ALIF

33 Contemplations on the Return to Love

von Anissa Lalahoum

114 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"This is not a poem. It is a reminder."ALIF explains nothing. It reminds.All our lives, we look for love outside ourselves. In the proofs we accumulate, the conquests we add up, the empires we build to fill a void that may never have existed. We press on, convinced that love must be earned, that we must become vast to be worthy of a single glance. And we walk right past the one thing that was waiting, untouched, beneath the masks.In twenty-nine contemplations, a voice speaks to that hurried being, worn out from carrying what he takes to be his own face. The voice is Love itself. It does not judge. Nor does it console. It unveils. Page after page, it removes the inherited lenses through which we mistake the world for an adversary, it gives their joy back to those who have fallen, it sets down the burdens we carried without ever choosing them. And it reminds us of one simple thing, which pride can hardly bear: love is not earned. You already are it.The book moves in three passages - the unveiling, the transformation, the union - like a slow return toward a centre we had never truly left. Written in a spare, unadorned language, halfway between poem and reminder, ALIF can be read in a single sitting or opened at random, on any page, like a threshold book kept close at hand. Each contemplation is sealed with a calligraphic mark by the author's own hand, where the written word and the stroke are one."You can know everything about me, and never have known me."In an age when almost everything can be known and so little is truly lived, ALIF moves the place of the sacred - not into the answer, but into presence. It does not try to convince. It reminds. A book to read slowly, and to reread for a long time - until one morning, without knowing how, you remember what you have always been.

• Themen: Ratgeber Körper und Geist
• ISBN: 9798997149222
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.06.2026
• Größe: 210 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Amour