The benefits of forgetting go far beyond facts or even brain cells, and when we relearn something that we've forgotten, we often gain deeper forms of insight.
Echoing the collection title, "Dear Life" takes us back to earlier stories by highlighting the types of cognitive issues raised in "Gravel" and "In Sight of the Lake". Taken together, these three pieces, along with the author's preamble to the finale, invite readers to discern multiple forms of insight and to ponder the deliberate ambiguity of Munro's autobiographical project.
Then in the third act, you reach the contemplative stage where being drunk produces a strange form of insight.
Their clients, who include a growing number of men, are often professional advice-givers themselves, in fields like real estate and investments, and they typically hand over anywhere from $75 to $1,000 an hour for this form of insight.
Finding truth was one of the original goals of yoga, which dates to the Upanishads (Hindu scriptures) between 5000 to 1000 B.C., scholars estimate, with the first yoga-specific Upanishads closer to 500 B.C. Back then, yoga was a spiritual practice intended to lead practitioners to a form of insight.
The use of social media by opposition groups and activists in Syria has allowed those of us who follow these sources carefully to pursue a different form of insight into conflict reporting than had been possible before the time when opposition fighters reflexively videotaped their operations and posted them online.
We spread the good pollen around in the form of insight, methodology and best practices.
To Lefèvre, Dionysius stood for a Pauline and fundamentally Christian form of insight, beyond both positive and negative theology.
Only in this way can one feel confident that retributive intuitions are a form of insight into retributive justice, rather than the crabbed judgments of a squinty soul.
Ultimately, Thinking Literature wants to take art seriously as a way of knowing the world, and to champion literary criticism as a discrete form of insight.
It was already one of the early Schleiermacher's primary goals to turn contemporary culture, and especially the romantic movement, away from the then fashionable idea that art was the highest possible form of insight towards the idea that religion was.
