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“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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“Beauty and art pull reality out of concealment, drawing us away from routine and predictability, breaking patterns and shaking our habitual perceptions. They don’t soothe but confirm reality and reconfigure it. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“ )”
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“If mutual threads are hopelessly entangled in our abstract world, we must return to our lived experiences, recover a deep sense of meaning, and navigate the tension between feeling right and individuality. (“After Bowling Alone”)”
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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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“Beauty can transform the fragments of a lost heart into poetry, reconstruct it spiritually, and reimagine brokenness into a new reality. Just as in Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery by embracing its breaks rather than attempting to conceal them, we celebrate its history and acclaim its imperfections. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“)”
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Ray’s 2025 Year in Books
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