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Weltschmerz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoc38iMpwfg
Ikigai - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LE5bel_GvU
Wabi Sabi – a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection
Wu Wei
dolce far niente - sweet doing nothing, sweet idleness
dolce vita - a life of heedless pleasure and luxury
dilettante - “Well, I am a dilettante. It’s only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it’s called interdisciplinary research.” ― Brian Eno
rasion d’etre – The greatest challenge to Ms. Powell fulfilling her rasion d’etre is NOT her self imposed responsibility to help her family. https://link.medium.com/Za4e0RG8j9
Non sibi sed patriae - “Not for self, but for country” is the United States Navy motto and English translation for the phrase above. Note: The point is stop thinking about yourself, be part of one. Unity. The way to unity is not to destroy an enemy. It’s to find common ground and allow the dialogue of understanding and action to unity. https://link.medium.com/NkMGBV9hk9
seminal – (of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments.
object d’art - a small decorative or artistic object, typically when regarded as a collectible item.
etymological – relating to the origin and historical development of words and their meanings. Psychotherapists are dealing with people whose distress arise from what may be termed maya, to use the Hindu-Buddhist word whose exact meaning is not merely “illusion” but the entire world-conception of a culture, considered as illusion in the strict etymological sense of a play.
epistemology – the study of knowledge. Fake news is an epistemological crisis
fecund – producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile. Unlike ours, though, this galaxy is particularly fecund. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/why-is-there-a-normal-galaxy-sitting-at-the-edge-of-the-universe
provenance - a record of ownership of a work of art or an antique, used as a guide to authenticity or quality. By utilizing LFA165 and Zanardi04 as the engineers originally intended, these paris enjoy a certain provenance the value of which offsets a mileage deduction.
refulgence - the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light https://www.instagram.com/p/CFukwChHG_y/
Satyagraha - Satyagraha, or holding onto truth, or truth force, is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. Someone who practices satyagraha is a satyagrahi. The term satyagraha was coined and developed by Mahatma Gandhi. https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/opera/?upc=810004201507 ~ @us_x11
pedagogical - related to teaching
proclivity - a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing. Its proclivities are known mostly through lore. Shop Class as Soulcraft
gestalt - German: form, shape; organized whole greater than sum of parts.
apologetic - the discipline of defending religious doctrine through discourse.
egalitarian – principle that all are equal and subject to equal rights and opportunities
simulacrum – a representation of a thing.
per aspera, as astra – Through hardship to the stars.
a prior – relating to or denoting reasoning or knowledge which proceeds from theoretical deduction rather than from observation or experience. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=94YV6Lu009k
kakistocracy – government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
liar’s dividend – https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/22/1015442/cheapfakes-more-political-damage-2020-election-than-deepfakes/
Henosis – Greek, oneness, union, unity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henosis
Oiêsis – false conceptions, self deceptions, illusions. To the Stoics, oiêsis (false conceptions) are responsible for not just disturbances in the soul but for chaotic and dysfunctional lives and operations. Daily Stoic Jan-05
koi no yokan – (n.) lit. “Premonition of Love’; the sense one can have upon first meeting another person that the two of them are going to fall in love. This differs from the idea “love at first sight” in that it does not imply that the feeling of love exists, rather it refers to the knowledge that a future love is inevitable. ~ xtinamarie73 2021-05-18
L’appel du vide – the call of the void
Ukiyo – (n) literally “the floating world”- living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life ~ xtinamarie73 2021-05-17
natsukashii (agj) joyously reflecting on fond memories, not with a wistful longing for the past but with an appreciation of the good times http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200119-a-uniquely-japanese-take-on-nostalgia
Yokocho – alleyway off the main street
izakaya – type of informal Japanese bar that serves alcoholic drinks and snacks. Izakaya are casual places for after-work drinking, similar to a British or Irish pub, a Spanish tapas bar, or an American saloon or tavern.
Kokoro – “the heart of things” see https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762476.Kokoro
Kintsugi – golden joinery
Hemiola – 3:2 ratio, containing 1 and a half or half as much again https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiola ~ see GEB, also https://medium.com/@sez/a-spotify-companion-to-gödel-escher-bach-ecb643887c2d; think of LFA unusual 2, 3, 5 symmetry (2x5 spoke wheels, 3x5 spoke wheels, 2x5 engine, 3 exhaust); see also http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
acatalepsy – the impossibility to comprehend the universe entirely, think of simulating the whole system within a subsystem, think Godel, https://www.instagram.com/reel/CRqxxqopBRX/?utm_medium=copy_link
fernweh – [feirn-vay] • German (n.) an ache for distant places; missing places you’ve never been. “Craving for travel”
Hiraeth – n. (Welsh) A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them It is in the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and it is everywhere.
Gnosis – transcendental knowledge (https://alanwatts.org/3-3-9-on-gk-chesterton/?highlight=Gnosis). feminine Greek noun which means “knowledge” or “awareness.”[8] It is often used for personal knowledge compared with intellectual knowledge (εἴδειν eídein), as with the French connaître compared with savoir, the Spanish conocer compared with saber, the Italian conoscere compared with sapere, the German kennen rather than wissen, or the Modern Greek γνωρίζω compared with ξέρω. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis
Hygge (Danish) – a characteristic of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being
Fika (Swedish) - a break in the day for coffee or something sweet, expressly for the purpose of setting aside a moment for quality time
Pied-à-terre – “foot on the ground”, a small living unit (e.g. apartment) usually located in a large city some distance away from a primary residence.
Logos – ~ Marcus Aurelius Meditations 27. “To live with the gods.” And to do that is to show them that your soul accepts what it is given and does what the spirit requires—the spirit God gave each of us to lead and guide us, a fragment of himself. Which is our mind, our logos. / SEE ALSO: https://writingfor.online/post/ethos-pathos-logos-meaning-and-examples/
Dendrophile - A person who loves trees, as in Dendrophilia (paraphilia)
Mudita – ”joy simply for someone else’s joy” https://youtu.be/3Ujx3Ez7dW8?t=3323 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudita; THINK: Freudenfreude (vs. schadenfreude); SEE ALSO: compersion
Paresthesia – sensation of the skin (tingling, pricking, chilling, burning, numbness) with no apparent physical cause (or perhaps because you see and are vibing with a peacock or reach a meditative state)
Lotus-eaters – those who spend their time indulging in pleasure and luxury rather than dealing with practical concerns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus-eaters
Edify – To instruct especially as as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement.
Yutori – Spaciousness… leaving early to get somewhere such that when you arrive you have time to look around. https://www.instagram.com/p/C0PXhfvoB47/?igsh=MXA4djUyMTZuNnJpMA==
abstemious – sober, one who avoids doing too much of something enjoyable such as eating or drinking
mono no aware - awareness of impermanence or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness or wistfulness at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.