This is specifically for NYC people. In Ridgewood Queens there is a hole in the wall high quality chocolate shop. Itās run by an eccentric and amazing man named Constantine and his wife. He will talk your ear off for a half an hour about āthe benefitsā of chocolate and how itās a panacea for pretty much everything. How big chocolate gives away most of the cocoa butter to the cosmetic industry. Heāll also talk to you about how he asks ChatGPT about chocolate and itās wrong a lot of the time. Youāll then buy a bar even though itās small and $10. But you will go home and have a little piece after dinner and never taste chocolate the same way againā¦
in famed platonist iris murdochās essay on god and good she says that ego prevents us from recognizing that another person is as real as oneself. attention turned outward toward others without interference from the ego allows us to liberate our souls from fantasy and attend to a reality in the illuminating light of transcendent Goodness
