Question by de toute beauté: What is the most spiritual book you have ever read aside from your religion’s holy texts?
I was wondering what other spiritual book have you found comfort in besides the Bible, the Talmud, the Torah, the Qur’an, the Kangyur, the Tengyur, the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas and the Upanishads. And why do you consider it so spiritual and comforting?
Best answer:
Answer by Captain Oldspice
Harry Potter!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! JK lol
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The Secret is the book that changed my view of life forever. The Secret led me to Abraham-Hicks which teaches the answers to humankind’s questions, ALL of humankind’s questions. Abraham-Hicks is the absolute truth.
My religion doesn’t actually have a holy text, per say, so I’d have to say the best spiritual book I’ve read was “The Satanic Bible” by Anton LaVey.
A hymn book. I grew up singing the hymns – as I grew older, I understood what they meant to me (and found out about some of the people who wrote them).
LMAO, anybody who reads the Secret and gets something out of it is a TOTAL IDIOT!!!!
lol lol lol lol
If Religions involved, its not spiritual…. Like the Constitution… Its spiritual! Why do you think things are so screwed up today… RELIGION! A disease that has claimed more lives than anything natural! A book that i have read that is awesome aside from The Bible, is Pilgrims Progress!
I’ve read most of Confucius’ Analects & Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching.
It was for a class, but I’d like to read & study them again sometime.
Some biographies somewhat border into spiritual territory as well.
It is called “Beyond the Secret.” —by Lisa Love.
It tells you how to shift your life, thoughts and ideas beyond your ‘self’ and focus your living on a higher level.
the LOLCat Bible
“Are Men Really Necessary?”
That was a very spiritual book for me.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski – profound writing on evil, suffering, and redemption.
Waking The Dead by: John Eldredge it’s an amazing book! i highly recomend it
A chapter on the humane dispatching of turtle doves prior to dressing them for cooking by Alice B. Toklas. Because she was a fabulous writer, and we all kill in order that we may live.
Hans Christian Anderson’s works seem to hold a lot of inner meaning to me. I don’t know if anybody else gets it though.
“Diary of Saint Faustina”
It helped deepen my understanding of God’s mercy and love. It spurred me on to learn more about my faith and helped me to return to the Church during a very difficult time.
The Book (on the taboo against knowing who you are) by Alan Watts
I read this first when it first came out in paperback, which was in the 1960s. I read it again, as I recall, while I was in college in the early 1970s. It affected me profoundly, especially as I was a philosophy major and somewhat experienced in reading deeply abstract and analytical textbooks. Here was one that said things in plain English and used metaphors and illustrations I could understand without an intellectual struggle. It spoke to the depths of me.
I’m not sure about the comforting part, though. It raises as many questions as it answers. But that’s the nature of Zen, which is the primary inspiration for The Book. As you may know, Alan Watts had a unique background in spiritual development, and was able to see things from several different cultural viewpoints. Perhaps that’s what made his insights so valuable.
I wouldn’t say I felt “comfort” nor did I feel “spiritual” — but I have read other religious texts. I will freely admit my own faith has SOOO much to research and read I spend more time in my own faith than in others.
That is not the way it’s always been: I did search, study and lear when I was younger.
I have to say one of the most interesting (ahem) books has been the Muslim version of the Kama-Sutra. Banned for many years, but of course — all great banned-books survive, don’t they? Good fun.
RUMI
If you have not read Rumi….I sympathize for you. Rumi is just amazing…amazing. He changes lives. Hes the number one selling poet in the West, and guess where he is from? The East (specifically Afghanistan)
Here let me put one poem of his as an example:
I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not.
I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there.
I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not.
With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only ‘anqa’s habitation.
Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even.
Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range.
I fared then to the scene of the Prophet’s experience of a great divine manifestation only a “two bow-lengths’ distance from him” but God was not there even in that exalted court.
Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.
I rather enjoyed “Gooberz” by the late Linda Goodman.
Of course, that was my B.C. years..
A hunters heart.It examines the spiritual and emotional process that some hunters feel while pursuing wild game.I was interested in reading it after feeling a twinge of guilt about killing and eating a deer.I wouldn’t stop hunting though,it was like that process was in my soul.I felt so empty without wrapping myself in the primal human urge to survive and reconnect on a regular basis with nature.I couldn’t figure out how I could love an animal so much or feel so connected with an animal and then promptly kill it and eat it.It isn’t an ego thing,I know who I am and do not need to fool myself or anyone else with acts of bloodshed but I needed to understand what it was that pulled me to hunting.This book helped me find that and I hold it close to my heart.