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Life would be easier if we surrounded ourselves only with people like us. But we would never learn to enjoy conflict and tension, which are essential for intellectual growth.
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― The Art of Thinking Clearly
― The Art of Thinking Clearly
“
I contemplate a tree.
I can accept it as a picture: a rigid pillar in a flood of light, or splashes of green traversed by the gentleness of the blue silver ground.
I can feel it as movement: the flowing veins around the sturdy, striving core, the suckling of the roots, the breathing of the leaves, the infinite commerce with earth and air - and the growing itself in its darkness.
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