/lit/ - Literature

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>thinking Stirner's Einzige is related to the Freudian ego or the Dharmic ātman
>not realising Stirner's self, also called the Creative Nothing, is closer to the Buddhist concept of anātman (no-self)

"By bringing the essence into prominence one degrades the hitherto misapprehended appearance to a bare semblance, a deception. The essence of the world, so attractive and splendid, is for him who looks to the bottom of it — emptiness; emptiness is — world's essence (world's doings). ...."

... [F]or 'being' is abstraction, as is even 'the I'. Only I am not abstraction alone: I am all in all, consequently, even abstraction or nothing: I am all and nothing; I am not a mere thought, but at the same time I am full of thoughts, a thought-world. ...."