Library
Browse all 65 indexed texts across 21 traditions. All texts are public domain, open access, or openly licensed.
Christianity
Bible (Berean Standard Bible)
Public Domain — 31,086 passages
Judaism
Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)
Sefaria, CC-BY
Mishneh Torah (Human Dispositions, Repentance)
Sefaria, CC-BY
Babylonian Talmud (selected passages)
Sefaria, CC-BY
Proverbs (Mishlei)
Sefaria, CC-BY-NC — 915 verses
Ecclesiastes (Kohelet)
Sefaria, CC-BY-NC — 222 verses
Zohar (selected sections)
Sefaria, CC0 — 3,895 passages
Islam
Quran (Sahih International English Translation)
alquran.cloud API, Open Access — 6,236 verses
Hinduism
Bhagavad Gita (The Song Celestial) — trans. Edwin Arnold
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Upanishads — trans. Swami Paramananda
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — trans. Charles Johnston
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Sufism
The Masnavi — Rumi, trans. E.H. Whinfield
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz — trans. Gertrude Bell
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 375 passages
The Confessions of Al Ghazzali
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 223 passages
Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 437 passages
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — trans. Edward FitzGerald
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 261 passages
Sikhism
Japji Sahib — Guru Nanak Dev Ji
BaniDB, NPOSL-3.0
Anand Sahib — Guru Amar Das Ji
BaniDB, NPOSL-3.0
Rehras Sahib
BaniDB, NPOSL-3.0
Sukhmani Sahib — Guru Arjan Dev Ji
BaniDB, NPOSL-3.0
Buddhism
Dhammapada — trans. F. Max Muller
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Dhammapada — trans. Bhikkhu Sujato
SuttaCentral, CC0
The Diamond Sutra — trans. William Gemmell
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Gospel of Buddha — Paul Carus
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Light of Asia — Edwin Arnold
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Pali Canon Suttas (Metta, Kalama, Satipatthana, etc.) — Bhikkhu Sujato
SuttaCentral, CC0
Taoism
Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Writings of Chuang Tzu — trans. James Legge
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Zen Buddhism
Essays in Zen Buddhism (First Series) — D.T. Suzuki
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Religion of the Samurai — Kaiten Nukariya
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Stoic Philosophy
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Enchiridion — Epictetus
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Discourses — Epictetus
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Minor Dialogues — Seneca
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
On Benefits — Seneca
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,160 passages
Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency — Seneca
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,516 passages
Greek Philosophy
The Republic — Plato
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Symposium — Plato
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Apology — Plato
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Politics: A Treatise on Government — Aristotle
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,285 passages
Existentialism
Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Either/Or — Soren Kierkegaard
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The World as Will and Idea — Arthur Schopenhauer
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Joyful Wisdom (La Gaya Scienza) — Friedrich Nietzsche
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,346 passages
The Birth of Tragedy — Friedrich Nietzsche
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 812 passages
Eastern Philosophy
The Analects — Confucius, trans. James Legge
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Art of War — Sun Tzu, trans. Lionel Giles
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Psychology
The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 & 2 — William James
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 8,308 passages
Science & Nature
On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Wisdom Literature
Essays: First Series — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Maxims — La Rochefoucauld
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Poems — Rainer Maria Rilke
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 214 passages
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — trans. Charles Cotton
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 7,241 passages
Confucianism
The Chinese Classics (The Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Analects, Mencius) — trans. James Legge
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 783 passages
Jainism
Jaina Sutras Part I: Akaranga Sutra & Kalpa Sutra — trans. Hermann Jacobi
Internet Archive, Public Domain — 2,128 passages
Zoroastrianism
The Zend-Avesta Part I: The Vendidad — trans. James Darmesteter
Internet Archive, Public Domain — 3,771 passages
Rastafari
The Holy Piby — Robert Athlyi Rogers
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain
Mythology
The Egyptian Book of the Dead — trans. E.A. Wallis Budge
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 197 passages
The Poetic Edda — trans. Henry Adams Bellows
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 3,671 passages
The Prose Edda — Snorri Sturluson, trans. Rasmus Anderson
Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,062 passages