The unity behind the contradictions

Name: The unity behind the contradictions
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Religions and myths

Autor: Hermann Hesse

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Sinopse

Through Christianity, Hinduism and Zen, Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, presents in The Unity Behind Contradictions his conception of religion in a series of essays, poems and letters.

The austerity of his family of Protestant pastors led Hermann Hesse to question religion from an early age. Torn between artistic expression, spirituality, and bourgeois experience, he was also heavily influenced by psychoanalysis. The diversity of ideas and concepts led him on a journey of self-discovery through literature, which can be seen in books such as Siddhartha and Steppenwolf , but which finds its greatest expression in the selection of texts in *The Unity Behind Contradictions: Religions and Myths* .

In this book, Hesse brings together observations on human forms of devotion. He dissects what is common to all beliefs, what transcends national or cultural differences and can be part of the faith of any individual and any race. These are impressions and images from humanity's most remote religions and myths, from the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, and modern forms of religious ideology.

The concept of grace is strongly present. From the idea of the world as a whole, a divine unity to which we must be connected to achieve happiness, we are faced with the possibility of, behind every error, despite every failure, disconnecting from the ego.

Life only acquires meaning when one leaves behind a naive pursuit of selfish pleasure and attributes it to a servitude—to a religion, to a philosophy—for, as Hermann Hesse states, it is in this servitude that its meaning arises. By finding this meaning, one finds the unity behind all that exists. After all, "humanity, though still divided into alien and hostile races and cultures, is one and possesses common possibilities, ideals, and goals."