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Realising the becoming
I am able to sense that I am in the becoming. My days are starting to look quite similar to the one I have always envisioned. I feel limitless being in this knowing. Almost like its supposed to be a secret that I shouldnt be acknowledging. I still feel like I should be wanting something else? Like going for a social party
... See moreWhen the moment evokes a more intense, nostalgic sadness, connected with autumn and the vanishing away of the world, it is called aware.e And when the vision is the sudden perception of something mysterious and strange, hinting at an unknown never to be discovered, the mood is called yugen.f These extremely untranslatable Japanese words denote the
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
Melancholy is a solitary pleasure and something I’ve been drawn to for as long as I remember. Certainly, it’s in my novels which are all, to some degree, romantic comedies about sadness and loss, a feature of the long walks, too, the reason why I don’t mind trudging through drizzle along the verge of a B-road or sitting in empty cafes on grey
... See moreJoe Lightfoot • The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets
In Zoë Heller’s novel “Notes on a Scandal,” the narrator—Barbara Covett, a connoisseur of the condition—distinguishes between passing loneliness and something deeper. Most people, she observes, think back to a bad breakup and imagine that they understand what it means to be alone. But, she continues, “about the drip, drip of long-haul,
... See moreTransience also opens the way to melancholy: a rich aspect of our experience that offers up a peculiar form of beauty. Melancholy is caught up with the passing of time, nostalgia, and a knowledge that all things must end. The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek cites melancholy as the starting point of philosophy: without disappointment we would
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