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  • Ordinariness

    We have a habit of thinking that the deepest insights, the most mystical, and spiritual insights, are somehow less ordinary than most things - that they are extraordinary.

    In fact, the opposite is true: the most mystical, most religious, most wonderful – these are not less ordinary than most things – they are more ordinary than most things. And it is because they are so ordinary, indeed, that they strike to the core.

    Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
    1. ​​The natural thing to do​​
    • beauty
    • spirit
  • Flight of the soot sprites

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    Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Totoro
    • spirit
  • The ancient fire spirit who lived in the hearth

    The garden is as central to the concept of an Islamic home as the hearth is to the European home. It is interesting, then, that the hearth-fire in old traditions has a similar association with the life of the inhabitants of the house.

    Commonly, the fire of the hearth was not allowed to go out. It was carefully covered with ashes each night at curfew so that a few selected embers would survive until morning. (In fact, the word "curfew" originated from the French word for cover-the-fire—couvre-feu.) Raglan comments that "the alarm and horror felt if the hearth-fire went out are out of all proportion to the inconvenience caused" by the need to relight it.

    Lisa Heschong, Thermal Delight in Architecture
    1. ​​Howl's Moving Castle​​
    • spirit
  • Retained as a quality

    Thermal information is not differentiated in our memory; rather it is retained as a quality, or underlying tone, associated with the whole experience of the place. It contributes to our sense of the particular personality, or spirit, that we identify with that place. In remembering the spirit of a place, we can anticipate that if we return, we will have the same sense of comfort or relaxation as before.

    Lisa Heschong, Thermal Delight in Architecture
    • memory
    • spirit
    • heat
  • Roaming and capricious

    Now I sometimes wonder whether the current of utility has not become too strong and whether there would be sufficient opportunity for a full life if the world were emptied of some of the useless things that give it spiritual significance; in other words, whether our conception of what is useful may not have become too narrow to be adequate to the roaming and capricious possibilities of the human spirit.

    Abraham Flexner, The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
    • function
    • spirit
  • The quality without a name

    There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

    There are words we use to describe this quality:

    alive
    whole
    comfortable
    free
    exact
    egoless
    eternal

    But in spite of every effort to give this quality a name, there is no single name which captures it.

    Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
    1. ​​No words to describe​​
    • beauty
    • life
    • meaning
    • spirit
  • My Neighbor Totoro

    A Film by Hayao Miyazaki
    1. ​​Lights and lamps​​
    2. ​​Flight of the soot sprites​​
    3. ​​Dad's study​​
    • spirit
  • Spirited Away

    A Film by Hayao Miyazaki
    1. ​​The wind's pulling us in​​
    2. ​​False train station​​
    3. ​​The spirits' bath house​​
    4. ​​The boiler room​​
    5. ​​Sea train​​
    • spirit
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender

    A Series
    1. ​​The Legend of Korra​​
    2. ​​Blessed by the four elements​​
    3. ​​A hierarchical system of sense​​
    • spirit
    • elements
  • The Legend of Korra

    A Series
    1. ​​If you look for the light​​
    2. ​​When we hit our lowest point​​
    1. ​​Avatar: The Last Airbender​​
    2. ​​Blessed by the four elements​​
    • spirit
    • elements

See also:
  1. elements
  2. beauty
  3. life
  4. meaning
  5. function
  6. memory
  7. heat
  1. Hayao Miyazaki
  2. Christopher Alexander
  3. Lisa Heschong
  4. Abraham Flexner