The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The world cannot be fully understood intellectually, but can be embraced through caring for a being.
- In plain terms
- You can't understand the world fully, but you can care for someone in it.
- What can you take from it?
- Embrace the world by caring for a being.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you embrace the world?
- What limits your understanding?
Another view
It assumes emotional embrace substitutes for intellectual understanding.
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