaran
“Your mind is a fish flopping around on dry land.”
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
“Sit down. Want nothing. That's it.”
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The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
Thich Nhat Hanh
“There is a cloud floating in this sentence.”
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When Things Fall Apart
Pema Chödrön
“Good news: you're falling. There's no ground.”
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The World's Religions
Huston Smith
“One man road-tested every religion.”
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Hinduismus
Die Bhagavad Gita und Upanishaden

The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran
“God parks the chariot between two armies and starts therapy.”
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
“The only book on Steve Jobs' iPad has flying saints.”
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Hinduism For Dummies
“5,000 years of God. Now with checklists.”
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Karma Yoga
Swami Vivekananda
“Work like a god. Expect nothing. Repeat.”
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The Upanishads
Eknath Easwaran
“Death takes questions. A boy has several.”
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Taoismus
Das Tao Te Ching und Zhuangzi

Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell
“Do nothing. Everything gets done.”
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The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff
“Outzenned by a bear of very little brain.”
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Zhuangzi: Basic Writings
Burton Watson
“What if the butterfly is dreaming you?”
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The Secret of the Golden Flower
Richard Wilhelm
“Point your eyes backwards and bloom.”
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The Te of Piglet
Benjamin Hoff
“Small pig. Big grudges. No honey.”
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Sufismus
Rumi, Hafis und Attar

The Essential Rumi
Coleman Barks
“America's favorite poet got translated out of Islam.”
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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
“Critics hated it. Your wedding quotes it.”
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The Conference of the Birds
Farid ud-Din Attar
“The path to God is paved with dead birds.”
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The Gift
Hafiz
“Hafiz dictated it in a dream. In English.”
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The Meccan Revelations
Ibn Arabi
“560 chapters. One author. Allegedly.”
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Stoizismus
Mark Aurel, Epiktet und Seneca

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
“You're reading the emperor's diary. He'd be horrified.”
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Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
“Rome's richest man wrote the book on wanting less.”
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Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
“The leg broke. The man did not.”
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A Guide to the Good Life
William B. Irvine
“Imagine everyone you love is dead. Now say thanks.”
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The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
“Memento mori. Subscribe.”
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Existenzialismus
Sartre, Camus und de Beauvoir

The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
“The boulder always wins. Push anyway.”
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Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
“You are a glorious hole in reality.”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
“They took his book, his family, his name. Not his why.”
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
“He shot a man because the sun was in his eyes.”
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Fear and Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard
“God said kill him. Abraham packed the donkey.”
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Vedanta-Philosophie
Die Upanishaden und Shankara

The Upanishads
Eknath Easwaran
“Death takes questions. A boy has several.”
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I Am That
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“You were never born.”
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Be As You Are
Sri Ramana Maharshi
“He died at sixteen. It vastly improved him.”
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Vivekachudamani
Adi Shankaracharya
“You saw a snake. It was rope. The universe is next.”
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Ashtavakra Samhita
“The enlightenment speedrun. No method. No merch.”
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Popkultur-Orakel
Filme, Musik, Memes und Ikonen

Emergency
Neil Strauss
“Panic, professionalized.”
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
“What if church drove a Day-Glo school bus?”
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
“The American Dream, found dead in a Vegas hotel.”
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Dune
Frank Herbert
“A homemade messiah for a planet that prays to worms.”
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
“She hated religion, so she built one — with trains.”
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Kynismus
Diogenes und die Kyniker

The Cynic Philosophers
Robert Dobbin
“Shameless. Homeless. Right.”
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The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
Jean-Manuel Roubineau
“The barrel? A jar. The lamp? Hearsay. The bite? Real.”
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Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laërtius
“Petty. Horny. Ridiculous.”
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The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity
“Diogenes pissed on polite society. It never dried.”
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau
“Quit your job. Squat by a pond. Become scripture.”
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Epikureismus
Epikur und Lukrez

The Art of Happiness
Epicurus
“Accused of orgies. Convicted of cheese. Sentenced to a garden.”
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On the Nature of Things
Lucretius
“Atoms fall forever. One swerves. You happen.”
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Letters on Happiness
Epicurus
“You were dead for eons. Went fine. Do it again sometime.”
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The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt
“Goodbye Hell. Hello you.”
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How to Be an Epicurean
Catherine Wilson
“Fire your inner Stoic. Hire a gardener. Feel things again.”
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Zen-Buddhismus
Zen-Koans und Meister

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
“Sit down. Want nothing. That's it.”
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The Way of Zen
Alan Watts
“Effortless. Allegedly.”
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Paul Reps
“A monk asks. The master hits him. Enlightenment?”
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The Three Pillars of Zen
Philip Kapleau
“He transcribed evil. Then he sat still until it burned off.”
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Dropping Ashes on the Buddha
Seung Sahn
“Open your mouth, already a mistake.”
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Absurdismus
Camus und existenzielle Rebellen

The Stranger
Albert Camus
“He shot a man because the sun was in his eyes.”
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The Plague
Albert Camus
“First the rats died. Then the people. Then the excuses.”
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The Fall
Albert Camus
“She jumped. He kept walking. Now it's your problem.”
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The Rebel
Albert Camus
“Friendship, guillotined.”
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Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus
“Offered freedom, the prisoner walked to jail.”
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