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What is the difference between an influential book and and a favorite book? Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals influenced me heavily and I think about it often, though it is not a book I would want buried in my casket. What level of acknowledgment can be given to a book while insisting it is not your favorite?
Centuries of Mediation is a book caught up in that question. When I was not trying to read it at 2am, it is it’s own fever dream of delights that expands oneself. Reading it makes the world feel and taste fresher; it makes a long stretch in the sun holy and a 10 minute late arrival to class look natural. The whole world is made for me, and that’s more then what Nietzsche can say about the purpose of man in the world.
Treherne is a man who knows he is living for happiness and that happiness requires an acknowledgment of what one can and can’t do with their senses and, more importantly, how the world touches you. The world brings you to love yourself and others. If you can not stare at a speck of sand longingly- if you cannot appreciate an empty space- if the common air itself brings not a feeling of felicity- you are misunderstanding the existence God created and the nature in which his nature created.
A book that thoroughly disrupts you and awakens new awareness's of life is worthy to keep in you bookshelf.
A book that is your favorite deserves to be displayed in prominent places.
This book is worth so much more, It deserves to be gifted with all its highlights, crease, and stains.
It is a book I would recommend every one to read the first 75 pages of and if you want to read it to the end, it has moved from influential to a favorite, and an author worthy of dinning out with friends at Cheesecake Factory.
Centuries of Mediation is a book caught up in that question. When I was not trying to read it at 2am, it is it’s own fever dream of delights that expands oneself. Reading it makes the world feel and taste fresher; it makes a long stretch in the sun holy and a 10 minute late arrival to class look natural. The whole world is made for me, and that’s more then what Nietzsche can say about the purpose of man in the world.
Treherne is a man who knows he is living for happiness and that happiness requires an acknowledgment of what one can and can’t do with their senses and, more importantly, how the world touches you. The world brings you to love yourself and others. If you can not stare at a speck of sand longingly- if you cannot appreciate an empty space- if the common air itself brings not a feeling of felicity- you are misunderstanding the existence God created and the nature in which his nature created.
A book that thoroughly disrupts you and awakens new awareness's of life is worthy to keep in you bookshelf.
A book that is your favorite deserves to be displayed in prominent places.
This book is worth so much more, It deserves to be gifted with all its highlights, crease, and stains.
It is a book I would recommend every one to read the first 75 pages of and if you want to read it to the end, it has moved from influential to a favorite, and an author worthy of dinning out with friends at Cheesecake Factory.
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