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Curious Humans with Jonny Miller
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The Importance of Integrating the Experience of Reading Your Book
Sean, I've been reflecting on or maybe a better way to describe it is integrating the experience of reading your book. And by wave introduction for listeners who aren't familiar with your work, there's an old Hafez poem that came to mind. It goes something like the small man builds cages for everyone he knows, while the sage keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners. Well dude, I'll see you one Hafez quote and I'll raise you another. My favorite is where he says, true love my dear is wrapping your hands around the soft swollen balls of a divine rogue elephant and not having the good fortune to die.
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