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You have only to “stay tuned,” and you can arrive at a perpetual state of confusion and, ultimately, despair with no effort at all.
“The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
“Why am I supposed to be afraid of the dark? People die from hunger, from cold, from injury and illness, but what peril is there in the sun going down? It is an interior darkness, the darkness of mind, that is deadly, not the dark of night.”
― A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
― A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
“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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“read and inquire as a free adult is to take on the awesome responsibility of allowing oneself to be changed.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
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