Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
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★★★★☆Emil Sinclair is a youth struggling with straddling the world of light and dark, until he crosses paths with Demian who helps show him that embracing the duality of light and dark is the key to mastering the self.
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Meditations
One of those books that I like to call 'required reading'. Marcus Aurelius' writes his stoic thoughts down, and many would say its meager, but the fact that these were the thoughts of a Roman emperor make it much more fascinating and much more human. At some points I was thinking, "Wow, so even a person of this level of power, status and influence could hold these types of thoughts.." I've read this multiple times, and each time there's more to gleam from it than before.
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