Are you Alive?

You are stardust

I’ve never been so alive

Creature

Creation

Creative

Beauty is the output. Taste is the filter. Aliveness is the engine.

But if something makes you feel alive, you'll notice its beauty. The aliveness opens your aperture. Suddenly the light is different, the texture matters, the mundane becomes compelling.

So beauty is downstream of aliveness. It's what you perceive when you're present. But presence isn't guaranteed by beauty.

Aliveness isn't a state. It's a signal.

It's not something you achieve or maintain. It's something you notice. A kind of feedback from your nervous system that says: "This. More of this."

Not "how to feel good," but "how to feel."