☆ sonder ☆

n. the realization that each passerby is living a life as vivid and as complex as yours - populated with their own friends, ambitions, routines, worries, and inherited craziness - an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know / noticed existed, in which you might only appear once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

☆ kairos ☆

n. the perfect, delicate, crucial moment. the fleeting rightness of time and place that creates the opportune for action, words or movement. also: weather.

☆ mono no aware ☆

n. (JAP phr.) a sensitivity, an awareness or responsiveness towards something: having a 'pathos for things' and a gentle wistfulness at the transience of things, with a delicate sense of sadness and grief for the passing of reality and ephemerality

☆ laissez-faire ☆

n. (FRE phr.) the policy of leaving things to their own course, without interfering

jun 20 2013 ∞
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