• Finished reading on 26/06/2025
  • Brilliant book, 5 stars, real gut-punch
  • Disgustingly good short book
  • Disturbing, awakening
  • Themes/Thoughts:
    • Living in the moment / action orientation, rather than “hope” which is hopeless and in the future
    • The Sacred in everything, even (and especially in the profane)
    • To not construct concepts through words (like ‘beauty’, etc.)
    • To reject sensitivity and sentimentality
    • To know what you need, and to fulfill it: To strive, to live
    • To not be heroic, and to take tiny steps
    • To be inhuman, beyond human, alive
    • To be “independed”
  • Some quotes
    • “Cast of this humanization”
    • “This obsession with the future”
    • “This obsession with naming things”
    • Organizing -> leading to not experiencing
    • Material world
    • The bordom / in-between is reality
  • Key concepts
    • The limits of langauge (speaking the unknowable)
    • The collapse of identity
    • The obsession with form and destruction
    • Sacred in the profane
    • Time and being
    • Death and resurrection
    • Asking v/s Being
  • Related to
    • Neitsche, Spinoza
    • Panentheism, Buddhism
    • Confucious and Dao resolution