I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.
I want to read philosophers.
I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.