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To Be for To Have / To Have for To Be: Relearning to Be in a World Obsessed with Having
Paperback
Series: Paths of the Soul, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 5 2025
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the emptiness we feel were not a fate, but a form of forgetfulness?
What if we never needed more to exist, but only to see more clearly what we already have?
In To Be for To Have / To Have for To Be, Noorwan offers an inner journey that speaks to everyone: believers, seekers of meaning, and lovers of silence.
Far from moralizing discourse, this book invites a simple and essential reconciliation, the reconciliation of man with himself.
In nine chapters, the author unfolds a path of simplicity and rebirth: a passage from the noise of Having to the peace of Being.
You will discover:
- Why modern society sustains the feeling of lack,
- How work, power, and image shape our identities,
- Why true happiness is born from connection, not possession,
- And how Being, once rediscovered, naturally becomes abundant.
Rooted in universal wisdom, Qur'anic, Christian, and philosophical, and written in a clear and contemplative style, To Be for To Have / To Have for To Be bridges inner faith with the lucidity of the modern world.
Each page is a breath; each word, an invitation to live differently, with gratitude, clarity, and freedom.
We have everything to Be, yet we spend our lives trying to Have.
Noorwan
This book is for those who feel that another way of existing is possible: slower, truer, more luminous.
Neither theological essay nor self-help manual, it belongs to that rare lineage of literature of the soul, where words become mirrors and silence becomes teaching.
Through contemporary spirituality, it explores the search for meaning, the light of the soul, and inner wisdom, a path of awakening where philosophy of happiness and spiritual freedom meet.
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