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If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
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
When I use the word enchantment, I mean a bunch of things...
I mean a sense of curiosity, imagination, delight, pleasure, wonder, and awe in the ways we sense ourselves, the world, and what’s possible.
I mean a more deeply embodied sensing of the life, animacies, and worlds around us that colonialism and capitalism seek to flatten and erase.
I mean a... See more
I mean a sense of curiosity, imagination, delight, pleasure, wonder, and awe in the ways we sense ourselves, the world, and what’s possible.
I mean a more deeply embodied sensing of the life, animacies, and worlds around us that colonialism and capitalism seek to flatten and erase.
I mean a... See more
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
There is clarity (and joy) in seeing what others can’t see, in finding grace and harmony in places others overlook. Isn’t that far better than seeing the world as some dark place?
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
What is rare is our will to pursue it. If we wait passively to become enchanted, we could wait a long time.
Katherine May • Enchantment
Our enchantment with the world can coexist with our DIS-enchantment with violent systems and ideologies. Our grief and love for this world and one another can actually disrupt spells that keep us complicit and passive and disempowered. When we become disenchanted with business as usual, we make room for the world and other ways of being in it that ... See more
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
Instead, I simply want to posit one idea for your consideration: Enchantment is just the measure of the quality of our attention.1
In other words, what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this req... See more
In other words, what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this req... See more