I consider myself religious, yet attend no church. I believe that all the things I have to be most thankful for are the result of some really "great books". Bhagavad Gita. Tao tse Ching. Plato. The New Testament of the Christian Bible. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. Aristotle. And others.
Here's how I judged whether something was inspirational, how it became great.
Retrospect.
