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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
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bookshelves: 2023, bio-memoir, nonfiction, sabbath, sacred, school, 5-stars, wordy, brain, thinky
Jul 01, 2023
bookshelves: 2023, bio-memoir, nonfiction, sabbath, sacred, school, 5-stars, wordy, brain, thinky
many blessings on zena hitz.
i have too many things to say about her book.
at some point, this review would sound like
hitz paid me to gush.
that is not the case.
rather, hitz book hit me
at the prophetically ideal time
and she presented arguments
answering questions i'm asking / praying
in real time:
mainly, what does it mean
to possess the kind of inner life and leisure
that leads to a "quiet mind".
stack hitz up alongside alan jacobs
and tish harrison warren and jenny odell
and eugene peterson
for writers who've shaped that very
inner life and "quiet mind" for me.
hitz' book is indispensable.
i have too many things to say about her book.
at some point, this review would sound like
hitz paid me to gush.
that is not the case.
rather, hitz book hit me
at the prophetically ideal time
and she presented arguments
answering questions i'm asking / praying
in real time:
mainly, what does it mean
to possess the kind of inner life and leisure
that leads to a "quiet mind".
stack hitz up alongside alan jacobs
and tish harrison warren and jenny odell
and eugene peterson
for writers who've shaped that very
inner life and "quiet mind" for me.
hitz' book is indispensable.
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Reading Progress
June 24, 2023
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2023
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bio-memoir
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nonfiction
June 25, 2023
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sabbath
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sacred
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school
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"Solitude alone does not make an inner life. Preoccupation alone does not make an inner life. The quality of an inner life is marked by fascinated devotion to the depths of a thing--to search relentlessly for sheer joy and love of the search. Utility be damned. We are created--head, heart, soul, body--for more than utility. Therefore, our intellectual life opens possibilities (even a refuge) far greater than utility."
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113
June 29, 2023
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Finished Reading
July 1, 2023
– Shelved as:
5-stars
July 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
wordy
October 9, 2023
– Shelved as:
brain
December 23, 2023
– Shelved as:
thinky
