The Essential Rumi: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
The Essential Rumi, translated and presented by Coleman Barks, introduces modern readers to selected poems attributed to Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the…
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Jainism: An Introduction: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Jainism is often introduced through one word: ahimsa, or non-violence. But treating Jainism as simply a philosophy of kindness misses the extraordinary…
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The Sikhs: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
How does a community become a people, a faith and a historical tradition at the same time? The Sikhs by Patwant Singh…
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The Chosen: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What happens when a child enters a new world and discovers that identity can become complicated by family, religion, community and history?…
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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Martin Lings’s Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources presents the life of Muhammad through early Islamic biographical traditions, tracing his…
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What the Buddha Taught: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Walpola Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught is an influential introduction to Buddhist philosophy and practice. Rather than beginning with Buddhism as a…
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The Bhagavad Gita: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What should a person do when every available choice seems morally difficult? The Bhagavad Gita begins with Arjuna facing a battlefield in…
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Mere Christianity: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What if Christianity is not primarily a collection of isolated rules, but a claim about what reality is like and what kind…
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The Power of Now: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What if much of our suffering comes not only from what happens to us, but from the mind’s constant demand that the…
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Man’s Search for Meaning: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning combines an account of his imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps with an introduction to logotherapy,…
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