I could really go on like a 15-book tangent here and tell why each mattered a lot to me, and I really should be reading more as is, but I think my favorite book by far, and the one that was the most impactful on myself and provoked a lot of thoughts would be the novelΒ βGrowth of the Soilβ by Knut Hamsun.Β
It helped me understand the relationship more intimately between man and nature, man and man, and ultimately man and God. It helped me understand freedom, which is freedom to (more broadly understood by Nietzsche, Dugin, etc) rather than freedom *from* which is just a mockery of the idea of freedom (it subordinates your will to that of your id, you are no longer judged for your problems/mistakes/etc and you are free to keep lowering yourself down to animal level). Loneliness, even when he was with his wife and children, was a primary component, but also so was contentedness. One must be able to master being content with life, or else you are always on the chase for some new high, and you will also be destroyed by the excessive low itβll bring shortly after. Also, it made me much more interested in wanting to live away from technology (ironic as I type this on a computer, and check it later on my phone) to some degree, as it can easily contribute to self-destruction.Β
I think I did an okay job of explaining ideas from the book without also spoiling anything if you choose to read it ever.Β