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“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.”
― The Revolt of the Masses
― The Revolt of the Masses
“Above all, it taught him how to listen, to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.”
― The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Meaning and reality were not somewhere beyond things, they were in them, in everything.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”
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Steven’s 2025 Year in Books
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