What is it that drives human beings beyond mere survival — to build cathedrals, compose symphonies, pursue truth at any cost, and ask why there is something rather than nothing?
Longing explores the force at the heart of human experience that the ancient Greeks called Erōs — not mere desire or appetite, but the horizon-shaped hunger that is never finally satisfied, that builds rather than consumes, that opens rather than closes.
Drawing on cosmology, mythology, and biography, William Zeitler traces Longing from the Big Bang to human consciousness, arguing that this restlessness is not a private quirk of psychology but something woven into the fabric of Reality itself.
Along the way we encounter Plato and Rumi, Persephone and Parsifal, Bach and Ramanujan, the shaman at the edge of the village and the mystic in the dark night of the soul.
Part meditation, part mythic exploration, Longing is written for the reader who suspects that the most important things in us are not problems to be solved — but paths to be walked.
Format: Paperback, 6"x9", 134 pages
ISBN: 978-1-940630-04-5