Nicola DiSvevia
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“If I knew anything, it was that there was something I didn’t know. What life meant depended on what it really was. This reality always seemed to narr
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owly escape me.”
Our situation is mystifying. We are born as human beings on planet Earth, and live only to eventually be erased again. Or so it seems at least. But is there more to life and death than we ordinarily recognise?
Confronted with his ignorance and driven by the desire to know reality for what it truly is, the author recounts his search for answers in the form of personal anecdotes, of outwardly often unremarkable but inwardly deeply meaningful experiences. They tell of happiness, awe and ecstasy; of daring and the death of a classmate; of depression and unspeakable grief; and of the beauty of nature as well as its cruelty. They conclude with an experience of absolute being, in which all time is eternally real.
Anecdotes of Wonder is a succinct spiritual memoir, whose tales of the extraordinary are assembled like pieces of a puzzle, to make us glimpse a picture of reality far greater than we commonly know. Through all of life’s trials and tribulations, it offers an ultimately very positive vision: one which inspires hope in the face of death, and which arouses enthusiasm for the adventure of being human.
But above all, it is a paean to the fathomless mystery of conscious reality, to which it opens us with awe and wonder.
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