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“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” TS Elliot

Real

Wow.

When in doubt Go outside, take a walk, sit by a tree Let the full spectrum ☀️ light run your thoughts Open sky >> Closed 4 walls

one reason the majority of people dislike modern art is because it’s so low energy signing a urinal and placing it in a museum? low energy ducttaping a banana to a wall? low energy hanging a blank canvas on the gallery wall? LOW ENERGY

The Paradox of Distance

Michaelangelo explains the relationship between the artist and God

Taking 50,000 steps to hike a single mountain is going to be more rewarding than taking the same number of steps in a flat field, going around in circles. This is also why reading one great 300-page book is more rewarding than reading 300 pages of your twitter timeline

Frank Wilczek’s “A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design”

there is a specific 1665 book that is full of bangers like this

study Michaelangelo

The epic nordic novels of Sigrid Undset. Technically, they are classics - but totally forgotten ones.

"Moving somewhere with better career prospects is ambitious and a smart decision, but moving somewhere with better marriage prospects seems like madness, a desperate gamble. Is finding a spouse not as important, if not more important, than our careers? As Brad Wilcox reports in his book Get Married, marriage is a stronger predictor of happiness than having a job and even of having an above-average income. Employment raises the odds of happiness by about 50 percent, a high income by about 88 percent, and marriage by about 151 percent. Why, then, do we gather data on everything that could possibly affect our careers, but not our marriages?"

Circle of Reading by Tolstoy. It's a collection of quotes and short stories by Tolstoy and other thinkers on morality, God, life and religion with a different topic for each day of the year.

The first three books of Colin Wilson's "Outsider Cycle." The Outsider, Religion and the Rebel, and The Age of Defeat. They get steadily more "meh" before finally getting more interesting toward the 6th and 7th book, but those 3 for sure!

It's is a quote from François de La Rochefoucauld but I believe it is not well translated. A more accurate translation is that reflects the philosophers intention would be. “Absence exstingishes small passions and increases great ones. Like the wind blows out a candle and blows in a fire”

Read it multiple times and loved each time

Nothing makes the soul so pure, so religious, as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and who-ever strives for it, strives for something that is Godlike. True painting is only an image of God's perfection, a shadow of the pencil with which He paints, a melody, a striving after harmony. MICHAEL ANGELO.