greatness
on the pursuit of a calling, destiny, being a conduit for something bigger than yourself
greatness
Once Leonard Cohen read a whole poem on the radio.
The interviewer asked him “What does the poem mean?”
Cohen paused for a long moment - and then read the entire poem again.
Jerry Saltzx.comWhen I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect
- Will Guidara, unreasonable hospitality
In aesthetics, the sublime (from Latin sublīmis 'uplifted, lofty, exalted, etc.; elevated, raised') is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own
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