Solitude and Togetherness
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. David Whyte “There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and
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On Nostalgia
1. Modernity & Nostalgia To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything
On Being
1. "You were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played." In the opening of Tao Ruspoli’s documentary on Heidegger’s philosophy, Being in the World, Ryan Cross, a bass player, tries to
Reimagining Our Relationship to Nature
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. David Whyte When modernity introduced a standard of usefulness as the measure of all things, it severed the connection between nature and those who should be closest to it
Wandering Leads Home
I wanted to go on a great pilgrimage so I sat still for a few hours. Kabir In The Wisdom of Anxiety, Alan Watts explores the “backwards law" or “the law of reversed effort.” This refers to the idea