Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
moving out of the sphere of achievement into the sphere of enjoyment and appreciation and relaxing to the wonder of it all.
Joseph Campbell • The Power of Myth
Without natural science, we may also miss great beauty and understanding. In Unweaving the Rainbow (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998), Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins writes: After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must clo
... See moreAlexander Green • Beyond Wealth
It is uncontainable, he cannot stand it: the comet is only going to rise, and equally dispense its pearly light on love offered and met and refused and mistaken, the law of harmonies unfailingly in operation on the human heart. He hears the ticking of his watch, and music drifting down from Lowlands House: everything that would ever happen had happ
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
“for small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Sasha Sagan • For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
Awe is inspired by two things: beauty and vastness.
Jonathan Safran Foer • We Are the Weather
his underlying goal was to teach people that the universe was a far weirder place than they realized.
Tom Shroder • Acid Test
