The sublime feeling
Feeling insignificant, at awe, inspired, fearful, and respectful towards nature and life
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The sublime feeling
Kanye West - Runaway (Full-length Film)
youtube.comBut even an enormous space can be intimate, insular, confined in its infinitude.
magnoliaelectricco • Faster Times interview
I work out of a starbucks in miami a few days a week.
there’s a barista there that knows my order and she keeps giving it to me for free.
it's been like 18 times now.
today I finally asked, “why me?”
she smiled and said “why not... See more
Sari Azoutsubstack.comSometimes 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
J.E. Petersen • Uncomfortable on Purpose
J.E. Petersen on what it feels like to resist the impulse to check your phone
from Eileen Myles:
I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life—not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.
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
I love the idea of coming face to face with our cosmic insignificance... See more
Sari Azout • Can I Ramble for a Sec?
Sari perfectly captures sublime (the feeling)
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
To have fur, to detect fast movements, to be afraid, to breathe underwater, to see in the dark, to carry precious stones, to be aerial, to make silver trails, to drink from the lake, to care for your offspring, to live in song, to play, to create micro crevices on the ground, to know death, to move with the moon, to cure with herbs, to be... See more
