Meditation Essays

Emily Nemens’s Clutch follows a group of five friends as they navigate the biggest challenges of their lives, asking: When you’re hanging on by your fingernails, how can you extend a hand to the ones you love? As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella, and Carson formed the kind of rare...

❓ What if pain was never the problem—but the path? 🌀 What if addiction wasn’t just weakness—but forgetting who you were meant to be? 🌿 What if less isn’t emptiness—but freedom? 🔥 What if the life you crave begins the moment you let go? In a world that medicates discomfort, sells noise, and rewards distraction— The Zen Meditations of an Addict Monk is a quiet rebellion. A book meant not only to inspire you—but to awaken you. A guide. A mirror. 🪞 A fire. 🔥 A return. A spiritual reckoning. A raw, poetic journey through fear, pain, addiction, consumerism, anger, ...

Marcus Aurelius never meant for anyone to read this. Written in Greek during military campaigns on the Danube frontier, between plague, war, and the death of those he loved, the Meditations is not a philosophical treatise. It is something rarer: a private journal in which the most powerful man on earth speaks only to himself — trying to hold his mind together when everything around him is falling apart. For nearly two thousand years, these notes have been filtered through translations that turned a raw, urgent voice into something polished and distant. This new translation, produced ...

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, a revised and updated edition of the award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller that changed the way we look at meditation, expanded with new material by Dan Harris. After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing...

Go deeper than superficial self-care with the religious secret sauce you didn’t know you were missing "An emotionally and intellectually honest alternative for people who are seeking meaning beyond generic spirituality"—Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, author of Real Self-Care In the chaos of today’s...

Collected Essays is an anthology of Joel Goldsmith’s smaller works and booklets that weave The Infinite Way principles into a variety of timely topics. It gives the reader a broad sampling of Goldsmith’s spiritual wisdom. The book includes these titles: “Supply,” “Metaphysical Healing,” “Meditation,” “Prayer,” “Business,” “Salesmanship,” “Ye Are the Light,” “The Real Teacher,” “The Seven Steps,” “Truth for Business and Professional People,” “Secret of the 23rd Psalm,” “Love,” “Gratitude,” “I Am the Vine,” “Deep Silence of My ...

From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection. “Brilliant. Inciting Joy is a book that will break your heart.” —Ada Limón, US poet laureate “A gift that’s meant to be shared.” —The...

This audiobook includes all three volumes in the Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living series. A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India’s timeless scripture - from the author of its best-selling translation. This audiobook includes all three volumes in this series. The Bhagavad Gita is set on the battlefield of an apocalyptic war between good and evil. Faced with a dire moral dilemma, the warrior prince Arjuna turns in anguish to his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, for answers to the fundamental questions of life.

One of America’s most trusted theologians offers spiritual inspiration for every week of the year. This program is read by the author. A Beautiful Year: 52 Meditations on Faith, Wisdom, and Perseverance offers an essay for every week in the seasons of the Christian year: From Advent and...

Love might not be what we think it is. We all seek the happiness that comes from loving and being loved, yet we often find ourselves dissatisfied in our relationships and unable to grasp the cause. Thich Nhat Hanh here shows the way to overcome our recurrent obstacles to love--by learning to be...

The world’s only non-denominational exorcist—the subject of a forthcoming major motion picture—tells her astonishing true story: a riveting chronicle of wrestling entities from infected souls, showing how pain and trauma opens us to attachment from forces that drain our energy . . . and...

Winner of the René Wellek Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular vision of how we can lead our lives. Ranging from fundamental existential questions to the most pressing...

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. Ross Gay’s essays have been called “exquisite” (Tracy K. Smith), “imperative” (the New...

How is a person changed by commitment to their passion, and how does their commitment change over time? These are questions that esteemed climber Sonnie Trotter asks as he reflects on the most thrilling adventures of his sport and his life. 2025 is Sonnie Trotter’s 30th year climbing. He’s...

This book is a thoroughly researched primer on the 108 Upanishads, philosophical treatises that form a part of the Vedas, the revered Hindu texts. These Upanishads contain the most crystallized bits of wisdom gleaned from Hinduism. Roshen Dalal explains the concepts at the core of each Upanishad...

A Brief History of Everything is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit, written by an author of whom New York Times reporter Tony Schwartz says: "No one has described the path to wisdom better than Ken Wilber." Wilber...

The Stoicism Collection is a collection of 5 essential pieces of stoic philosophy, alongside a biography of Marcus Aurelius, read by an esteemed cast of award-winning narrators. Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life.

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award! From the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just outside it; designed to help you find joy every day. “Delight in food, in eating, in cooking, in serving, in recognizing our luck when...

Lent is a time to refocus our hearts and revive our love of the Lord and one another. A Companion for the Forty Days of Lent (from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday) Designed in a convenient, easy-to-use format: - Inspiring daily reflections from some of the most gifted Catholic writers - Faith-filled essays - Prayers, poetry, and devotions - Meditations for the Way of the Cross - A treasury of spiritual insights By spending a few moments meditating on the inspiring daily reflections and the short prayers that follow them, you will accompany Jesus through his Passion and Death, emerging on ...