“By reading and considering the past, we cut through the thick, strong vines that bind our attention to the things of the moment.

Our attention thereby becomes more free.”

—Alan Jacobs, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind (NYC: Penguin, 2020), 49.

Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs

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