To philosophize means to remove oneself, not from the things of the everyday world, but from the usual meanings, the accustomed evaluations of these things. And this is not motivated from some decision to think "differently" from the way most people think, but rather for the purpose of seeing everything in a new light. This is just how it is: in the everyday things (not in some separated sphere of an "essential" world, or what have you) to be able to see the deeper visage of the real so that the attention directed to things encountered in everyday experience comes up against what is not so obvious in these things…
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On Rock Hunting and Not Looking for Anything In Particular
If we are going to truly be at leisure, we cannot set out to look for anything in particular and we cannot set out with a desire to acquire, accumulate, or possess.