# Art Journal ## My First Thoughts Two books have entered by mind as somehow relevant: [The Spiritual Life](https://amzn.eu/d/5uQncUd) by [[1996 Henri Nouwen]] and [Pointing Out the Great Way](https://amzn.eu/d/iMj41f1) by [[2022 Daniel Brown]]. So the idé is that there is an awakened desire for spirituality grounded in actual practice. Yet I am not christian, I am not buddist. The sense was, that it's not up to me to decide conviction, rather I have to learn the language of those that live in my city. And also [[1831 Georg Hegel]] was some sort of Christian, yet he had studied texts outside of Europe. ## Quick Reflections This connects to my listening to [[John Vervarke]] talking on [Why Reason needs Spirit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8i-j6TciSk). You got stuck with the event of the revolution of information systems so you haven't cought up with the process. I think we get get a god concept via negativa. We can thus argue that the root of Civilisation as project is Zoroasterian. Yet more popular vocabularies are that of Christianity, Buddhism and Islam. I mean not to say that philosophy as a project is in some sense equal to that of religions and their histories.