DAY 227

First Dream

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz · 1692
Primero sueño
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

How far can the flight of the human soul reach in its quest for knowledge beyond physical limits?

📝ONGO's Reflection

When I first read this majestic philosophical poem, I was utterly overwhelmed by the depiction of a soul that leaves the sleeping body and soars toward the truths of the cosmos. Sor Juana's insight lies in how she proved, even within the confining walls of a seventeenth-century convent, just how fierce and great the human hunger for intellectual curiosity and knowledge can be. Through this poem, forever questioning and craving light in the darkness of night, you will recover a pure passion for learning.

— ONGO · Curator
"The soul, free from the body's heavy chains... dared to scale the heights of understanding."
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, First Dream
"세계의 모든 지식을 담기에 내 영혼은 비록 작으나, 그 갈망만큼은 우주보다 광활하다."

🌱Apply It Today

Break free entirely from work results, practical aims, or unavoidable obligation. Pick a book or a field of knowledge entirely new that sparks your pure intellectual curiosity, and take time to explore it deeply.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

天生緣分
Made in Heaven, Met on Earth
천생연분 · destined bond
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