you need to decide to live beautifully this year: beauty as moral practice
i chat about beauty as practice of attention, easy beauty vs difficult beauty, beauty as an accessible place for moral good, and why beauty is not a luxury but a necessity 🍡 You can sign up to Klook today using the link https://www.klook.com/en-US/ and you can use my code NINAMONTAGNE for a discount on your trip today. Thank you so much to Klook for partnering with me on this trip in Japan! Join the book club! https://ninamontagne.substack.com/ 0:00 beauty as discipline 5:05 a falsifying veil 9:38 the practice of unselfing 13:59 difficult beauty 19:59 a daily practice 23:32 the forces are not kind 26:38 you must strive for beauty Easy Beauty Chloe Cooper Jones The Sovereignty of Good Iris Murdoch On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry Woodcut bird illustration by artist Reynolds Stone Artists: Georgia O'Keefe Aaron Douglas Alexander Calder Alma Thomas Katsushika Hokusai Podcasts: https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odo... https://onbeing.org/programs/david-wh...
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life opens up when you take your pleasure seriously 🌷
the disappearance of rituals and the exhaustion of constantly becoming
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a journaling practice to find meaning in a world of pure chaos :)
we cannot live constant joy ; and we shouldn’t aspire to
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escaping the algorithm: how to make your time feel habitable again
the importance of a reading, writing and thinking practice to feel intellectually alive
When I Accept Myself Just As I Am, I Change
you need to belong to yourself 🎐 feeling lost and getting your spark back, brain rot (get offline)
love and desire are doors to the unknown 🌀 ecstatic truth, punctum, fire of love
bring ugliness back to the movies ❤️
this is what a crisis looks like on women’s bodies
How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED
i promise you just need to go make something!! | late diagnosis, self-trust and uncertainty
ways to feel creative again in a capitalistic hellscape :)
How Life Changes When You Realize the Rules are Made Up
How to use writing/reading/thinking as a way to find joy, meaning, and purpose.
