My Favourite Filosofer.

The mind is a hand, even moreso the heart. They do not passively receive the world like some kind of empty rather. Rather, our souls our prehensile. They reach into the world and grasp it, holding it's hand in all the modes that hands are held: lovingly, fearfully, respectfully. To be bored is not to have a hand on anything. To be bored is to stubbornly place the hands in the pocket an refuse to touch, to reach, to grab, to be seized.There are things that seize beyond our will. We cannot help but be interested. But inter-est is primarily an activity, a cultivation, a choice, the will to love. -AJax