Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
One book that changed me was reading Master and Margarita in Russian for the first time.<p>It was the first book I started reading I could not put down until the end. Gained a lot of appreciation for literature at that time.<p>The other book that I enjoyed and changed me was ‘The Wisdom of Insecurity’ by Alan Watts. I was a fan of Alan Watts works through his lectures already and it was wonderful to hear his ideas in writing for the first time.<p>The book is available to read for free online (<a href="https://antilogicalism.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/wisdom-of-insecurity.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://antilogicalism.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/wisdom-of...</a>).<p>I wish everyone read or watched Alan Watts lectures and books. The world would be a much nicer place if that was the case.<p>My favorite quote is by him:<p>‘We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.’