Believing landscapes to be mysterious aggregations, it becomes ...
Deep terrain offers up multiplicity, forked paths, symbolic meaning. It schools you in compromise, in shifting interpretation. It will mute your rationality and make you believe in magic. It removes time from the clock face and reveals the greater truth of its operation, its circularity and its vastness
Maria Popova • How to Grow Re-Enchanted With the World: A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout
When we try to force nature into the boxes of culture, we lose the breathing room where boredom, awe, and contemplation take place. In mystery, we don’t need to feel like everything is functional or productive. Mystery makes life feel less like a self-improvement project and more like a chance to be inspired. When we define things with premature... See more
I believe that welcoming subjectivity into our lives opens the doors to seeing the unseen. Subjectivity offers us a way of seeing from different angles and myriad perspectives. It fuels an examination of a nascent point of view and helps bring clarity to the amorphous, fuzzy concepts and questions we grapple with. It is only when we experiment and
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