Autobiography of Madame de Guyon: https://amzn.to/2X9CGYn
Mysticism reader: https://amzn.to/3FLbLmY

The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer ends on a negative note. His main work, The World as Will and Representation, exposes the world as Representation, the material world of day to day, as being ultimately empty.

It’s possible to arrive at this insight purely through intellectual speculation, which is what Schopenhauer claimed to have done with his philosophy. Moreover, if you truly understand Schopenhauer’s philosophy on a deep level, you too can arrive at this insight of the ultimate nothingness of the world by purely thinking about it. At least in theory.

Much more likely is the second path. Now we are leaving the realm of metaphysics and entering the realm of ethics.

Schopenhauer advocates an ethics of compassion, but for the truly ethical person, simply being compassionate isn’t enough.

This so-called denial of the Will is another way towards the realization that this material world, is essentially nothing.

The question of course, is: where do we go from here? If philosophy ends in nothingness, what else is there?