Yūgen

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Yūgen is a Japanese word pertaining to a profound awareness of the universe which evokes feelings that are inexplicably deep and too mysterious for words. The word itself is like an extension of awareness, the aesthetic perception which allows us to conceive of the vastness of the universe- but carries it beyond into an inconceivably mysterious realm. The feeling of Awareness is induced by confrontation to the brevity of life, and yugen is initiated from the awareness that even ‘aware’ itself is an ephemeral thing. Zeami Motokiyo’s description portrays a medium through which one may experience the unspeakably deep, stirring, feeling of yugen; “To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds.”

Nobody tells you how much mental illness fucks with your perception of time. How you can’t place memories right. How you can’t distinguish if something happened a month ago or a year ago. How you lose entire chunks. Weeks, months of memories just get brushed away somewhere. What you do remember just ebbs and flows together. You’re never really in the moment so you can’t ever really hang onto it.

The Maybe (Subject: Tilda Swinton), 1995 by Cornelia Parker

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W.S. Graham

Nayyirah Waheed (via boyoatmeal)

reblog if u a little problematic

THE SAD GHOST CLUB’S GUIDE TO NOT BEING SAD

Little Bunny. Big World. x X-Men

ps. Special thanks to m-arkiplier for inspiring me to create this graphic! (and for his permission to use his post) For more info on why it’s important to be conscious of the metaphors we use, check out this HuffPost article ”10 Reasons to Give Up Ableist Language.”

Remove casual ableism in your everyday lexicon!

My own addition ‘anal retentive’ instead of “OCD”

broken thoughts (via soofyahn)

if you were praised for being smart as a child and now feel crippling sensations of inadequacy when you don’t instantly know how to do something perfectly clap your hands

*clap clap*

*hesitates to clap because I might fuck it up*

Honestly though, if you want to get Freudian up in here, this likely contributes a lot to how I’m fucked up now.

Beginnings of a great trilogy.

(via im-sad-lets-have-sex)

Tegan and Sara at the 2015 Academy Awards.

Perfect.

“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail to notice the sparkle of the place, a scale and a kind of wonder that puts all human endeavors in their proper place.”

— David Carr, The Night of the Gun