Favourite Lessons from A Course in Miracles
Somehow, life had enrolled me in an abstract version of A Course in Miracles before I had read the book. Here are some core lessons that I resonate with.
Somehow, life had enrolled me in an abstract version of A Course in Miracles before I had read the book. Here are some core lessons that I resonate with.
Healing humanity is a spiritual endeavour. Yet to look closer at our social traumas, we must get over our reluctance of spirituality in professional settings.
We cannot physically transform the world through landscape design in ten days, but we can change the way we see the world and make place by shifting perception.
In Building, Dwelling, Thinking and The Thing, Heidegger shows how interpretations change our existential relationship with ourselves and the world.
Heidegger addresses what it means to dwell poetically in his essays. The conclusion: we are all capable of being poetic because it is part of being human.
While Romantic science deliberated over nature’s purpose, the existence of souls, and Earth’s creation, Romantic art turned to these subjects for inspiration.
Romantic science was sentimental and subjective and was simultaneously inseparable from and at tensions with religious faith. Art revealed this duality.
This post discusses Burke and Kant’s sublime and shows examples of landscape paintings by Northern European Romantics, the Hudson River School and Luminists.
In Romantic landscape paintings we can find evidence of how science, faith, and the representation of nature shape the way we see landscapes and nature today.