Motivational Audiobooks to Keep You Going

Daily life can be chaotic and stressful. Taking a few minutes to reflect on philosophy is a powerful way to ground yourself in the present day.

We’ve gathered 3 books that provide daily passages to learn from and meditate on. 

A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul

Leo Tolstoy 

Late in his life, Leo Tolstoy decided to leave one last work for the world: a book of the best ideas in history. He set about collecting pieces of wisdom from contemporary thinkers, ancient philosophers, and religious texts. It took Tolstoy more than 15 years to gather all the ideas in A Calendar of Wisdom, and it became his favorite book in the last years of his life. The book is organized into topics for each day, week, and month, and includes ideas from Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament, and more.

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman

To many, the word “stoic” implies an unfeeling or uncaring person. But the ancient stoics were not that. The Stoics were thoughtful philosophers with a passion for virtue. Stoics like Seneca and Marcus Aurelius have shaped the thinking and lives of countless people in history. The Daily Stoic provides a short reflection or lesson on stoic philosophy in Ryan Holiday’s signature prose. 

365 Tao: Daily Meditation

Ming-Dao Deng

The Tao Te Ching is as much poetry as it is philosophy. Taoist concepts are sometimes obtuse, but once you discover the underlying wisdom, you can find great beauty. 365 Tao presents a daily lesson in a taoist philosophy full of poeticism and allegory that not only provides wisdom for living a better life, but also metaphors that allow you to see the world in an entirely new way.