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Yugen
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Yugen

Yugen is a subjective emotional experience in which a person glimpses something of their place in the immensity of a larger reality that is vast beyond words, whether that reality is in the wider cosmos, the depth of time, or something within themselves.

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Friluftsliv
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Friluftsliv

Friluftsliv is a Norwegian word for the feeling of rightness we get when we’re able to escape the architecture of civilized life. It’s an emotion associated with an expansive, unconstructed experience of time and space.

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