“To encounter beauty is to experience an opening, widening our emotions’ horizon and lifting us out of the narrow corridors of listlessness. It disarms the mechanisms of indifference and blindness, replacing them with awe, wonder, or a sense of transcendence. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“ )”
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“Imagination is not an escape from reality or a denial of truth, but a realm of transformation, building a mental and emotional structure to resist disturbing external harassment. ( "The umbrella of our imagination")”
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“If we want to reconcile passion with patience, we should treasure endurance, the middle path, allowing weathered engagement with life without burning out or breaking down. Indeed, endurance is a valuable companion. ("The umbrella of our imagination")”
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“Imagination without clarity is fantasy; clarity without imagination is stagnation. Dreaming in the clear sky of our minds makes us live creatively, balancing wonder with wisdom, and inspiration with insight. (“With a dream in the clear sky of her mind”)”
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Tanya’s 2024 Year in Books
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