Perspective 🔬🔭🏔️

there is a very ancient reflective tradition on the view from above that is still interesting today. Pierre Hadot studied this ancient tradition and came to the conclusion that the view from above, for ancient philosophers such as Platonists, Epicureans and Stoics, is a kind of practice, of exercise of physics, to the extent that – with the help of... See more

The smaller one comes to feel compared to the mountain, the nearer one comes to sharing in its greatness. I don’t know why this is so. — Arne Naess