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Tag Archives: mono no aware
Your tranquility is here
It seemed a perfectly reasonable mission—to find a bottle of champagne in Paris. How hard could it be? But circumstance conspired to make it more of a challenge than I could have imagined. For one thing, it was a last … Continue reading
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Tagged champagne, France, French, heart, ice jacket, kiss, love, mono no aware, Montparnasse, Paris, relationships, romance, single, tranquility, travel, Veuve Clicquot
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A dictionary of suffering
Acedia is a state of torpor and indifference that leads to a lack of concern with one’s own condition or status. From the Greek for negligence, it is a kind of apathetic self-neglect. It involves not only the neglect of … Continue reading
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Tagged acedia, Ana Susanj, anomie, Canaan Sadri, Casey Kotas, Daniel Pielucha, dukkha, ennui, impermanence, Iskra Johnson, Jason Cytacki, Kristin Baker, Mal du siècle, melancholia, mono no aware, Motoori Norinaga, Nicolas Balcazar, saudade, Sehnsucht, Seven Deadly Sins, sloth, strain theory, Sturm und Drang, suffering, Sylvia Plath, Talat Darvinoğlu, Trevor Lightsky, weltschmerz
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