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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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“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
“From shadows and symbols into the truth.”
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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
“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
“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
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