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Quand la perception est juste, l’attention profonde et la connaissance étendue, alors l’on aborde le quotidien dans un état d’émerveillement perpétuel.
Irvin Yalom • La Méthode Schopenhauer (Littérature) (French Edition)
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
Soon, this exercise leads us to the idea articulated by Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Every man’s mind is … modified by all the objects of nature and art; by every word and every suggestion which he ever admitted to act upon his consciousness.”
Joshua Wolf Shenk • Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
philosopher Costica Bradatan illustrates the point by means of a fable about an architect from Shiraz in Persia who designed the world’s most beautiful mosque: a breathtaking structure, dazzlingly original yet classically well proportioned, awe-inspiring in its grandeur yet wholly unpretentious.7 All those who saw the architectural plans wanted to
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
The intoxication of the irrational and the vocation of rapture turn a lucid mind away from the absurd.
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
Ele entende que aventura e segurança são coisas irreconciliáveis.
Alain de Botton • O curso do amor (Portuguese Edition)
It is impossible for H2O to pass from something into nothing, from being into nonbeing.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders
Mental lucidity fulfils itself in many ways.