Inquiry into the Sublime

Sweet Bites for November 29, 2024

Hi all,

Welcome to another edition of Sweet Bites, Mind Candy’s bite-sized newsletter with thought-provoking finds to send you into the weekend with.

Any of the below bites resonate? Hit the reply button and let me know.

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🦉 Wisdom

“Somewhere inside, we hear a voice… Our voice leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become, but it is up to us whether or not to follow. More times than not we are pointed in a predictable, straight-forward, and seemingly positive direction. However, occasionally we are directed down a different path entirely.”

Pat Tillman
Source: Courage is Calling

📚 This Week’s Monday Meditation

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✏️ This Week’s Most Popular Note

📰 Article Worth a Read

100 Years Ago this month we learned our galaxy was not the only one in the universe

One aspect of modern life that we tend to forget in the day-to-day is the fact that we’re living in a single planet in a galaxy filled with other planets surrounded by other galaxies of all different sizes, each with their own suns and stars and (probably) life.

The sheer magnitude of size of the universe is incredible. And yet, we’ve only known this for 100 years.

💡 A 2 Minute Overview of Edmund Burke’s The Sublime

And if you enjoyed that, you may enjoy this slightly expanded overview of Burke’s philosophy by The School of Life.

🧘🏼‍♂️ An Aspect of the Sublime

One aspect of the Sublime is our conscious awareness of it. If we’re not paying attention, then the world around us will never have the impact it could for our own lives.

But what is consciousness? And do we know where it comes from? In the below video, Annaka Harris talks through what consciousness is and what we know about it.

If you enjoy the video and want more, I highly recommend her short book on consciousness, Conscious, which outlines all the cute t competing theories for how it arises in humans and the debate of whether or not consciousness, or a form of it, is within other living organisms.

🎶 Music I Listened to While Writing This Week

Landslide has always been one of my favorite songs, one that to me captures so much of what it means to be alive—pleasure and pain, living and loss, growing and decay.

Every version of the song is unique and original in and of itself but George Krikes’ rendition seems to hit me in ways I’d never experienced.

It reminds me of the emotion of the sublime and being caught in that moment of excitement and terror, how life is constantly moving and yet we’re caught up in the middle of this messy thing we call life.

My brother, Cody DiGerolamo, also released a new single:

🕺🏼 To Experience Awe

A description of what it is like to experience the sublime, awe, and wonder from Dacher Keltner in Awe:

“It begins with vastness-"universe without bounds"-and mystery-"human imagination is lost." What follows is the vanishing of the self—"drop of water" —and the sense of being related to something larger—"immensity of being." And as the default self fades, the mind opens to intellectual questioning and searching that awe inspires ("investigating her works"). Or wonder.”

Until next time,

D.A. DiGerolamo

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