/lit/ - Literature

>>10139435
/fitlit/ here to save the day

>>10139435
philosophy is not self-help for your weak mind. Go read the power of now if you need some trite feel-good vacuity.

>>10139435
>>feeling like a faggot
That's probably because you're actually a faggot, anon. Stop posting frogs and your pathetic life will be a tad less pathetic. End your life and your parents' life will be even better; /lit/ will slightly improve, too.

Eat your goddamn fibers and lay of those damning carbohydrates.

maps of meaning by jordan peterson

>>10139438
seems like a list on how to be a self-help douche (speaking from experience)

>>10139557
>maps of meaning
that actually looks pretty interesting.

self-help books are a fuckin joke

help yourself by being what you want to be, asshole. make the change now instead of reading about it

>>10139435

i got you fellow /lit/izen

Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, first and foremost. Read this if nothing else here.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung

>>10139557
is pretty decent but it might be a lot denser text than what you are looking for. If you're feeling less adventurous, check out Joseph Campbell's work but Peterson does a much more comprehensive look into the personal metanarrative.

Hope this helps.

Eckhart Tolle: the Power of Now, if you can't free download then start with YouTube. fastest path is his cd: Through the Open Door.

>>10141280
Not OP. I tried reading his book and I just didn't get it. It all seemed like mystical mumbo jumbo to me and I couldn't understand it, though I wanted to.

>>10139435
Mindfulness in plain English
The war of art
The hero with a thousand faces
The way of the superior man

>>10141296
Don't listen to that guy, he is a troll

>>10139435
Everything in this thread is a meme desu. They won't actually help you. Only a shotgun to the head will.

>>10141331
>The way of the superior man
"she wants to know your dark side"
>get told she never wants to see you again and blocked on social media
fun times

>>10139435
The Tao of Pooh

>>10139438
Thanks anon! Upboat

>>10139493
>broscience
How does it feel to have a brain the size of a peanut?

>>10139435
Read the Bhagavad Gita, it is the summary of all Vedic wisdom.

What you're looking for is happiness in the moment, not enjoyment.

This made me a better person.

Hegel's lectures on aesthetics have given more appreciation for life than any other philosophy

>>10139438
lmao so fucking bad. /lit/ can be /fit/ but /fit/ can not into /lit/ no matter how hard they try

>>10139557
>>10140626
peterson is not a great writer, that book feels over-edited and i think he even recognized it at some point

still a nice read and some section are great, it's well referenced too so it can always be used as a starting point to go deeper

>>10141372
>"she wants to know your dark side"
>>get told she never wants to see you again and blocked on social media
it only works if you have a square jaw, sorry

>>10139438

You might be able to convince my gf to cheat on me, but you still have absolutely irredeemable taste in lit you pleb.

I don't have a gf.

>>10139435
You already are yourself, you can't improve on that

>>10139435
the ego and its own by max stirner

>>10145827
isn't improving spooky?

>>10139435
If you want enjoying the present, Camus is your man. The closing essays in Myth of Sisyphus, Exile and the Kingdom, A Happy Death, and even his unfinished A First Man would do you well. Camus absolutely loved life and despite his reputation as an edgelord his works truly show appreciation for life.