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☯ The Dao of Jung: 3 ways an Ancient Chinese philosophy influenced the West's greatest psychologist. Read it here.

🤯 Mind-bending paintings by Canadian Surrealist: Rob Gonsalves is beloved for his ability to create dreamlike worlds where the impossible feels tangible. See them here.

🕸️ Thoughts of a spiderweb: Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head. Read it here.

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“Our Sun has its home within the Milky Way's Orion Arm, only about 1,000 light-years from the California Nebula. Also known as NGC 1499, the classic emission nebula is around 100 light-years long. On the featured image, the most prominent glow of the California Nebula is the red light characteristic of hydrogen atoms recombining with long lost electrons, stripped away (ionized) by energetic starlight. The star most likely providing the energetic starlight that ionizes much of the nebular gas is the bright, hot, bluish Xi Persei just to the right of the nebula. A regular target for astrophotographers, the California Nebula can be spotted with a wide-field telescope under a dark sky toward the constellation of Perseus, not far from the Pleiades.”

💗 The Unnamed Legacy

We can keep climbing our entire lives trying to "make something of ourselves" to "make our lives matter."

To create a “legacy” which often means no more than seeking the applause you’ll never hear from people you’ve never met, all clapping for a caricature of who you are and not the real thing.

Do not worry if your name is remembered.

Instead, be concerned with acting as a force of love so strong that your children's children's children will still swim in that same reservoir of nourishment.

Because your time on earth will have left an impression on those you leave behind.

And they will carry with them your subtle ways of being that invite kindness, compassion, and care.

As the years pass, the origin of such warmth will be lost on them, but love will still permeate the room.

And that is what matters.

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⚠️ Wise Warnings

Digest this wisdom from Rudyard Kipling:

Pairs well with this sentiment from Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

🤓 Learn This Word

Yutori means having room to spare, not being cramped. Room to breathe. Rest. At its core, yutori translates to "spaciousness", and the concept extends beyond physical space, encompassing mental and emotional space as well.

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The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Dig for the “Submerged Sunrise of Wonder”

“There is a myth we live with, the myth of finding the meaning of life — as if meaning were an undiscovered law of physics. But unlike the laws of physics — which predate us and will postdate us and made us — meaning only exists in this brief interlude of consciousness between chaos and chaos, the interlude we call life. When you die — when these organized atoms that shimmer with fascination and feeling — disband into disorder to become unfeeling stardust once more, everything that filled your particular mind and its rosary of days with meaning will be gone too. From its particular vantage point, there will be no more meaning, for the point itself will have dissolved — there will only be other humans left, making meaning of their own lives, including any meaning they might make of the residue of yours.

These are the thoughts coursing through this temporary constellation of consciousness as I pause at the lush mid-June dandelion at the foot of the hill on my morning run — the dandelion, now a fiesta of green where a season ago the small sun of its bloom had been, then the ethereal orb of its seeds, now long dispersed; the dandelion, existing for no better reason than do I, than do you — and no worse — by the same laws of physics beyond meaning: these clauses of exquisite precision punctuated by chance.

And yet, somehow, against the staggering cosmic odds otherwise, we get to experience this sky, these trees, these colors, these loves we live. The recognition of this unbidden miracle of chance is the fundamental matter of meaning — the great awakening from the myth.”

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