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Reading Emerson feels like coming home to a landscape you’ve never visited before but the air smell smells familiar, the tree lines feel nostalgic when the cloud forms similar to how I expect clouds to form when I was younger — and the air feels fresher. But also as if I’ve been here before. Why?

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

he seems to have written from a place of deep attunement (the primary wisdom, in his words). 
the reader tends to recognise that not from memory, but from something much older, maybe if they’ve had a taste of said attunement/stillness themselves

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I haven't read any byung chul han, do you have any recs for a first time reader?

return to ritual absolutely strikes a chord with me - we've deviated too far from where we came from

The very niche-ness of Emerson, and transcendentalism I think is particularly resonant partially due to the fact that I think we’re similar point in history. So of course part of it is me I like the writing, it resonates with me. But I also think it’s the point in time. This need for return to ritual. He describes it as: the invariable mark of wisdom, to see the miraculous in the common. 

And I think we’re so starved for this now, Byung Chul Han writes about the burnout society and the truth about the destruction of rituals. So I don’t know I just think this is coming at the right time, for myself but also for the time that we’re in

Well articulated feeling, not sure either

Emerson encouraged us to live authentically, listen to ourselves, and find beauty and meaning in the simple, natural things. His writing is  — like having a chat with a wise friend who’s helping you figure out your path

That’s how felt reading Wendell Berry. It’s been years; I need to revisit Emerson.

It’s actually wild how some words can tap into memories you didn’t know you had. 

Emerson really speaks to something deep and timeless