There's also the works of Gurdjieff, who was brilliant and one of a tiny handful of actually enlightened people on Earth. His stuff is a treasure trove that I would recommend over almost every source of wisdom I've came across.
“A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.”
I genuinely don't believe they're real people. The NPC theory isn't just a meme. Check this out: https://montalk.net/matrix/157/spiritless-humans
There's also the works of Gurdjieff, who was brilliant and one of a tiny handful of actually enlightened people on Earth. His stuff is a treasure trove that I would recommend over almost every source of wisdom I've came across.
“A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.”