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Inner Experience

His is a journey marked by the questioning of experience itself, until what is reached is sovereign laughter, non-knowledge, and a Presence in no way distinct from Absence, where "The mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy coexist."

Subject
philosophy
Themes
religion
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 244 pages

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