Enhancing Your Loving Lust For Life
Code words for experiments in enhancing your lust for life:
numinous: (adj.) describing an experience that makes you overwhelmed yet fascinated, awed yet attracted—the powerful, personal feeling of being viscerally inspired
ostranenie: (n.) encouraging people to see common things as strange, wild, or unfamiliar; defamiliarizing what is known in order to know it differently or more deeply
smultronställe: (n.) “place of wild strawberries”; a special place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace and relaxation; a personal idyll free from stress or sadness
rasasvada: (n.) the taste of bliss in the absence of all thoughts
firgun: (n.) the act of sharing in or even contributing to someone else’s pleasure or fortune, with a purely generous heart and without jealousy
Mudita: (n.) sympathetic or unselfish joy, or joy in the good fortune of others.
vorfreude : (n.) the joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures
unne (adj.) to be happy on someone else’s behalf.
compersion (n.) an empathetic state of happiness and joy experienced when another individual experiences happiness and joy.
The words and definitions are from https://other-wordly.tumblr.com/
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