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Durkheim’s
(1912) and Belk et al.’s (1989) view that sacred and profane correspond to opposing and
distinct realms of social life.
(1912) and Belk et al.’s (1989) view that sacred and profane correspond to opposing and
distinct realms of social life.
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To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the... See more
Maria Popova • A Field Guide to Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on How We Find Ourselves
Let go of the performance. The great myth was that you had to earn your aliveness. But you don’t. You never did. You are, in this very moment unfolding.
amber. • the hunger to be everything.
“Plato's answer is: what the pupil gets in the examples is a reminder of the innate knowledge his soul already has - not really learning' at all. Wittgenstein says: what the pupil gets in the examples is just what he gets, but the pupil is a human being, and the pattern is part of human life, and creatures like us - like him - do catch on to such
... See moreI think the relationship between Nietzscheanism, decadent-dandyism, and fascism is profoundly under-theorized. D'Annunzio started out as a Decadent, after all — his first novel, The Child of Pleasure, is basically dandyism-by-numbers. I think the intellectual move goes something like this: to be a dandy is to be a “miniature god,” to use Barbey... See more
The Republic of Letters • An Interview With Tara Isabella Burton
“Gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.”
Maria Popova • Something Deeper Than Hope: Terry Tempest Williams on Our Stays Against Despair
D.H. Lawrence
the way in which spirituality, meaning, purpose, community, and ritual are all divorced both from traditional religious observance and from one another. You might get your sense of meaning from one place and purpose from one place and community from a different place and so on and so forth. This kind of mix-and-match mentality, this... See more