“Reading is an act of faith, a journey of the spirit.”
An essential reader for anyone, but particularly the westerner, who hopes to grow their spiritual nature.
Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization)
In the dirtiest, smallest, poorest, and most forgotten places can the cry of spirituality be heard… similar to the cry that erupted from a hovel in Bethlehem.
The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) - Books
Here and there, to and fro, an excellent novel on the mystery of evil or perhaps the nature of good?
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Lewis writes Sci Fi? Well, only if it is actually about Eden…
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2) by C.S. Lewis
The stark difficulty of a real spiritual community, real spiritual fellowship.
Life Together: Classic Christian Community
Ah Chesterton, even today your thinking still holds up. Apologetics from the king of apology!
The Everlasting Man
Suffering and persecution, central to the development of the soul. “Silence”gives the soul a glimpse without the physical presence of hardship.
Silence: A Novel (Picador Classics) - Books
The soul sees one way or another. Maybe the omens can tell us?
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke
Wait, certain beliefs means different behaviors? Why can’t I hord my money?
Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891)
The soul permeates all religious stories, that is the common thread.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
Ethics, Ethics, Ethics! Maybe irrelevant if not Christian, but could be relevant to apply for your own ethical positions
The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics
It was never cheap. That is, if you value what we call “life.” Truly, Bonhoeffer’s price seems unreasonable in today’s world… probably something we should heed.
The Cost of Discipleship: Bonhoeffer, Metaxas
I always wondered how a Danish bachelor figured out how souls relate to one another. I guess that speaks to love’s intuitiveness.
Works of Love (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
One can be dead while “living.” But, maybe living isn’t meaningless is the hallucination and death is the reality.
Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall-street
Live deliberately. Suck the marrow from the bones of life.
Walden: Thoreau, Henry David: 9781619493919
Perhaps not a traditional read for the spiritual, this book gives interesting insight into how the spirit might be suffocating in today’s busyness.
