Finding secret paths hidden to the maps: these are the nooks that hide the secrets of your heart - in the forest of life, wonder from the beaten path to find the nook!

I just read that a dove has a remarkable feature: wherever it is, it has the innate longing to return to its master - how much does this illuminate this: that the Holy Spirit descended on Christ like a dove? It's almost as though the Spirit had homesickness: as a mother bird longs to return to her nest.

To be a Christian philosopher: in an art museum with masses suffering from near-sightedness - a bland preoccupation with the only things they are able to see: that which is presented close to the eye. But the philosopher: his farsightedness leads to tripping over obstacles and himself - why?: he is too focused on the art! The true philosopher is not worried by their jeering: for he can't see them - and the masses fret over why the philosopher keeps stumbling - he cannot focus on the things that are close. The study of philosophy leads to a farsightedness: and he is always bottling up the experiences he has there - when alone: he enjoys the fragrance of the experience trapped within in recollection! The soul of a philosopher: a transit warehouse for such mystical bottles!

The camera abstracts the image in the photograph: the philosopher abstracts concepts. A lion and a photograph of a lion: if you rip the photograph, the real lion is left unscathed - the destruction of concepts leaves the world unscathed. The relation between the lion and the photograph might be the relation between the world and concepts: the photograph abstracts the lion - the concept abstracts from the world. Whence comes the concept of a unicorn: if there were no lion, it's photograph would be impossible - yet we have the concept of a unicorn: how does one abstract from that which is not?

A fly hits the windshield: the wipers don't remove the fly but smear it - the philosopher without love.

Imagine a man endlessly praising the seats in a theater during a movie: "Shhh!", we'd say: "Enjoy the movie!" - is this the practical man? Or perhaps the scientist is this: utter fascination with a pixel to the exclusion of the entire screen - if we we're in the theater, wouldn't we find him peculiar? To be in a theater where one is probably mocked for actually watching the movie: the predicament of the philosopher. Or: the blind person who specializes in sight - the predicament of the academic philosopher. Or: the seeing who specialize in blindness - the predicament of the nominal Christian?

Having to go to the bathroom when the doors are locked: the predicament of the unnoticed genius.