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Pushing at the boundaries of your understanding and experience - the will to discover- is the ultimate life-affirming action. For every ounce of despair you feel at the present condition of the world, push a pound harder against the tyranny of your expectations!
>Whoever cannot seek
>the unforeseen sees nothing,
>for the known way
>is an impasse.
-Heraclitus, Fragments
Praise the everlasting question mark, the infinite unknown that keeps us always in motion, forever becoming and never complete!
>Unlike habit, which is carried out in a determinate world, trust is paradoxically exercised in a world of indeterminacy, what James calls the "plastic zone, the transmission belt of the uncertain, the meeting point of the past and the future." It is indeterminacy that makes us need trust, but it is also because we have trust that we take the risk of the indeterminate. The feeling of trust makes experience a field of experimentation. It is therefore the condition for every form of creation.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/appliedimagination/readings/a_philosophy_of_wonder.pdf

Pushing at the boundaries of your understanding and experience - the will to discover- is the ultimate life-affirming action. For every ounce of despair you feel at the present condition of the world, push a pound harder against the tyranny of your expectations!
>Whoever cannot seek
>the unforeseen sees nothing,
>for the known way
>is an impasse.
-Heraclitus, Fragments
Praise the everlasting question mark, the infinite unknown that keeps us always in motion, forever becoming and never complete!
>Unlike habit, which is carried out in a determinate world, trust is paradoxically exercised in a world of indeterminacy, what James calls the "plastic zone, the transmission belt of the uncertain, the meeting point of the past and the future." It is indeterminacy that makes us need trust, but it is also because we have trust that we take the risk of the indeterminate. The feeling of trust makes experience a field of experimentation. It is therefore the condition for every form of creation.