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What‘s the one book that leaves you feeling like life‘s damn good after all?
Because i really need that in my life right now. Thanks a lot dear frens.

>> No.13076873
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13076873

always the Tao Te Ching for getting through the dark times

>> No.13076883

>>13076873
love the tao te ching!

>> No.13076885

>>13076873
Sounds comfy. Thanks!

>> No.13076890

Read some Emerson and transcendentalism. It'll give you a little more pep to your step ;)

>> No.13076908

>>13076873
>she

>> No.13076985

Prometheus Rising
Makes me feel like no matter how fucked up my mind is at the moment I can always 're-program' it with the tools the book gives

>> No.13077018

>>13076873
Taoism is one of the very few things keeping me going. Some reason it makes me feel clam and that everything might turn out right in the end.

>> No.13077029
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>>13077018
i only got into it during a major depressive episode but ever since then i've always known that it has this weird power to always be more on-point than whatever horrible feelings i am having. really one of the greatest books ever written

Laozi even says that, he says, 'people abandon the Way but the Way does not abandon people.' it's really true too. i go off and read all kinds of other stuff and then i come back and it's all there, as if to say, 'so, you're back again, hm?'

this is my favorite edition

>> No.13077045

>>13076873
>"bee lake woter my fren".
Cheap philosophy. No wonder it appeals to
>she

>> No.13077064

Old pond
Frog jumps in
Sound of water

>> No.13077066

>>13077045
We really don‘t need this itt. It‘s only for fren feelings. Sorry anon.

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>>13077029
It has a power over me, too. I keep it and the other pieces of Tao literature close to my heart. It's also nice to read in the tranquility of nature, if you get a chance. Hope you can find a way out of your darkness, anon.

>> No.13077151

>>13076865
but life isn't good fren :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXXAYlkUn-M

>> No.13077488

>>13076873
Exotic things good
Western things bad
>I was very depressed then this [insert random foreign "philosophy" cherry picked for its
similarity with christian theology] really changed my life
kys yourself my dude

>> No.13077670

>>13076908
>faggot

>> No.13077676

Moby Dick

>> No.13077684

Confessions by St. Augustine.
I don't believe in God and I've probably read/listened to it three or four times now.

>> No.13078602

>>13076865

You know, now that I think about it all the books I like/have read are completely the opposite of what you want. The Unbearable Likeness of Being, A Country Doctors Notebook, Notes from the Underground, 1984, Revolutionary Road, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Master and Margarita, literally none of these could I say you should read if you want to feel happy and as though there is hope. Go watch Fawlty Towers.

>> No.13078639

>>13077151
The face of the gig economy.

>> No.13079735

>>13076865
American Psycho. It'll help you understand that you can do anything.

>> No.13080028

>>13079735
>Man is in hell