Mitra Goris

Mitra Goris is the author of Daily Wisdom Books, a series of 365-day secular reading books covering Buddhism, Taoism, Stoicism and the Bhagavad Gita, and of The 30-Day Shift, a series of practical psychology programs. Four Daily Wisdom volumes and two 30-Day Shift titles are published as of July 2026.

Why secular?

Because the useful part of every one of these traditions survives translation out of its religion, and most people who could use it will never walk into a temple to get it.

The Stoics were writing about anger management and mortality. The Tao Te Ching is about the cost of unnecessary force. The Dhammapada is about attention and attachment. The Bhagavad Gita opens with a panic attack. These are psychological documents that happen to be two thousand years old, and reading them does not require you to believe anything.

Why only public-domain sources?

Because a book that quotes a source the reader cannot go and read for free is a closed loop.

Every passage in every Daily Wisdom book comes from a translation in the public domain, and every passage names its translator. That rules out some famous modern versions, and in a few cases it means quoting a nineteenth-century scholar rather than a more elegant twentieth-century poet. The trade is worth it: the reader can always check the source, and the reading lists on this site link straight to the free full texts.

Contact

Reader email reaches Mitra directly at mitra@dailywisdombooks.com. Every book carries this address in its About the Author page, because Amazon Author Central does not permit contact addresses or links.

Elsewhere

• Amazon author page for Mitra Goris
• Goodreads for Mitra Goris