Something I can't fathom is how our field of vision somehow stops at the edges of our peripheral vision, yet nothing is outside of it. It just ends there, just like a life ends with nothing coming after it. A finite screen with no borders. It’s impossible to understand yet we see it every time we open our eyes.
Art is the least judgemental way to view the universe. The universe is naturally art, but we sometimes disturb this by creating big flat concrete surfaces, big boring box-shaped trucks and big suburbs with equal houses and equal spacing between the houses, and so on.
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Boredom isn’t a lack of things to do. Boredom is itself a thing you do. And if you stop doing it you’ll realize you don’t need to do things to be at peace, because peace lies underneath boredom. I’d still rather do things in life than just meditate myself into the empty spiritual realm, but it’s good to know that you always have access to a place where boredom, restlessness, jealousy, chasing and longing don’t exist.
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To me the power of philosophy is being able to create your own definition of truth, knowledge and reality, creating ideas out of this, believing in these ideas and then living by them, and by that changing your life and possibly also the world, without any money, resources, contacts or allowance from authorities being mixed in. Just by using your own head.
Philosophy is an act, a practice, not an academic study. If philosophy to you is to read and talk about what has been philosophized about before, or read or talk about what others have said about what has been philosophized before, then you're watching philosophy, not doing philosophy.
What I like the most is how you're allowed to sidestep science and just not believe in quantum physics or special relativity (or any other science that has such high status that they pretty much are facts in our society). That you're always allowed to come up with your own stuff and start talking about what will happen at the end of the universe.
Discovering philosophy is discovering that you can create your own science, your own knowledge, your own worldview.