Inspirations easily become chains. The same words that can evoke true happiness and wisdom, can also imprison and chain us to false and harmful beliefs. If we’re not ‘standing on the shoulders of giants,’ we’re looking into the back of someone’s pants.
Words of Wisdom are like tiny sparks with the capacity to light up an aspect of our lives and ignite a bonfire of realization, sanity, awareness. It’s not as much learning something we didn’t know as a reminder of something we’ve always known but forgotten or become numb to - tiny sparks with power to light our way.
A key insight into the development of Shambhala principle - of extending personal, spiritual wisdom into culture, politics, philosophy, and day-to-day living - involves dissolving the thought/motivation/desire of a reward. This helps explain why so many of the prime movers responsible for these sources were unrecognized during their lifetimes; often reviled, persecuted, and killed. And even people that were recognized and highly respected like Benjamin Franklin accomplished a tremendous amount anonymously.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Harari
A Buddhist Approach to Politics
by Chögyam Trungpa
A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things
by Elbert Hubbard
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-wang-tui Texts
by Lao Tzu
trans: Robert Henricks
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
A Story Waiting to Pierce You
by Peter Kingsley
A Study of History
by Arnold Toynbee
A Sudden Flash of Lightening: Words Out of Silence
by Gesshin Myoko Roshi
Aesop's Fables, the Aesopica
by Aesop
Age of Napoleon
by Will (and Ariel) Durant
All Slave-Keepers That keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
by Benjamin Lay
All's Well That Ends Well
by William Shakespeare
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
Art of War 孙子兵法
by Sun Tzu
trans: Denma Translation Group
Art of Worldly Wisdom
by Balthasar Gracian
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
by Bertrand Russell
Autobiography of Madame Guyon
by Madame Guyon
Awakening of Intelligence
by Krishnamurti
Beautiful Losers
by Leonard Cohen
Beyond the Postmodern Mind
by Huston Smith
Blue Cliff Record, Biyan lu 碧巖錄
by Yuanwu Keqin
Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion
by Chögyam Trungpa
Bodhisattva Way of Life, Bodhicaryavatara
by Shantideva
trans: Marion L. Matics
Book of Equanimity
by Hóngzhì Zhēngjué
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Bringing it all Back Home
by Bob Dylan
Brothers Karamatzov
by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Caesar and Christ
by Will Durant
Candide
by Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet
Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Cantos
by Ezra Pound
Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
Cause, Principle, and Unity: And Essays on Magic
by Giordano Bruno
Chiao Hung and the restructuring of in the late Ming
by Edward T Chʻien
Choice of Pearls
by Solomon ibn Gabirol
Complete Works of Lao Tzu
by Lao Tzu
trans: Hua-Ching Ni
Complete Works of Lao Tzu
by Hua-Ching Ni
Constitutional Code
by Jeremy Bentham
Core of the Teaching
by Krishnamurti
Cosmic Trigger II
by Robert Anton Wilson
Creative Evolution
by Henri-Louis Bergson
Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
by Henri-Louis Bergson
Creators: Heroes of the Imagination
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Critique Of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
by David Chadwick
Cultivating the Emplty Field
by Hóngzhì Zhēngjué
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
by Chögyam Trungpa
Dance, Dance, Dance
by Haruki Murakami
Daodejing Lunbing Yaoyishu, The Tao of War
by Wang Zhen
Das Kapital; Capital: Critique of Political Economy
by Karl Marx
Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography
by Benazir Bhutto
Dawn of Everything
by David Graeber
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
by Lucretius
Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian
by Peter Abelard
Discourses of Epictetus, Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί
by Epictetus
Discourses on Livy
by Machiavelli
Divine Milieu
by Teilhard de Chardin
Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸
by Zisi
Dream Pool Essays 梦溪笔谈
by Shen Kuo
Duino Elegies
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
by Namkhai Norbu
Ecclesiastes קֹהֶלֶת
by Koheleth
Emperor of China, Self-Portrait of K'ang-hsi
by Kāngxī
trans: Jonathan D. Spence
Enlightenment Now
by Steven Pinker
Enneads Ἐννεάδες Plotinus / Porphyry
by Plotinus
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
by William Godwin
Essays, French Essais
by Montaigne
Essential Gate for Entry Into Sudden Enlightenment (Tun-wu ju dao yao-men)
by Hui Hai
trans: John Blofeld
Essential Tao
by Lao Tzu
trans: Thomas Cleary
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay
Faust, part I
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Faust, part II
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Fayan 法言, Exemplary Figures or Model Sayings
by Yang Xiong
Finite and Infinite Games
by James P. Carse
Finnegan's Wake
by James Joyce
Flight of the Garuda
by Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol
Four Books
by Zhu Xi
trans: Thomas Cleary
Four Hundred Verses on the Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas
by Āryadeva
Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing
by Reb Zalman
Gesar of Ling Epic
by Gesar of Ling
Golden Verses of Pythagoras Χρύσεα
by Pythagorus
Gospel According to Thomas
by Jesus
Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
by Will Durant
Harvest of Leisure
by Yoshida Kenkō
Hebrew Bible, The Tanakh
by Rabbinic Sages
Heroes of History
by Will Durant
History of Civilization
by Henry Thomas Buckle
History of Florence
by Machiavelli
History of Western Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
How Children Fail
by John Holt
How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton
Hsin Hsin Ming
by Jianzhi Sengcan
Human All Too Human - A Book for Free Spirits
by Friedrich Nietzsche
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by Malala Yousafzai
I Am That
by Nisargadatta Maharaj
Ich und Du, I and Thou
by Martin Buber
Ideas and Opinions
by Albert Einstein
Illusion's Game
by Chögyam Trungpa
Illustrated Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
trans: Man-Ho Kwok, Martin Palmer, and Jay Ramsay
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
trans: Jonathan D. Spence
In the American Grain
by William Carlos Williams
Inner Structure of the I Ching
by Anagarika (Lama) Govinda
Internal Book of Medicine
by Huangdi
It's Up to You
by Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche
Jewel Ornament of Liberation
by Gampopa
Journey to Enlightenment
by Matthieu Ricard
Journey to Ixtlan
by Carlos Castaneda
Journey Without Goal
by Chögyam Trungpa
Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami
trans: Philip Gabriel, Ted Godssen
Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་
by Longchenpa
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Kubla Khan
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
by John Fire Lame Deer
Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
by Buddha
trans: Red Pine or Bill Porter
Lao Tzu - A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
by Lao Tzu
trans: Ursula Le Guin
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
trans: D. C. Lau
Lao-Tze’s Tao-Te-King
by Lao Tzu
trans: Paul Carus
Lao-tzu-chu, Red Pine Translation
by Cao Daochong
Lao-Tzu: “My words are very easy to understand.”
by Lao Tzu
trans: Cheng Man-ch'ing
Lao-Tzu's Taoteching
by Red Pine
Lao-Tzu’s TaoTeChing
by Lao Tzu
trans: Red Pine or Bill Porter
Last Temptation of Christ
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Laughter
by Henri-Louis Bergson
Leaders Eat Last
by Simon Sinek
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
Legends of the old Plantation
by Joel Chandler Harris
Lessons of History
by Will (and Ariel) Durant
Liezi "True Classic of Simplicity and Perfect Emptiness”
by Lie Yukou
Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin
by Matthieu Ricard
Light of Discovery
by Toni Packer
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
Luminous Emptiness
by Francesca Fremantle
Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay
Magical Mystery Tour
by John Lennon
Maha Ati
by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Mahābhārata महाभारतम्
by Vyasa
Man in the High Castle,
by Philip K. Dick
Man Who Planted Trees
by Jean Giono
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
Mandala Principle
by Chögyam Trungpa
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Noam Chomsky
Martial Arts and the Art of War
by Chögyam Trungpa
Masnavi مثنوي معنوي) "Rhyming Couplets of Profound Spiritual Meaning”
by Rumi
Masters of Enchantment
by Keith Dowman
Masters of Mahamudra
by Mondup Sherab
Matter of Seggri
by Ursula Le Guin
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
by Noam Chomsky
Meditations Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν
by Marcus Aurelius
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by Carl Jung
Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Might Is Right
by Arthur Desmond
Moby Dick or The Whale
by Herman Melville
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
by Carl Jung
Moral Animal — Why we are the Way we Are
by Robert Wright
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Myth of Freedom
by Chögyam Trungpa
Nel VI Centenario della Nascita
by Poggio Bracciolini
New Testament Διαθήκη
by Jesus
No Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen
by Jakusho Kwong
Not For Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Notes on the State of Virginia
by Thomas Jefferson
On Choices and Avoidances
by Philodemus
On Nature (Fragments)
by Heraclitus
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
One Straw Revolution
by Masanobu Fukuoka
Orderly Chaos — The Mandala Principle
by Chögyam Trungpa
Ordinary Wisdom, Sakya Legshe (Jewel Treasury of Good Advice)
by Sakya Pandita
Ordinary Wonder
by Charlotte Joko Beck
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
Othello
by William Shakespeare
Our Oriental Heritage
by Will Durant
Outline of History
by H. G. Wells
Parerga and Paralipomena, "Appendices" and "Omissions"
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Path of Individual Liberation
by Chögyam Trungpa
Peacemaker's Code
by Deepak Malhotra
Penetrating the Book of Changes
by Zhou Dunyi
Perennial Philosophy
by Aldous Huxley
Phenomenon of Man
by Teilhard de Chardin
Philosophical Dictionary
by Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet
Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Pleasures of Philosophy
by Will Durant
Political Consciousness
by Chögyam Trungpa
Politics of Experience
by R. D. Laing
Poor Richard's Almanack
by Benjamin Franklin
Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
Prayer Mat of Sex 肉蒲团 (Jou Pu Tuan)
by Lǐ Yú
Principles of Morals and Legislation
by Jeremy Bentham
Psychotherapy East and West
by Alan Watts
Raise High the Roof Beams, Seymour an Introduction
by J. D. Salinger
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
by Karmapa XVI
Real Reality
by Robert Anton Wilson
Realizing Enlightened Society
by Chögyam Trungpa
Red Book, Liber Novus
by Carl Jung
Report to Greco
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Road Back to Nature
by Masanobu Fukuoka
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Rousseau and Revolution
by Will (and Ariel) Durant
Rules for Radicals
by Saul Alinsky
Sadhana of Mahamudra
by Chögyam Trungpa
Sapiens, A Graphic History Vol. 2
by Yuval Harari
Saving Fish From Drowning
by Amy Tan
Second Book of Tao
by Stephen Mitchell
Secret Book on the Inner Elixir
by Sun Bu'er
Secret History of the Mongol Queens
by Jack Weatherford
Secret History of the Mongols, Монголын нууц товчоо, 元朝秘史
by Genghis Khan
Secret of the Golden Flower 太乙金華宗旨; Tàiyǐ Jīnhuá Zōngzhǐ
by Lü Dongbin
trans: Richard Wilhelm
Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
by Atisha
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
by Chögyam Trungpa
Shasekishū (Sand and Pebbles)
by Mujū Dōkyō
Shiji, Records of the Grand Historian, 太史公書
by Sima Qian
Six States of Bardo
by Chögyam Trungpa
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered
by E. F. Schumacher
Some of the Dharma
by Jack Kerouac
Song of Enlightenment 证道歌
by Yòngjiā Xuānjué
Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi
by Dongshan Liangjie
Songs and Sonnets
by John Donne
Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami
Steps to an Ecology of the Mind
by Gregory Bateson
Story of Civilization
by Will (and Ariel) Durant
Summa Theologica
by Thomas Aquinas
Ta Chuan: The Great Treatise
by Confucius
Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness
by Chögyam Trungpa
Tao of Spirit
by Lao Tzu
trans: John Roger
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
trans: Stephen Mitchell
Tao Te Ching 道德经 Dàodéjīng
by Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching - Introduction and Notes
by Lao Tzu
trans: Charles Muller
Tao Te Ching – Psychedelic Prayers
by Lao Tzu
trans: Timothy Leary
Tao Te Ching — The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
by Lao Tzu
trans: Shan Dao
Tao Te Ching, a new translation
by Lao Tzu
trans: Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Tao Te Ching, a new translation and commentary
by Ralph Alan Dale
Tao Te Ching, Annotated and Explained
by Lao Tzu
trans: Derek Lin
Tao The Ching
by Lao Tzu
trans: John Wu
Tao-te-chen-ching yi-chieh
by Li Xizhai
Tao-te-chen-ching-chu
by Su Che
Tao-te-chen-ching-chu
by Wu Cheng
Taoist I Ching, , Zhouyi chanzhen 周易闡真
by Liu Yiming
Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
by Carlos Castaneda
The Age of Reason Begins
by Will (and Ariel) Durant
The Age of Voltaire
by Will (and Ariel) Durant
The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa
by Chögyam Trungpa
trans: Nalanda Translation Committee
The Complete Poems
by Gaspara Stampa
The Exploration of Space
by Arthur C. Clarke
The Garden of Epicurus
by Anatole France
The Gateless Gate, 無門関, 無門關
by Mumon Ekai
The Great Conversation
by Robert Hutchins
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula Le Guin
The New Age
by Chögyam Trungpa
The Proper Study of Mankind
by Isaiah Berlin
The Reformation
by Will (and Ariel) Durant
The Sane Society
by Erich Fromm
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
The Way and its Power
by Lao Tzu
trans: Arthur Waley
The Way of Chuang Tzu
by Thomas Merton
Theory of Colors
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Tibetan Book of the Dead
by Padmasambhava
Timon of Athens
by William Shakespeare
Toda Raba
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Torch of Certainty
by Jamgon Kongtrul the Great
Triumph of Life
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Twilight of the Idols
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
by Carl Jung
Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
by Karma Chagme Rinpoche I
Unpopular Essays
by Bertrand Russell
Utopia Avenue
by David Mitchell
Waiting At The Window
by A.A. Milne
Walden or Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace in the Global Village
by Marshall McLuhan
War of the Sexes
by Paul Seabright
Way of Lao Tzu
by Lao Tzu
trans: Wing-tsit Chan
Way of Life According to Lao Tzu
by Lao Tzu
trans: Witter Bynner
Way of Perfection
by Teresa of Avila
Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
What Makes You Not a Buddhist
by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
When Things Fall Apart
by Pema Chödrön
Why Buddhism is True
by Robert Wright
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
Wisdom of China and India
by Lín Yǔtáng
Wisdom of Laotse
by Lín Yǔtáng
Wisdom of Life
by Arthur Schopenhauer
trans: T. Bailey Saunders
World's Religions
by Huston Smith
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
by Paul Reps
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
Zen Teachings of Huang Po on the Transmission of Mind, John Blofeld translation
by Huangbo Xiyun
Zen Teachings of Rinzai (Record of Rinzai), Irmgard Schloegl translation 1976
by Rinzai Gigen
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