Being someone who believe life is meaningless, I'm simply stuck in what I wanna do, and how this whole modern society even works. All I need right now is a writer who took a step back and a deep breath, and strated thinking about life systematically, from birth to death, choices, and people. In another words, trying to fit this whole life into a picture frame. I tried reading multiple philosophy texts (absurdism, stoicism, nihilism, existentialism) best sellers (Homo Sapiens, The Dawn of Everything) and abstract college textbooks. None hit the thing I'm looking for. I'm looking for the right mix between all of those, that turns into guide to life, if any.
by allergictoexistence
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Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but *A Place to Stand* by Jimmy Santiago Baca kind of gave me some perspective on things like that.
The Bible
The one that did this for me was *Tao Te Ching* by Lao Tzu. I’m not a practicing member of any religion, and I’m largely agnostic to atheist-leaning. But the reason this one worked so well for me was because it felt *real* and rooted in lessons/problems I could actually relate to. It’s not a book about a bunch of people thousands of years ago living a life that is nearly impossible to equate to our own.
Instead, it felt like a meditation about the basic ways of life on a very tangible level, and it didn’t have anything to do with deities or getting into any sort of afterlife. It just struck me as very simple, but very true to the spirit of life itself.
Parable of the Sower