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When everything falls apart — a relationship, a plan, a sense of self — the instinct is to run. Pema Chödrön argues that leaning into that collapse, rather than fleeing it, is where genuine courage and compassion are born. This microbook shows how fear, loneliness, and chaos are not obstacles to a meaningful life but the very ground it grows from.

When Things Fall Apart

Understanding the science behind your decision making and behavior is a great asset in the battle to a more fulfilled life.

Psychology

Personal Development

Your nervous system decides how you feel before your brain decides what to think. Deb Dana translates Polyvagal Theory into a practical map of three biological states and teaches you how to stop shaming yourself for reactions that were designed to keep you alive.

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Meditation

Everybody knows how the Law of Attraction works – positive thoughts bring positive results into a person’s life, while negative thoughts bring negative experiences. But why? In “The Magic of Manifesting,” the introductory book to his Law of Attraction series, Japanese metaphysician Ryuu Shinohara goes a bit deeper and explains the fundamentals one needs to understand in order to apply manifestation effectively. 

The Magic of Manifesting

Get inspired, build great plans, reach your goals, live happier!

Self-Help & Motivation

Watch your thoughts – claims a famous saying – for they become your actions, which, in turn, become your character and destiny. In “Switch On Your Brain,” Dr. Caroline Leaf uses Bible verses and scientific studies to demonstrate that this link between thoughts and destiny isn’t far-fetched. In addition, she gives a 21-day prescription for a detoxed thought life!

Switch On Your Brain

The best microbooks on Emotional Intelligence to make you overcome obstacles in your personal and professional life.

Emotional Intelligence

Have you ever felt like your thoughts were too loud and out of your control? In “Winning the War in Your Mind,” American pastor Craig Groeschel rummages through the Bible to teach you how to quiet and restrain them. “Our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts,” he claims. “What we think shapes who we are.”

Winning the War in Your Mind

One of the most grueling tasks in today’s world is letting go of our worries, anxieties, and fears. In this enlightening book, Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us how to find relief from the noise that fills our minds and respond to the wondrous world around us with more awareness and appreciation.

Silence

Love is a topic numerous philosophers have contemplated. However, not many of them offered controversial ideas, such as Osho did in ‘’Love, Freedom, Aloneness.’’ This book gives an expansive definition of love, which includes the notion of freedom from attachment and sexual repression, self-love, and appreciation of aloneness.

Love, Freedom, Aloneness

In “Awareness,” controversial 20th-century-mystic Osho explains that the key to living a fulfilled life is to heighten your awareness. According to Osho, most people spend life in a state akin to sleep—he describes how you can wake up and make the most of your life.

Awareness

Written by Matthew Sockolov, the founding teacher of One Mind Dharma, “Practicing Mindfulness” is a brief introduction to the practice of mindfulness and its benefits, as well as a nicely structured collection of 75 essential mindfulness exercises, each of them broken down into several actionable steps and designed for specific situations or emotions.

Practicing Mindfulness

“Waking Up” by Sam Harris is simultaneously a memoir, a scientific exploration of the mysteries of consciousness and the self, and a philosophical guide to spirituality without religion. Throughout the book, Harris argues that “the conventional sense of self is an illusion – and that spirituality largely consists in realizing this, moment to moment.”

Waking Up

"Stillness Is the Key" contains instructions aiming to shed light on the "holy" trinity composed of mind, body and spirit. Holiday maintains that those individuals who managed to rediscover their inner stillness in the face of obstacles and challenges were able to accomplish more even when the odds were stacked heavily against them.

Stillness Is the Key

How did we get here? See which ideas shaped the course of history, and how philosophy played a significant role in human evolution.

History & Philosophy

In “Women Who Run With the Wolves,” Jungian psychoanalyst and storyteller Clarissa Pinkola Estés looks at how women can recover their repressed femininity, or Wild Woman. She illustrates how stories and fairy tales can give crucial clues for women on how to truly be themselves.

Women Who Run With the Wolves

British purpose coach Jay Shetty spent three years living a Vedic monk lifestyle at an ashram in Mumbai, India. “Think Like a Monk” shares everything he learned there. In his own words, the book posits another way of viewing and approaching life – a way of rebellion, detachment, rediscovery, purpose, focus, discipline, and service. The monk way.

Think Like a Monk

Drawing on research conducted at Joe Dispenza’s advanced workshops, “Becoming Supernatural” explores the mystical aspects of existence and goes to great lengths to demonstrate that, by way of meditations and mental rehearsals, humans can change their brain chemistry, actively participate in the reshaping of their futures, and slowly develop more efficient, more balanced and healthier bodies.

Becoming Supernatural

Drawing from a variety of spiritual traditions and the depths of a personally experienced “inner transformation,” “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle is, self-professedly, a guide to spiritual enlightenment. The book advocates severing the ties with your incessantly wandering pain-addicted mind to access the power of the present moment – the only place where life is actually happening.

The Power of Now

“You Can Heal Your Life” is one of the classics in New Thought and self-help books. Hay talks about the power of positivity and of realizing the power you hold in your own life. She believes that every thought determines the future.

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