Ameera JR’s Reviews > Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark > Status Update
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Something happens when you dive into a world where clocks don’t tick and inboxes don’t ping. As your arms circle, swing and pull along the edge of a vast ocean, your mind wanders, and you open yourself to awe, to the experience of seeing something astonishing, unfathomable or greater than yourself. Studies have shown that awe can make us more patient and less irritable, more humble, more curious and creative
— Aug 28, 2025 09:27AM
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As American author Robert Fulghum wrote, ‘If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire — then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience.”
— Aug 28, 2025 09:16AM
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“The sense of being alive but suspended has long encapsulated for me a sense of the quiet sacred, of a kind of patient waiting, of a dark peace in the liminal stretch between the ocean surface and the depths. Where you are alone, but not afraid”
— Aug 28, 2025 09:14AM
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“While freediving, the deeper you go, the more you discard: ‘The trivia of everyday life falls away. And this is what it is for me, the sense that you are just one tiny speck amongst all these other living things on the planet … It’s the smallness of awe: floating under the surface you compress yourself, you are quiet, tiny in an immense body of water”
— Aug 28, 2025 09:11AM
