Tastes of magic
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There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be,... See more
Kasra • Tastes of magic
Elena and added
"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be... See more
Stuart Evans and added
when we are born, we experience reality with very few “priors” – preexisting beliefs, expectations, conceptual schemas through which to filter what we see. And so a child’s experience is an endless explosion of vividness. Slowly we start to make sense of the world, we start to notice repeating patterns, we start to establish boundaries between “me”... See more
Kasra • Tastes of magic
Elena and added
All children live in a world rich with surprises. Each new thing, no matter how ordinary, inspires a sense of wonder and delight. But novelty naturally declines with age, and our surroundings begin to dull with familiarity.
Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness
Lael Johnson and added
can’t explain. It makes you feel, if even for a moment, something that you can’t feel anywhere else. And for me, magic became a new life.
Ian Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
Like nibbling on a magic mushroom, turning an art eye on reality makes you feel as if the world is performing just for you.
Bianca Bosker • Get the Picture
Debbie Foster added
Having lost that original identity of the ordinary and the special, we typically give up on the ordinary and look to new special experiences to compensate for our loss. Although what we’ve lost is the most ordinary thing in the world, we go looking for something special to replace it. And thus, by pursuing the special, we are, in effect, forever co
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