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Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom | A Guide to Life

Eternalised

CHAPTER

The Search for Oneself

Many ancient philosophers practice the spiritual exercise of the view from above, in which one moves to a third-person point of view. This imaginative overflight is not to see human affairs as insignificant, but rather to enrich one's life with cosmic significance. In this brief instant, we experience the world as just this, or suchness. The all has no need to come in order to be present. If it is not present, it is because one has distant oneself from it. For LASVINE antiquity was an exercise practiced at each instant.

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