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.comHave 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 moreSandra Shapshay • At once tiny and huge: what is this feeling we call ‘sublime’? | Aeon Ideas
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)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Casper David Friedrich
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
Cultivating Awe
Keely Adler and • 48 cards
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