Book Nook
Welcome to the unofficial Wild Goose Book Club! We are excited to share some of the books that have profoundly affected us with our fellow bibliophiles! These posts are basically mini-reviews, because ‘aint nobody got time for writing (or reading) long book reviews, amiright?! But we’ve got your back when it comes to the bottom line for each book, and we hope you’ll find some new favorites from these recommendations!
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No Mud, No Lotus -Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Info: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering, by Thich Nhat Hanh. Available as eBook or paperback (128 pages). “The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we don’t know how to handle the suffering inside us and we try to cover it up with...
The End of Your World – Adyashanti
Book Info: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment, by Adyashanti. Available as eBook, paperback (240 pages), or audiobook (7 hours, 33 minutes). “When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that...
Meditation in Action – Chogyam Trungpa
Book Info: Meditation in Action, by Chogyam Trungpa (Afterward by Sam Bercholz). Available as eBook, paperback (112 pages), or audiobook (3 hours, 18 minutes). So in order to achieve silence, you would not chase the birds away because they make noise; in order to be...
Solve for Happy – Mo Gawdat
Book Info: Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy by Mo Gawdat. Available as eBook, paperback (368 pages), or audiobook (11 hours, 12 minutes). Wherever you are, whoever you are, you want to be happy. It’s a human desire about as basic as the drive to take the...
Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Info: Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh. Available as eBook, paperback (134 pages), or audiobook (3 hours, 29 minutes). “Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath...
Loving What Is- Byron Katie
Book Info: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie. Available as eBook, paperback (321 pages), or audiobook (9 hours, 7 minutes). “A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts,...
The Anatomy of Peace- The Arbinger Institute
Book Info: The Anatomy of Peace - Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute. Available as eBook, paperback (288 pages), or audiobook (6 hours, 5 minutes). "Difficult people are nevertheless people, and it always remains in my power to see them that...
Radical Acceptance- Tara Brach
Book Info: Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, by Tara Brach. Available as eBook, paperback (352 pages), and audio (12 hours 45 minutes). “Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years...
The Power of Now- Eckhart Tolle
Book Info: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle. Available as eBook, paperback (236 pages), and audiobook (7 hours, 37 minutes). "Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future, it...