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Any books about giving up on life/dropping out of society?

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By the picture you couldn’t tell?

>> No.14494330

>>14494261
He's highly recommended around these parts but Cormac McCarthy has some good stuff. Especially his early, Appalachian based, works (Child of God, The Outer Dark, Suttree).
He deals very much with reclusive, nomadIC, and hermetic habits. McCarthy himself is very private and a social recluse himself so it really hits.

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>> No.14494379

>>14494359
Now you've got me questioning myself. I've already read Laozi (as well as other Taoist texts, even the more obscure ones), the Pure Land Sutras, Walden, and In Praise of Shadows. I really liked all of them. I didn't know I was on my way to becoming a "hermit-aesthete," although I am quite reclusive...

>> No.14494386

>>14494261
Begome Christian sadhu
https://youtu.be/rqJj193aNn4

>> No.14494404

>>14494386
https://youtu.be/sVrSVwoJ34Y

>> No.14494597

How do I give up on life

>> No.14494734

Since you posted an Orthodox monk, I would really recommend the Philokalia. It's not strictly about dropping out of society, but more the practices of Orthodox monks over the last couple thousand years. I personally felt cheated when I learned that many of the things people claim to be exclusive to Dharmic religion are deeply familiar to the Orthodox faith. The Philokalia concerns inner silence and purity of heart just as much as any great Eastern text.

>> No.14494888

>>14494261
>>14494734
This is correct. Other texts in this vein you might be interested in are anything about the Desert Fathers, The Way of a Pilgrim, or saint's lives' chronicles, especially St. Moses the Ethiopian or other monastic saints.

>> No.14494893

>>14494734
>>14494888
Are there any Orthodox writings that are purely metaphysical? In the vein of the writings of Plotinus, Damascius, etc.

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>>14494597

>> No.14495104

>>14494893
Try Pseudo-Dionysius's works.

>> No.14495113

>>14495104
Isn't there any authors apart from him?

>> No.14495135

>>14495113
Climacus, Palamas, and John of Damascus.

>> No.14495147

>>14495135
Thank you, anon.

>> No.14496095

>>14494261
Anyone has the source of the picture? I remember it was on youtube.

>> No.14496224

>>14496095
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZqEDhKKPl-o

>> No.14496299

all you need is john 15:18-19

>> No.14496749

>>14496224
gosh...

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Orthodoxy is some faggot emo shit. Hurr durr I don't like life! Woe is me, I live in a self-imposed misery, ugh, death to the world! Forgive, I am a sinner :((( I wish suicide wasn't a sin!

>> No.14498438

>>14494261
my diary desu

>> No.14498442

>>14494261
Why are there 10 threads about dorpping out of society all of a sudden?

Well, it's some intelligence agency obviously, but which one and for which purpose