Horizontal World: Meaning Without a Ceiling

By Olem Diga

What gives a life meaning when certainty begins to disappear?

For some people, questions about God, purpose, morality, and the future do not end with a single answer. They remain, sometimes becoming more difficult after old beliefs have been questioned or left behind.

Horizontal World explores what it means to build a meaningful life in the world as it is: uncertain, temporary, shared with others, and full of both beauty and suffering.

Drawing on philosophy and traditions including Confucianism, Daoism, Zen, Stoicism, and modern humanism, the book examines how people can find meaning without relying on absolute certainty. It considers the role of relationships, responsibility, ritual, attention, character, grief, mortality, and the everyday practices through which a life takes shape.

It also asks harder questions. What grounds morality when there is no divine command? How should we think about power and authority? What happens to our sense of purpose when the universe offers no clear answer? And how do we continue living well when some of life's biggest questions remain unanswered?

Horizontal World is not a defence of religion, nor is it an argument for atheism. It is an exploration of what remains when certainty is no longer enough, and of the resources human beings have developed for living meaningful lives anyway.

The questions are large.

The life we have to live is here.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H2PN1SD5
• ISBN13: 9798197939647
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"