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“For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”

“The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

This book was given to me by a coworker to read. Man…….. this is good.

I am in fact never finished with this audio book

These names 🥲

This is a series of novellas. I just read Fire and Cloud in one sitting. I don’t currently have the words to express how hard that one was to read. It was brutally honest.

Goggins mode

“but the more I do this work the more I believe in a kind of holiness in our connection to everything on Earth. Holy is the mouse. Holy is the grain the mouse eats. Holy is the seed. Holy are we.”

Started this about a week ago for class. Not my favorite but it’s getting better as I read on.

She be trying

Currently working on my eulogy thanks to Donald Miller

Bringing clarity to some of my confusion in life. This is great.

This be tough

The Grand Inquisitor 🫂

This is neat-o

Nietzsche, he says a lot. Essentially, dark motive is human nature. We desire “the will to power”…. sounds a little like Capitalist America. You are to become your own god. Human existence is a tragedy.

I don’t agree with him a lot, but I like what he says about Art. He views art as somewhat of an antidote to this painful life we live… I like art.

Kant 😵‍💫

Socrates’ Ion:

Socrates is a lot more of a fan of poetry than Plato.

“And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired…”

I like that.

Plato’s Republic, Book X

Three Arts concerned with all things:
-one which uses
-one which makes
-one which imitates

The user has the greatest experience.

Imitators (poets) know only appearance and not what is real.

True Beauty and Rightness is relative exclusively to Nature or the Artist.

Poetry can be enjoyed but to assume that it is right would be a betrayal of truth.

Very insightful

671 pages in. This is delightful.

These characters are becoming increasingly real. I’ve never read literature quite like this before. It’s wonderful.

“Disciplinary society is still governed by ‘no’. Its negativity produces madmen and criminals. In contrast, achievement society creates depressives and losers.”