The love of truth. One has to see it to believe it, to know what it really is like. The love of truth is not what we believe it is when we start the process of thought and dialogue. The ordinary intellect alone cannot really love truth. It can be "interested" in truth, but what it really loves and serves is usually something else, something not so beautiful in us. As Socrates shows through the genius of Plato's art, the love of truth can appear only when it has to be paid for inwardly, only when one comes upon the resistance of one's "own" entrenched opinions. When one comes upon this resistance and still presses on, abandoning the attachment to one's own thoughts, an inner action is taking place which Socrates presents as a foretaste of "dying."
Jacob Needleman "Why Can't We Be Good?"
People are not actually taught why or how things should be appreciated, but simply are told to appreciate something and to learn things by heart about it only because it’s believed to be famous and popular around other people. What a sad world we are living in… LAPSANG!! Lets take time and learn to appreciate things for what they really are.
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