These 11 Books on Compassion Will Widen the Window of Your Heart

These 11 Books on Compassion Will Widen the Window of Your Heart

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11 Books On Compassion to Live Open-Heartedly and Embrace Deeper Connections:

Compassion is such a popular topic these days, because we can all use more of it – both for ourselves and others. These books on compassion offer an inspiring lens through which to view the world, yourself, and your relation to it.
 

1. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

This book is a comforting, conversational pep-talk wrapped around some powerful concepts on self-awareness and compassion. The Untethered Soul feels like wrapping yourself up in a fuzzy blanket with a warm drink while your wise fairy godmother teaches you how it all works.

It isn’t a book filled with fluff – rather, it’s a completely relatable approach to a relatively scary subject: your thoughts and emotions. After uncovering how those fluctuate and why, Singer teaches us how to shift our thought patterns and unfetter ourselves from limited consciousness to expand into the world of unlimited possibilities and compassion.
 

2. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Tolle is one of the masters in writing on the topic of personal spirituality so this list wouldn’t be complete without one of his many books on the docket.

A New Earth expands on his other book, The Power of Now, to dive into personal purpose and embraces the idea that when we are expressing our purpose we reduce suffering both within us and within the whole world.

What makes Tolle’s books on compassion so impactful is that he takes familiar concepts, such as parenthood, menstruation and unhappiness, and offers an opportunity to explore it through a spiritual lens of compassion and self-discovery.
 

3. Waking Up by Sam Harris

Waking Up is a great spirituality book for science-minded people. Harris himself is a neuroscientist so is uniquely qualified to write on the subject. In this book he explores “the middle path.” This is the path that requires both science and spirituality to create a complete message.

Though clocking in at just over 200 pages, this book may be more dense than some others on this list due to the science-based nature of it but it’s broken up by images, how-tos, and incredible insight.

Even if you’re already familiar with topics of consciousness, when you read this book you will discover new intricacies and fascinations of humanity.

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4. Light on Life by B.K. Iyengar

B.K.S. Iyengar is one of the most prominent figures of modern day yoga. In Light on Life, he shares his “revelations from a lifetime of yoga.” He shares his journey in yoga and proposes your own journey to wholeness through yoga practices.

He shares this journey through creating harmony between the five koshas, or “sheaths of being.” These are: the physical body, energy body, mental body, intellectual body and divine body. Balance is encouraged through meditations, breathing exercises, asana, internal modifications and habits you can practice out in the world.

There is enough wisdom in this one book to spend your lifetime studying it and for this reason the Index in the back is especially useful.
 

5. Be Here Now by Ram Dass

This is the ultimate classic in the spirituality-via-compassion genre. Part art piece, part dissertation, one of the best parts about Be Here Now is that you can always return to it. You can flip it open to a random page to receive inspiration and insight because every page is saturated with potential mind-shifting realizations.

This book on compassion begins with traditional information including Ram Dass’s journey through academia to India to his awakening. The main section of the book is filled with art and somewhat psychedelic letterpress printing. In the back, there is a third section called the “cookbook” and includes “ingredients” or practices to awakening the Self.

No matter where you are on your spiritual journey, Be Here Now will move you forward, or perhaps more accurately, inward, to the universality of love.
 

6. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

In the 90s, Julia Cameron changed the writing world forever when she published The Artist’s Way, a book determined to empower every person as their own untapped and unending creative source – through writing!

This book on compassion is packed with inspiring quotes and a step-by-step outline to break down self-created barriers and unleash your unlimited potential within.

As a writer, this is practically a mandated work to have on your shelf and return to again and again. As a person on a creative spiritual path, this is a must-have.
 
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