the Will to Be: A Philosophy on Meaning of Life, What Human Beings Truly Want, and an Answer Nietzsche's Power

A hundred and fifty years ago, Friedrich Nietzsche looked into the heart of life and found a will there: the will to power. This book claims he was wrong. Power is not the deepest drive of everything alive. It is the will to become what is laid down inside you. The seed does not want to rule the forest - it wants to be a great tree. And the same will lies in every human being. Where it is lost, the hunger for power arises in its place: the restless striving to be more than others, because one no longer knows what one is oneself. A philosophy book that reads like a story. In Part One you meet Ehyah and Oz - two men in the Jerusalem of a distant age, when a king was building as no king had ever built. One has achieved everything and become nothing. The other is young, hungry, on the straight road upward - and follows the old man in order to refute him. What begins as a quarrel becomes a journey to the lowest place on earth. In Part Two the philosophy behind it is set out in plain language: the reckoning with Nietzsche, the path of the three transformations - seed, root, tree - and what all of it means for your life. On an ordinary day. In your work, with your children, in your strength. This book is for you if you - know the feeling of achieving everything and still coming up empty - sense that comparing, climbing and proving will never satisfy you - want to know who you are when everything that can be given to you is taken away - are looking for a philosophy that does not lecture, but lands - love books like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Siddhartha or The Alchemist It does not want to win you over. It wants to loosen the earth a little. The breaking open is yours. The seed does not wish to be king of the forest. The seed wishes to be a great tree.