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If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
L. M. Sacasastheconvivialsociety.substack.com“If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”
Alex Dobrenko • The Bucket Theory of Creativity
It seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
Cultivating enchantment is not about avoiding pain or upset or achieving an unchanging, constantly inspired state. It’s about loving the world when it hurts. Living in a constant state of oblivious bliss is not enchantment, it’s profound mis-attunement with ourselves and the world. Loving the world means being willing to be heartbroken by the world... See more
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
The Witch is not all hubble hubble toil and trouble. Sometimes what’s in play is a subtle shift in perception, a newfound openness to experience, and enchantment in the more-than-human world
Jonathan Rowson • Witch Envy
“to hone sensory receptivity to the marvelous specificity of things.” I would argue that this is another way of talking about learning to pay a certain kind of attention to the world. In so doing we may find, as Andrew Wyeth once commented about a work of Albrecht Dürer’s, that “the mundane, observed, became the romantic”— or, the enchanted.
L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
