All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

by Hubert L. Dreyfus

And finally—for that reason—it is an experience that requires recognizing the need for practices to “propitiate the divine.”14

When a wave is at its most powerful it is a solid foundation that can support as many riders as will fit upon it.

At the beginning of a real game, there is no way of predicting or controlling what will happen. No one can produce or guarantee the flow of a game. It unfolds and reveals itself in the playing. It inspires grace and despair, it provokes heroics and failure, it infuses enthusiasm and inflicts misery.

was the name for the way the most real things in the world present themselves to us.

If we had to translate Homer’s word physis, then whooshing is about as close as we can get.