My adaption of Plato’s Symposium into documentary format.
“Loving and possessing, conquering and consuming-that is his way of knowing.(There is significance in that favorite Scriptural word that calls the carnal act “knowing.”)
I take great enjoyment when I think about the ways in which having passion while doing something provides the greatest result.
When making Coffee or in any form of cooking you desire to taste the best product and when you see the production not as a burden but as a path open to inject creation and personality, that you can learn by way of this to understand what elements cause a good coffee or a bad one, bitter or sweet. How altering the order alone can create a different end product. You are learning, you are a part of the process, when you have passion in your actions, in any pursuit this process is true and it allows you the ability to form the best product just as you’ve learned to form words clearly with age.
Reading an original writing of a writer/philosopher/historic figure(which are all the same) is leagues beyond any textbook which is at best a commentary piece.
(I of course recognize for the Mathematics and Sciences textbooks provide a very different purpose.)
This goes for any subject, of course.
