Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: Life is full of suffering and full of beauty | Yeonmi Park 

We in Cambodia went through what North Korea is going through every day. Keep fighting for your people Yeonmi!

I've never heard North Korean life described in such detail. We never talked about the Korean War in school, probably because America failed there. Thank you for informing so many people here- nothing can change until people are properly educated on what North Korea is really like.

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Yeah amazing she is not traumatized for life thank god she finally got out of there.

I loved Siddhartha. Read it as a teen and an adult and found it amazing. I tried Steppenwolf recently and was disappointed. To me, it felt immature and self-indulgent, like something written by an undergraduate student.

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@@googleisretarded7618 Funnily I felt the other way round. Read Steppenwolf as a teen and liked it ok. Read Sid recently and really liked but felt like it was a bit limited in depth (though I don't want to overstate that as loved.) Reread Steppenwolf and was totally blown away. On a superficial level I think it was really creative and engrossing, but I think that perhaps what some people see as a naive romanticism in that book is much deeper than that and that there is an honesty in its apparent self-indulgence that Sid glosses over. I think Sid tries to sum life up a bit while Steppenwolf engages with how mysterious and confusing reality and even our own selves are. And how questionable precisely the value of maturity or a bird's eye view on life is. To my mind Hesse was aware that when he thought he'd understood life he really hadn't. As Bob Dylan says "I was so much older then I'm younger than that now". If you ever feel inclined do give it a reread

​@@googleisretarded7618give it another chance my friend. Trust me

If you tune the eb to an e you get one of the best open tunings out there 🤘

some people get a little uncomfortable/anxious when they do that, which makes them lose their train of thought.

@@Innocence44 Understandable :)

he just seems really shy and respectful to me .... especially around Yeonmi =)

I'm married to such a hybrid. Best friend, best lover, best person I have ever known.

@@JaiUneGuruDeja I'm left more questions than answers 🤔

@@JoeNathan42420 that’s part of their magic

I don't mean to be disrespectful but how does your comment about who you are married correlate with mine? Unless you're married to the young lady I originally made a comment about.

@@JoeNathan42420 I could be out of bounds. what I saw in the young lady you mentioned was femininity. she reminded me of my Korean born wife who has lived in the US for that past 30 years.

I’ll give you that, but there’s nothing “beautiful” about pain and suffering; tell that to a mother that has lost a child.

@@caribgirl726 I understand there is no greater suffering than a loss of a child. But what I am talking about is an outlook for life. Be more objective about what you are going through. I mean don't be the suffering, be an objective spectator of your own suffering. If you are able to do that, I am sure you will learn something more about yourself.

she said it beautifully as well, “i live for love, all types of it,” as well as lex, “the annoying parts too” as it shows the beauty of siddhartha, the annoying parts are just as worthy of love as the peaks :)

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I agree. This lady is lovely and admirable, but this life is saturated with unimaginable pain and suffering. I don’t see how or why been kicked when you are barely getting up, over and over would be necessary for anything at all. It’s like the universe and/or whatever forces out there hates us, it hates some of us more than others.

@@caribgirl726 Agree you getting up and walking a bit ..here the system creates a situation where you completely fall. What kind of simulation you are building .I challenge the philisophy is very weak behind God like Technology.

Abbey tyagi yaha kya kar raha h 🤣

You are definitely lost friend, sorry he doesn't have the same love of pokemon strategie books or the twilight series but dont worry there are plenty of snobby scholars like you at Starbucks. Just go to Berkeley and you will find plenty of lost souls to bitch with.

Interesting view opposite to most of the other here

What are the best books then?

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