Maybe you’re like a physicist who uncovered an uncanny correlation between an equation and an ancient philosophy. An athlete who recognized that the same strategies that win matches also apply to navigating real life. An artist who experiences hypnagogic flashes a swirl of faces, colors, music, and places that the waking mind couldn’t comprehend, or a neuroscientist who noticed that the brain doesn’t simply react to nature it remembers it. Forests, mountains, oceans… they don’t just soothe the mind, they speak to it in a language older than thought. A walker who takes the long way home without deciding to discover something unexpected. A painter who traced light on a paper and it felt like it healed something you have been carrying for quite a long time…..(Read more)
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