/lit/ - Literature

>>14922363
>>14922518
>>14922841
>>14923000
Anti-Bump

There is a book called "The History of Mysticism" by S. Abhayananda, that helped me to clarify my thinking about the divine.

(Abhayananda offers free PDFs of all of his books on his website.)

Abhayananda convinced me that our ideas about God are binitarian, meaning that we can think about God in the Absolute, without name and form (I AM) and God in the relative, with name and form (Jesus, Krishna.)

In Buddhism, there is both the water and the waves. In Taoism, there is both the One and the many. The One exists in everyone and everything, so God is both immanent and transcendant.

Christianity and Western philosophy focus on the individual (not the societal) and the Relative (not the Absolute) and the transcendant (not the immanent) and the waves (not the water) and the many (not the One.)

For example, in the dualistic terms of Creator and creation, God is transcendant (out there) rather than immanent (in here) except in the case of Jesus, who is believed to be both God and man, but not really like us.

Christianity and Western philosophy focus on perfection or sinlessness (not Oneness or wholeness) so our integration is between our selves and our shadows (not between each of us and the water and the other waves.)

>>14754262
Fuck off.

>>14752648
Fuck off.

>>14628833
> another booktuber thread

Can you analyze the episode of Jesus transforming water in wine?

Is Sarah J Maas better than Tanith Lee?

No he got his shit together

>>13566010
It was a sad and pathethic day. Anon had not gone outside for an entire day, deciding to spend it all in the shade. Probably he was lacking Vitamin D, and didn't even realize it. Slowly, he had grown weak, dreaming of being an author of incredible short stories. But little did he realize, that a fit mind is only found in a fit body, and his route of bad thinking took form. Little did he think about eating healthy or being physically active, only on how to ask the Tunesian Shakshouka Cooking Forum TM he visited for advice and lazy shortcuts in life. It was his escapism, for he did not want to acknowledge how badly he had fucked up in life. So he doubled down, a moderately succesful career as a manager did not get him excited anymore, it's either become the best short story author in the world, or nothing at all. He wanted to shoot from the basement to the moon, but little did he know how hard it would be.

>>12809438
>3523x8191

yeah, no thanks

>>12692532
> namefag
Begone, 30 anal fissures newfag.

>>12692404
> low quality P&V shill
Begone, 30 shekel whore.

>>12557842
Reducing bodyfat and having muscles will compensate for some of having an 'ugly-ish' face, and even for some degree of manlethood. Be real. Fix the problems that can be.

Your mode of thought is extremist defeatist. I'm sure the instant you develop any health complications you'll kill yourself.

The idea behind working at social and physical wellness is to develop positive qualities in order to erase or compensate for the negative. As an unofficial anecdote, I went from being a pear shaped anti-socialite to a 7, which made a huge difference for my overall happiness, even if others got laid more often than me. Still, every time I'd see a dude with no body and no social awareness, moaning about nogf, I'd get a surge of joy that I wasn't him anymore. But if you want to focus only on other people's positive qualities, and pretend that they are an excuse to stay ugly on the inside and the outside, then be my guest.

>rule number 1 is be attractive
>dipships don't want to work out or talk to people so they can abide by rule 1

>>12477852
Are you me?

tfw can't stop reading Throne of Glass.

>>11904400
Came to post this

>the cancer killing /lit/

Hi /lit/,

I am looking to develop my German reading skills. What are some good books to start off with? I am not a complete beginner since I had German for 4 years at pre-university school but it is not great either.

Thanks in advance! Decided to use Thomas Mann as end goal.

>>11556348
> Me, got told to fuck off? You are surely mistaken, pal, ha-ha-ha!

roll

>>11396921
Because we are the thought leaders of the counter culture, stupid.

>>11396777
breddy good friendo - as far as free association, idgaf... i'm moderately talented and jaded, stream of consciousness ambivalence-type shit goes.

Except for the conventional use of a naive pipe dream at the end, I liked it, fuckin normie.

Her death was surreal. The three of us watched it. It still does not make sense. Maybe it made sense to the nurse: Just another night shift in palliative care. I could say this: what I saw was paranormal. But life after death, NO. The family with their prayers. Everybody adhering to "Destination: Heaven." Well, fuck a God that creates us to worship him. God is too human. I filed faith away as myth long, long ago.

When they took the tube out, she flinched. I felt her annoyance somewhere deep inside myself. She tensed as if to puke. Her nose wrinkled and she grimaced. The most active I had seen her all day. I know we all leaned in and braced ourselves. Was she hurting or was that an involuntary response? Could she feel that annoyance? Probably just us.

They tell you all kinds of things to make you feel better like the meds are strong enough. "She's feeling no pain." Someone even said that this bag here -- this is the drug that Michael Jackson couldn't get enough of. I am numb, I am crying, I have been both for hours now.

One cannot know. How can you tell? If they say, they do they will lie to you with fear and love.

Mom swallowed hard. The nurse lifted her head and rearranged the pillows. For a moment, mom's eyes opened. I had wished for this for hours. She looked right at me. I was still, and I remember saying "Ma?" and searching for the hope of maybe saying goodbye, or hello, or anything. Her eyes. She wasn't looking at me. Wasn't looking through me. She was in a coma and liver failure. There was nothing behind those eyes. Her eyes opened unnaturally, and all that shone back at me was an abyss. Blackness. Void.

Her blood was poisoned. Her brain was awash in toxins. The inevitability had arrived. We were numb. We understood the abstract nature of "passing." Here was that abstraction.