Iman Mohamed
@iman
storyteller, strategist, lover of rest and play
Iman Mohamed
practicerestinleisure.substack.com
The jovial spirit: a positive existential approach inspired by Spanish ...
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why creativity helps us live a good life - even when things aren't good.
Introduction to Roland Barthes's Mythologies: Semiotics Part 2
youtube.comNotes on mythology as semiotics
Self Mythology, Critical Thinking and the Intimacy of Self Acceptance
youtube.comDorris Lessing
This comes down to the difference between Personal Taste and Public Taste. Personal Taste is dependent on something you might not even be totally aware of, an essential relationship, irreplicable but imitable, while Public Taste is an attribute aggregated from social and personal value. Public Taste is what the Recommendation Economy runs on—it... See more
Your Taste Should be Private
and we still talk about taste because that is all we have left
How to ask beautiful questions in the proximity of Rilke and his living questions
the mourning of beauty
By opening our eyes we do not necessarily see what confronts us. We are anxiety-ridden animals. Our minds are continually active, fabricating an anxious, usually self-preoccupied, often falsifying veil which partially conceals the world. Our states of consciousness differ in quality. [. . .] And if quality matters, then anything which alters... See more
Moral Fog and the Appreciation of Value
Iris Murdic notes on beauty
For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays
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Love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality
ove is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality
For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays
ove is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality