Transcending the Transcendent
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I am sitting here in my office listening to Trio Sonatas from Handel and Corelli and looking out from the top of the hill in Fredericton at, well the entire city of Fredericton. There is something about this style and era of music which allows me to transcend the moment. It brings a smile and certain lightness which I can find in few other places. It brings a certain significance to the silence of the trees swaying outside and the bug-like cars and people moving four stories below. It is transcendence, but one that allows a closeness to the mundane that we usually shield ourselves from. It offers a perspective different from that within my mind. No doubt it is thoughtfully contemplative and reflective, like almost everything else I do as a philosophy student, but it is also profoundly peaceful. It delves to the heart of what really matters, and interestingly though unsurprisingly it brings me to the wind, the trees, the cars and the people; it brings me to peace.
