David Gerken
6 min readApr 30, 2019

Five Short, Easy-to-Read Spiritual Classics That Will Help You Today

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Each of the texts below is packed with essential, profound wisdom. They’re also short and easy to read. As such, if I were dictator of the world I’d make all five of them mandatory reading for all earthlings.

1. TAO TE CHING by Lao Tzu

Written 2,500 years ago in China, the Tao is, in my estimation, the wisest work ever written. I keep it on my desk at all times. Why…

David Gerken

Meditation and Mindfulness teacher. Dad of three precious kids. Former writer for THE WEST WING. Follow me at davidgerken.net.