Books that have improved your life

>>8706710
ON WOMEN BY SCHOPENHAUER LOL

Stop being a narcissistic cunt and grow up. Sage.

>>8706710
art of worldly wisdom by baltasar gracian

>>8706736
Can you expand on the "narcissistic cunt" part of your comment? Also, what, in your mind constitutes being "grown up"?

>>8706742
>art of worldly wisdom
Thanks anon. Was Gracian an 17th century Eckhart Tolle or something?

>>8706818
Don't know about the narcissist cunt part, but as far as growing up its often seen in a lot of adolescent males to suppress their emotions by feigning stoicism.
My experience with meditations was similar in a way, that when I read it, it helped me through depression, and I felt as though I could fill the void of emotion with duty.
As I grew I realized that its better to express your emotions, and sure while it is admirable to maintain composure in stressful/heartbreaking moments, to hold yourself back is burdening. Its a tough case to make, I know, but you're gonna feel better once you start screaming with excitement and laughing and crying and everything instead of just limiting yourself to stoic emptiness. Its common to succumb to murky disdain under the stoic guidance, don't be a condescending shmuck who no one can relate to.
That being said, Marcus says a lot of good things in there, about duty and purpose, and the attitudes toward meeting each day. I recall him mentioning something like meeting each morning like the deer, and just getting out of bed so you can live, and while its easier to just sit there tired, you gotta get up.
Also note that Marcus Aurelius did lots of drugs and sat around fucking boys after his children died and when he wrote this. Theres a lot of argument on whether he was a dutiful worker, or just another Lotus Eater.

>>8706855
idk if you're the person who posted the original comment. Regardless of prior posting, thank you for the insightful response. I found the book more applicable to my work/ambitions than to my life as a whole. I'm a social person, and don't consider myself emotionally stifled. The depression I experience comes and goes, and is more of the low-energy, low-motivation/interest type than a "woe is me" existential distress kind.

I'm just trying to find ways to pick myself up, and avoid negative thinking during the weeks that I am in a bit of a mental/physical rut.

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>>8706742
Such an underrated gem of a book. Probably goes way over the head of the self-help types.

>>8706918
>>8706742
What edition of the book would you recommend?

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I do not know if it has "improved" my life, but reading this was cathartic in some way.

>>8706855
I did something similar. When I was younger a sense of duty excused me from taking risks and enjoying life. Then I had a breakdown and became a romantic adventurer. It's a lot more fun and it's made me more ambitious as a result.

>>8706713
>Every kind of love, however ethereal it may seem to be, springs entirely from the instinct of sex;

Stopped reading there.

>>8706855
checked

Adolescent stoicism actually has helped me later in life. Being serious and stoic when I was a teen has helped me remain calm in situations when calm is needed. While being emotionless 100% is unarguably unhealthy, learning to suppress emotion when it's necessary is a vital skill.

>>8706942
>allowing yourself to be cucked by the neurochemical Jew

>>8706710

Unique and its Own.

>>8706971
It's fucking rad man. Why would you deny the feeling of pleasure and pain?

>>8706971
Who is "the neurochemical Jew"?

>>8707005
Heebie the Heroin dealer.

>>8707005
Serotonin

>>8707012
What about Adrenaline, Oxytocin, Melatonin, Cortisol, and Dopamine?

>>8707023
Memes. All of them

Your life is a meme.

>>8706914
You're going to find that 95% of the population (of your demographic) feel the same way, and you're going to find that no matter how hard you try to have a conversation about it with them, it won't work.

>>8707012
But the chemicals trust the other chemicals to type that?

>>8707061
Pssshhh you're just a collection of waves emanating from a source and being focused by my senses into a coherent virtual image that exists inside of my mind and is categorized using chemical tags as a human based on the chemical response your waves induce in me ....

bitch!