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Glimmers of Wonder
We are witnessing not the natural end of a great human civilization, but the birth of an inhuman civilization that could never have been born without a vast, immense, universal sterilization of the highest values of life.
— George Bernanos
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Men want to fly, but they fear the void. They cannot live without certainties. That’s why they exchange flying for cages. Cages are where people can live in certainty.
‘The Karamazov Brothers’, Fyodor Dostoyesvski
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We are all born happy. On the way our life gets dirty, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy. It is quiet, calm, gentle, it is an inner state of satisfaction that starts with loving yourself.
— “The Japanese Lover” Isabel Allende
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Brutal physical desire is easy. But desire at the same time as tenderness takes time. You have to cross the whole region of love before you find the name of desire.
— Breviary of Human Dignity, Albert Camus
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I recently learned about a term called a glimmer. It’s essentially the opposite of trigger.
Glimmers are those micro moments in your day that make you feel joy, happiness, peace, or…
