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my hobbies include watching the trees sway in the wind, drinking warm beverages, walking to places, yearning,

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Teresa, 1647–1652

#teresa of avila #st teresa #saint #bernini #rome #art #sculpture

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One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

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Linda Connor | Orion Nebula, January 21, 1938 (2001)

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Anthony Bourdain at Park Hyatt Tokyo, c. 2008

Been off tumblr for years, and now that I've returned I see all the same girls I followed a decade ago posting. This is truly a preserved comfort place <3

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Carl Jung carved a Latin inscription above the door of his house in Kusnacht, Switzerland: "VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." In English translation, the inscription reads: "Called or not called, the god will be there.”

#carl jung

We’re not conscious of most of these rhythms, except for the rhythm of our breathing or the beating of our hearts. At a different rhythmic time scale are the units of time that we orchestrate for our lives, day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year. Here, we find ritual as one of the most important ways we mark time and give our lives a predictable shape and pulse. While rituals, in particular, provide us with important rhythmic markers, the capacity for ritualization provides us with a very potent general tool for creating and manipulating the tempos of our lives. Rituals offer both the comfort of rhythmic regularity and the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances, enabling us to keep time and stay in sync with the pace of life. With ritual, we can both keep time and keep up with time. - Byung Chul Han

#byung chul han #ritual

"What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust. These are the social practices that hold a community together. They all have a ritual character. They all require a lot of time. Today’s terror of short-termism — which, with fatal consequences, we mistake for freedom — destroys the practices that require time. To combat this terror, we need a very different temporal politics.

Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter in celebration. As temporal structures, rituals arrest time.

Temporal spaces we can enter in celebration do not pass away. Without such temporal structures, time becomes a torrent that tears us apart from each other and away from ourselves."

- Byung-Chul Han

#byung chul han #rituals