Summary: The myth of Artemis and Actaeon shows that seeing or exposing too much can destroy a person and a moment. Our culture of constant display and quick attention strips away depth and the ability to contemplate. Keeping some things hidden preserves wonder, beauty, and the sacred.
Not everything can be looked at and leave you as whole as you were before. Seeing too much can shred you into pieces. A showy culture without privacy loses the ability to contemplate. (View Highlight)
As Carl Jung said, “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” (View Highlight)
Contemplation isn’t measured by time or the amount of given information, but by stillness. This is also why contemplation is the process of recognizing beauty. Beauty, in its old sense, was never just veneer or a matter of good breeding. Beauty is a momentary happening of a glint of truth surfacing in the material world. It’s not a phenomenon we create to amuse ourselves, but a moment of something divine making itself perceivable to human eyes. (View Highlight)
“Beauty is not caused, it is,” said Emily Dickinson. (View Highlight)