“those books are sacred to me remember I talked about synchronous as a an inexhaustible fount of intelligibility this reciprocal opening with the world I read Plato it transforms me I go out and see things in the world I hadn't seen I live that way and then that feeds back into me and transforms me and then I read the text as a transformed person and I see things I hadn't seen before that opens me up I now go out into and that just keeps happening and it's been happening since I first read the republic since I first read this Symposium I read platinus is a need on the nature of beauty or on the nature of one and contemplation on dialect any of these greater needs”
John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation | The Tim Ferriss Show · The Tim Ferriss Show