The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness: How Awareness Is the Beginning and End of Suffering

The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness: How Awareness Is the Beginning and End of Suffering - Paperback

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The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness: How Awareness Is the Beginning and End of Suffering
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The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness: How Awareness Is the Beginning and End of Suffering - Paperback

The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness: How Awareness Is the Beginning and End of Suffering - Paperback

by Robert Pantano
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Book Overview

From the author of The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence comes a moving, accessible, and ultimately hopeful series of meditations on the gifts and burdens of self-awareness.

Whether we realize it or not, all of us experience the pain of self-awareness. In an age when we are aware of so much--about ourselves and the world--this pain can be overwhelming. But the same awareness that causes us pain also opens the door to beauty and wonder. This is the paradox of self-awareness.

In a series of poignant aphorisms and short essays, Robert Pantano offers nuanced approaches to confronting, understanding, and living within this paradox. Rather than pretending to provide certainty or easy answers, this thought-provoking collection offers ideas and space for reflection--for living well and finding comfort and peace without clear solutions.

Focusing on major issues of today such as personal alienation, nihilism, the futility of progress, and the malleability of truth, as well as on timeless struggles such as desire, anxiety, aging, and death, this work explores powerful philosophical and psychological ideas in an impressively succinct and memorable way.
ISBN9798881602345
Author Robert Pantano
PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
GenreSelf-help & personal development and Philosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages192
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Robert Pantano is the founder and writer behind the popular philosophy and self-development YouTube channel, "Pursuit of Wonder." He is the author of several self-published books, including The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence and The Art of Living an Absurd Existence.

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