How to Grow Re-Enchanted With the World: A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout
Enchantment is small wonder magnified through meaning, fascination caught in the web of fable and memory. It relies on small doses of awe, almost homeopathic: those quiet traces of fascination that are found only when we look for them.
Katherine May • Enchantment
the idea of looking for a deeper, more meaningful way of living.
Sharon Blackie • Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
In her book Enchantment, author Katherine May describes disenchantment as a state “we may call by many names — burnout, apathy, alienation — but one that visits upon every life in one form or another, at one time or another, pulsating with the unmet longing for something elemental and ancient, with the yearning to see the world as beautiful again a... See more
A More Play-Full Future: RADAR Future #2
We live in a state of perpetual dissociation from the almost unbearable wonder of being alive. Wonder is always an edge state, its edge so sharp it threatens to rupture the mundane and sever us from what we mistake for reality — the TV, the townhouse, the trauma narrative. If we fell asleep each night remembering “the singularity we once were” and ... See more
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
but rather to reclaim the old potent sense of magic in the everyday, and reclothe it in all the deep, embodied, and grounded wisdom we’ve accrued along the way.
Sharon Blackie • Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
