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To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work.
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“The freedom of a leisurely activity is the freedom from results or outcomes beyond it, not the freedom of rest or recreation.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
“From shadows and symbols into the truth.”
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“for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are robbed of all significant effect and reduced to the level of a banality, philosophy will never prosper.”
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
“To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.”
― Parochial and Plain Sermons
― Parochial and Plain Sermons
“The more we come to depend on the images offered to us by those who try to distract us, entertain us, use us for their purposes, and make us conform to the demands of a consumer society, the easier it is for us to lose our identity.”
― The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen
― The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen
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