The sublime feeling
Feeling insignificant, at awe, inspired, fearful, and respectful towards nature and life
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The sublime feeling
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
J.E. Petersen • Uncomfortable on Purpose
J.E. Petersen on what it feels like to resist the impulse to check your phone
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
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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
sublimeinternet.substack.com • Can I Ramble for a Sec?
Sari perfectly captures sublime (the feeling)
But even an enormous space can be intimate, insular, confined in its infinitude.
magnoliaelectricco • Faster Times interview
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 e... See more
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Casper David Friedrich
This dialogue from Runaway
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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
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.