The Sermon on the Mount

This book by Emmet Fox was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Jason Portnoy. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, relationships. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

What did Jesus teach? Distilled from years of study and lecture, affirmed by nearly a million readers over the last fifty years, Emmet Fox's answer in The Sermon on the Mount is simple. The Bible is a "textbook of metaphysics" and the teachings of Jesus express, without dogma, a practical approach for the development of the soul and for the shaping of our lives into what we really wish them to be. For Fox, Jesus was "no sentimental dreamer, no mere dealer in empty platitudes, but the unflinching realist that only a great mystic can be."In his most popular work, Emmet Fox shows how to: Understand the true nature of divine wisdom.

• “books by emmett fox i like him a lot any starting point i like the sermon on the mount”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “i like him a lot”
  Jason Portnoy · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 202201:25:32

  Said during "Porn Addiction, The Corrosiveness of Secrets, and Books to Change Your Life | Jason Portnoy". The episode features Jason Portnoy: Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of Silicon Valley Porn Star. Early PayPal financial analyst, first CFO of Palantir Technologies, and founder of the VC firm Subtraction Capital (formerly Oakhouse Partners). Holds engineering degrees from the University of Colorado and Stanford. PayPal-era finance leader Jason Portnoy candidly traces his secret porn and sex addiction, marriage near-collapse, and the inner work that healed him.