Great Inspirational Books

Note: This is a pretty long article. If it gets cut off by your email client, simply click on the title of this piece and you will be redirected to the website where you can read the full article. Thanks! Can we escape fate? Are we free to determine our own destiny, our own path through life? Or are we just pawns pushed around by forces we don't understand? Meet Walter Faber, a man who believes in...

Hello, welcome back to our series on books you can't miss. And today, I really want to talk about this one: J.G. Ballard, Vermillion Sands . This is one of the most remarkable books I've ever read. And I know that I say this about all the books we are discussing, but you know, all these books are remarkable. This is why I am making these posts and videos, right? I wouldn't make them for books that...

You don't have to understand poetry in order to enjoy it. But today, the skill of reading poetry is getting lost. Speed-reading, AI summaries and bullet-point lists have destroyed our ability to read in silent images, to enjoy the feeling of words, to not always search for their meaning. I am Andy, philosophy lecturer, and I have been reading and loving poetry for almost fifty years. And in this e...

Today, we’re coming to the third part of our reading of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha , the life story of a young Hindu man at the time of the Buddha. In the beginning of the book, discussed in the first post in this series, young Siddhartha leaves his home village together with his friend Govinda, and they join a group of ascetics who live in the wilderness. They stay with them for three years, but...

Last week, we talked about the beginning of Siddhartha’s journey. The young man leaves his village and with it a safe life as a high-caste member of his society, a future priest or scholar. Together with his friend Govinda, he follows a group of begging ascetics into the wilderness, where they stay for three years, learning the arts and skills needed to survive with nothing: fasting, meditating, p...

We discuss one of the greatest inspirational books of the 20th century: Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.everydawn.com

Welcome back to Every Dawn and to this new series where I want to present you a book every week! A book that is not just some random bestseller or something that you can find everywhere and that is discussed, you know, all over the internet. But I want specifically to show you books that perhaps you don't know, books that are perhaps a little less known or a little more rare or a little more out o...

Dear Friends and Supporters of Every Dawn, You saw perhaps that I’m starting a new series of posts, where we will weekly discuss inspirational books that have been hugely important and influential for my own life. For your convenience, I have separated the book posts from the (shorter) daily inspiration posts, into two different categories. On the Substack page for Every Dawn, you will be able to...