Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

What it is about

Sam Harris argues that meditation and investigation of consciousness can be separated from supernatural belief. Drawing on contemplative traditions, neuroscience, and philosophy, he focuses on attention, the constructed sense of self, and brief experiences in which awareness is present without ordinary identification with thought. It stays near me because the questions that become heavier when they are ignored and more useful when they are faced should not become an idea I can praise from a safe distance.

Why I keep it

Spirituality with the religion taken out. Harris made it possible for me.

Key ideas

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