The sublime feeling
Feeling insignificant, at awe, inspired, fearful, and respectful towards nature and life
by gabriel and · updated 4d ago
The sublime feeling
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
gabriel added 4d ago
Sublime added 1mo ago
- In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis ) 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.
from Sublime (philosophy)
Sublime added 1mo ago
This dialogue from Runaway
... See more[Phoenix]
Do you know what I hate worst about your world? Anything that is different you try to change. You try to tear it down. You rip the wings off the Phoenix and they turn to stone. And if I don't burn, I will turn to stone.
[Man]
What do you mean burn?
[Phoenix]
If I don't burn I can't go back to my world.
[Man]
I don't wan
gabriel added 4mo ago
Kanye West - Runaway (Full-length Film)
gabriel added 4mo ago
- But even an enormous space can be intimate, insular, confined in its infinitude.
from Faster Times interview by magnoliaelectricco
gabriel added 4mo ago
- When you take a hike and you feel a sense of awe at everything that you're seeing, you're experiencing the sublime. In most of life, this sense of “smallness” is experienced as a humiliation. But the sense of smallness in the presence of the sublime has an oddly uplifting effect.
I love the idea of coming face to face with our cosmic insignificance ... See morefrom Can I ramble for a sec? by Sari Azout
meghna added 5mo ago
Have you ever felt awe and exhilaration while contemplating a vista of jagged, snow-capped mountains? Or been fascinated but also a bit unsettled while beholding a thunderous waterfall such as Niagara? Or felt existentially insignificant but strangely exalted while gazing up at the clear, starry night sky? If so, then you’ve had an experience of wh
... See morefrom At once tiny and huge: what is this feeling we call ‘sublime’? | Aeon Ideas by Sandra Shapshay
Sublime added 5mo ago
On the Sublime:
In the presence of the sublime, we are made to feel desperately small. In most of life, a sense of our smallness is experienced as a humiliation (when it happens, for example, at the hands of a professional enemy or a concierge). But the impression of smallness that unfolds in the presence of the Sublime has an oddly uplifting and pr
... See moresari and added 5mo ago
- Sometimes it's harder, sometimes there are moments where you're like, man, I really wish I could escape this moment and go check Instagram or something, but instead I'm just going to sit here and my kid's crying and dinner's terrible because the kids are just being total jerks and I'm tired and not feeling great and my wife is upset because she's h... See more
from Uncomfortable on Purpose by J.E. Petersen
sari added 5mo ago
