Oh wow, just realized "Narcissus and Goldmund" is one book - I thought you were referring to 2 different books - "Narcissus" and "Goldmund"

Adding this to my to-read list. Thanks a lot Marcus - and wow, the excerpt is interesting. He's essentially talking about Yog - Union with everything.

Yog and Liberation (Nirvana) seem like 2 opposite paths - one towards absolute expansion, other towards infinite contraction, but they somehow seem to conceptually end the same way.

Words are obfuscating what I want to convey but yea, thanks for reading, responding, and suggesting these books Marcus.