Why it endured
Waking Up by Sam Harris appears on public reading lists from influential readers.
What they're saying
3 people recommend this book
“I suspect many of you want recommendations on books about meditation and spiritual experience. There’s no book out there that is free of the superstition and religiosity you tend to get with books aboutBuddhism or Advaita Vedanta, the Hindu teachings of non-duality. I can’t really recommend those books without caveat. I wrote the book that I think needed to exist, “Waking Up,” which was my last book. I am reluctant to include my own book in a list of books everyone should read, however. But there was a reason why I wrote that book, because there’s really no book I could point rational people, students of science, critics of religious mumbo jumbo, with a clear conscience.”
tim.blog“@rneppalli @BrianGrazer Loved "Waking Up." Also check the Raptitude blog.”
“Harris's essential work on consciousness, spirituality without dogma, and meditation, offering fascinating perspectives on the nature of human experience and the mind itself.”
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