Agree with your subtitle. I have posted somewhere that if I don't read anything from any gurus and if I had to recommend one spiritual book, it would be Siddartha. These two tanka sprout from Siddartha quotes: https://medium.com/p/7a149c7602ad Have I shared this next poem with you? https://medium.com/literary-impulse/descortly-poetic-ode-to-the-spiritual-genius-of-hermann-hesse-11799d5833de At the time I wrote it I said it was the best fucking poem I had written.