People Who Prefer To Be Alone Are Total Badasses, Recent Study Shows. Our society is built on stereotypes, some incredibly accurate while others fall horribly short. One that is widely accepted is that those who choose to spend their time on their own, the introverts of the world a shy, meek and somehow ‘weaker’, but new evidence is proving this wrong! Introverts of the world, this world can be incredibly difficult to navigate at times. Why? We live in a world that tries to force the notion that everyone needs to find someone else to share their lives with, a partner, in order to find true happiness. Right from childhood, with the assistance of the traditional fairy-tales, we teach our children that for every princess, there is a prince charming waiting somewhere to whisk her off her feet and ride off into the sunset together. Not only does this introduce the idea that women are unable to stand independently, a point that definitely bothers modern-day feminists, but it plants the seed that happiness can’t be found alone.
Mongolia. Winter in the Sun. Self Defense. Cool stuff. 50+ Listening. Finding our mythic ground - SHARON BLACKIE. This article originally appeared on the Garrison Institute blog. We think we make them up, the myths, stories and dreams which so richly define the human imagination. But what if they have an existence that’s independent of us? What if they come to us as psychopomps – a beautiful old word of Greek origins which means ‘soul guide’? How then do we learn to listen to them, to see them, and work with them? It might seem like a radical idea, but it’s one with a long history. These ideas didn’t arise in the twentieth century, though: they’re found across cultures, over long stretches of time.
The mundus imaginalis is the place that all spiritual and transcendent experience comes from. But over the centuries, this old knowledge – this older and very much wilder mythology – has been deliberately overwritten. Stories and myths really are key to this very necessary transformation, because humans are storytelling animals, for sure. Becoming Elder Archives - SHARON BLACKIE. I’m 57 years old going on 58, and I keep waiting for my hair to turn grey. It refuses. Instead, the red in it which I always loved has simply faded to duller and darker. The same thing has happened to everyone on my father’s side of the family with my... Facebook. Life goals. □ - The Mind Unleashed.
Knowmads. Music. Poland. Radio. Sweden. Travel. 11 Beautiful Japanese Words That Don't Exist In English. Once, when I asked my friend from a small tribe in Burma how they would say “breakfast” there, she told me that they didn’t have a word for it because they only ate twice a day--lunch and dinner. I happen to have a lot of friends who speak English as their second language and that made me realize that a language has a lot to do with its culture’s uniqueness. Because of that, there are some untranslatable words. In Japanese culture, people have a lot of appreciation towards nature and it is very important to be polite towards others. That politeness and the nature appreciation reflected on to its language and created some beautiful words that are not translatable to English. SEE ALSO: 20 Things Everyone Who Leaves Japan Misses いただきます Itadakimasu "Itadakimasu" means “I will have this.”
おつかれさま Otsukaresama "Otsukaresama" means “you’re tired.” 木漏れ日 Komorebi "Komorebi" refers to the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees. 木枯らし Kogarashi 物の哀れ Mononoaware 森林浴 Shinrinyoku 幽玄 Yuugen.