That called DESIRE 🎞️ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“WHY DO WE SMILE? WHY DO WE LAUGH? WHY DO we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach CALLED DESIRE?"
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

[@be_your_colors]

I think I rarely read an introduction to a book that touched me as much as this one did. It were exactly questions like that I asked myself when I was a young and confused teen. I was always more serious than the other kids and there were things they just didn’t understand. When I was seventeen life was tough for me, at least more tough than for other people my age. I asked myself questions they wouldn’t ask themselves for decades and I had to ask those questions because life and my personal experiences kind of forced me to.

[@duke_pham]

"One summer night, I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke."

[@pursuit_dharma]

“The problem with my life was that it was someone else’s idea.”
“I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. ”