{"id":1479,"date":"2023-03-05T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-salve-for-the-sense-of-existential-meaninglessness-and-burnout-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:11:32","slug":"a-salve-for-the-sense-of-existential-meaninglessness-and-burnout-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-salve-for-the-sense-of-existential-meaninglessness-and-burnout-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are seasons of being when a cloak of meaninglessness seems to slip over you, over everything, muffling the song of life. It is not depression exactly, though the two conditions make eager bedfellows. Rather, it is a great hollowing that empties you of that vital force necessary for moving through the world wonder-smitten by reality, that glint of gladness at the mundane miracle of existence. A disenchantment we may call by many names \u2014 burnout, apathy, alienation \u2014 but one that visits upon every life in one form or another, at one time or another, pulsating with the unmet longing for something elemental and ancient, with the yearning to see the world as beautiful again and feel its magic, to find sanctuary<\/a> in it, to contact that \u201csubmerged sunrise of wonder.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Katherine May<\/strong> explores what it takes to shed the cloak of meaninglessness and recover the sparkle of vitality in Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 a shimmering chronicle of her own quest for \u201ca better way to walk through this life,\u201d a way that grants us \u201cthe ability to sense magic in the everyday, to channel it through our minds and bodies, to be sustained by it.\u201d <\/p>\n

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