beauty will save us

“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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“While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity.”

Ben Cauchi, Burning Hand

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“There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe. The horizontal threads are in space. The vertical threads are in time. At every crossing of the threads, there is an individual, and every individual is a crystal bead. And every crystal bead reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the net, but also every other reflection throughout the entire universe.” — Rig Veda

Inuit map of the spirit realm on seal hide.

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"The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent" - Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton

“Guide to Mountains“ by | Kelvin Yuen

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Magic, then in its most primordial sense, is the experience of existing in a world made up of multiple intelligences, the intuition that every form that one perceives—from the swallow swooping overhead to the fly on a blade of grass, and indeed the blade of grass itself—is an experiencing form, an entity with its own predilections and sensations, albeit sensations that are different from our very own.

- David Abram