your opinion about https://www.google.ro/?gws_rd=ssl#q =self+help+books ?

Pales in comparison to what Hegel can offer.

It's not exactly "self" help if you need a fucking book written by another person, is it?

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Literature in general helps a lot

Eckhart Tolle can help you to live a decent life, but as a spiritual seeker I'm positively sick of getting "you're not capable of understanding this but I'll explain it to you anyway".

>spiritual enlightenment
Makes me fucking gag. I bet the person writing that doesn't even have a working knowledge of the history of philosophy.

>>9123286
Why would that be necessary?

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>>9123324
>looking for instant fast-food "spirituality" without lengthy engagement with the western tradition
>implying the first step towards wisdom isn't understanding yourself as a historical subject