
Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great Books
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Choosing to Love to Divinely Love
Words can only go so far and in Herman Hesse's sedata we have this idea that a wise man will sound like a fool or a crazy person when they try to put their wisdom into words. When one person says one thing whether it's the word god or the word love, it's going to mean different things to different people. We might feel if we are lucky we might feel the meaning we might intuit it instinctively but it doesn't mean that we can conceptualize it in words. "When i say the word god it comes with an extraordinary amount of baggage doesn't it"
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