“The artist is a seer, a becomer,” wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychiatrist Félix Guattari in their 1996 book, What Is Philosophy.
I thought of this quote the other day, when a student of mine asked me, “What are you: a meditator or a philosopher?”
I’m not sure whether there is—or has to be—a difference, I told her, “I’m a philosopher who meditates. I guess like a carpenter, schoolteacher or football player sometimes does that, too.”
“So to philosophize is, in a way, to meditate,” she said.
“Yes.”
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FINN JANNING 