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Can /lit/ recommend me any literature that may alter how I perceive myself in the world? My biggest barrier in life is my own ego and how I perceive how others see me.

Has any philosophy made you re-evaluate your place in the world? I just want to accept that in the end everything is insignificant, enabling me to move on with my life and achieve the things that really matter to me.

I'm not especially well read, but would like something a little deeper than those formulaic Self-Helps you see. The type that have one technique that is then padded out to 100 pages through fictional examples and repetition.

>> No.3292835

Just post honestly on /lit/ for a few weeks

Seriously, I've had to rethink all kinds of things about my own worldview from posting here these past couple of years

>> No.3292839

>>3292829
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_nLCZ3LKus

>> No.3292846

>I just want to accept that in the end everything is insignificant, enabling me to move on with my life and achieve the things that really matter to me.

If everything is insignificant then what is there to accept?

>> No.3293001

>>3292846
You seem to have a problem with causality. It won't be insignificant to him unless he accepts it first, will it?

>> No.3293083

>>3292835
I agree with this. Posting in an anonymous forum will knock you right off of any high horse you have, as long as you keep an open mind and remember to take people's random rages with a grain of salt.

>> No.3293100

>I just want to accept that in the end everything is insignificant, enabling me to move on with my life and achieve the things that really matter to me.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations.
Solomon - Bible, Ecclesiastes

>> No.3293102

>>3293083

It also helps to clear your name field if you want unbiased replies. Namefagging defeats much of the purpose

>> No.3293107

>>3293083
>Posting in an anonymous forum will knock you right off of any high horse you have

bullshit, anonymity leads to a childish kind of egotism.

>> No.3293136

>>3293107
you trying to prove this out of the arse claim by posing as a prime example?

>> No.3293164

>>3293107

True, but it also doesn't give any points for free. Posts have to stand on their own legs.

>> No.3293166

Phillip K. Dick writes amazing books that have to do with our perceptions of reality and how we fit into that chaos. This guy was way ahead of his time....

I'd recommend Ubik or Flow My Tears the Policeman Said.

>> No.3295539

>>3293100
seconded, both of them.
ecclesiastes first because of literary qualities.
but marcus is stone cold

>> No.3295540

>>3293100
Listen to this guy

>> No.3295543

>>3293100

Isn't the message of Ecclesiastes along the lines of 'everything is meaningless, therefore faith.'?

>> No.3295552

>>3293166

>pomo author writing in a pomo era was way ahead of his time

Plenty of people were doing the same thing at the same time

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3295559

>>3293100
>Meditations
Marcus is literally saying
>do good because Fate/Gods
>if no gods, then why not kill myself?
I hate this book.
And people think it's a foundation for morality or something.

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3295824

posted a few days ago here, has some recommendations

>> No.3295895

>>3295824
I think I'll just kill myself.