You may or may not have heard this one before:
Open a random Wikipedia article and click the first link in the body.
Repeat with the next article.
Keep doing that and you usually (always?) end up at the article for Philosophy.
That’s not so surprising. The intro paragraph to an article chunks up to a higher category.
They define tigers as a type of feline and The Who as a rock band.
Define what each of those is an example of, then do that again, and the road ends with philosophy.
The ultimate abstraction.
You follow reason to its end and you get to philosophy – the study of reason.
And you follow Truth, Beauty, Goodness, power and morality to their source, you get to the King of Kings.
That’s why it pays to put the material to one side and focus on the transcendent.
Yeah, okay, you need to eat and stay warm.
But if that’s all you do, things will get away from you.
So transcend: