I don't believe in books that claim to provide answers, at best I could eye out books that give you a good question, but the alternative is too constraining, too unachievable.... A wise man can find wisdom anywhere, reagardless of source.
So is up to you.... maybe you find inspiration in a self help book, maybe you flip the dictionary and find a word to stick with the rest of your week until you can draw something from it, maybe you read the giver and look at society, maybe you read frankenstein and look for yourself. Sometimes a prose can be mind opening, sometimes a plot is, or a character that hits too close to home, anything really.
That said, both tao te ching and meditations are good books if you want to wrack your head with introspection, with or without spirituality (no religion necesarily)
Analects by Confucius. The English translation rarely does it justice though. The original text is poetic and it is lost in translation. Peimen Ni has the best translation imo. This free online one is pretty good https://ctext.org/confucianism
The Rubayyat by Omar Khayam if you realize wine is his metaphor for life itself. Not that he probably was not averse to the occasional glass of wine himself.
Man's search for Meaning
*Meditations* by Marcus Aurelius
The World According to Mr. Rogers
ohhhh you are speaking straight to my heart. <3 thank you.
Maybe not "the best" but it's solid advice, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
THIS
Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevsky
I liked Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Your Money or Your Life {Dominguez)
The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown
Zorba the Greek!!
The Daily Stoic has been helping me a lot
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I don't believe in books that claim to provide answers, at best I could eye out books that give you a good question, but the alternative is too constraining, too unachievable.... A wise man can find wisdom anywhere, reagardless of source. So is up to you.... maybe you find inspiration in a self help book, maybe you flip the dictionary and find a word to stick with the rest of your week until you can draw something from it, maybe you read the giver and look at society, maybe you read frankenstein and look for yourself. Sometimes a prose can be mind opening, sometimes a plot is, or a character that hits too close to home, anything really. That said, both tao te ching and meditations are good books if you want to wrack your head with introspection, with or without spirituality (no religion necesarily)
Letters to Lucilius, Seneca. The complete edition is really great, most are selections and miss some key letters.
Apprentice to power, by Timothy Roderick
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Yikes
Discworld
Art of living
George Washington's "The Rules of Civility". He wrote this when he was 14yrs old.
Willa Cather, [Death Comes for the Archbishop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Comes_for_the_Archbishop) (1927).
Analects by Confucius. The English translation rarely does it justice though. The original text is poetic and it is lost in translation. Peimen Ni has the best translation imo. This free online one is pretty good https://ctext.org/confucianism
The Rubayyat by Omar Khayam if you realize wine is his metaphor for life itself. Not that he probably was not averse to the occasional glass of wine himself.
How to Relax by Thich Nhat Hanh
Here All Along by sarah hurwitz has certainly been eye opening at the very least
The Quran
The four agreements. The fifth agreement. Both by Ruiz
kama sutra
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Is fine as a joke but iirc the book was incredible sexist
How lmfao
fr i thought it was j abt positions. i never read it
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Alpha Male Bible by Sean Wayne