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Why chasing fleeting beauty always fails

I spent six hours today trying to capture this perfect light hitting my wall and by the time I set up my camera it was gone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The compulsion to possess ephemeral beauty destroys the very capacity to receive it.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Japanese aesthetics — wabi-sabi mono no aware yugen?”

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