The sublime feeling

Some Personal News: I am writing a third book! HOW TO BE MOVED is about those moments when art, culture, and sensory experience change our lives and remake our senses of self, what goes into them and how we can have more of them. Announcement & more info below https://t.co/lSWkWvL6se

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... See more

But even an enormous space can be intimate, insular, confined in its infinitude.

We notice in the world today a global plague of restlessness-a search for meaning, for something to believe in. We are all increasingly self-absorbed and made miserable by this, but we don't understand why or how to get out of this trap. The Sublime is an experience that lifts us out of ourselves, that confronts us with ultimate mysteries (like... See more

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 more