Hugely surprised to see Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff on the list. Gurdjieff is the modern father of mindfulness. Of course

Hugely surprised to see Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff on the list. Gurdjieff is the modern father of mindfulness. Of course he borrowed it from the Buddha but in his time the Buddha wasn't much in vogue in the west. Shocked to see such an obscure yet such a marvelous thinker/doer on the list. Absolutely fascinating human.