Each of these books have greatly influenced my reality and have informed decisions around what I assign value and how I use my time.

I therefore have made this list so that others can either benefit from it or as a sincere and open invitation to challenge my own perspective.

Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu [both Stephen Mitchells and Ursukla K. Le Guins translations] If I had to select one book, this would be it.

Awareness | Anthony de Mello

Out of your Mind | Alan Watts

The Second Book of Tao | Stephen Mitchell

The Way of Chuang Tzu | Thomas Merton

The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible | Charles Eisenstein

Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared | Trinh T. Minh-Ha

The Creative Act | Rick Rubin

Bhagavad Gita | Stephen Mitchell

Untamed | Glennon Doyle

The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello | Anthony de Mello

Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl

The Myth of Normal | Gabor Maté

Freedom from the World | Eckhart Tolle

Black Swan | Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Creative Act: A Way of Being | Rick Rubin

Becoming Nobody | Ram Dass

Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari

The Gospel According to Jesus | Stephen Mitchell

The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle

Ways of Seeing | John Berger

Loving What Is | Byron Katie

The Ascent of Humanity | Charles Eisenstein

The Power of Myth | Joseph Campbell

Sacred Economics | Charles Eisenstein

Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari

21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari

Mastery | Robert Green

Lying | Sam Harris

Sculpting in Time | Andrei Tarkovsky

D-Passage | Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Herzog on Herzog | Paul Cronin

The Ending of Time | Jiddu Krishnamurti