Re-Enchantment:

"Learn to love things, not control them

Lots of people are talking about “enchantment” recently: how we lost it, the consequences of losing it, how we might re-enchant our world again.

But precisely what enchantment means is hard to pin down. To many, it is the idea that the world we inhabit is not fully explainable by us. That our world is inherently meaningful, and so too our participation in it.

Put another way, it is not simply that the nearby forest may play host to mysterious forces or creatures, but that your own journey through the trees is participating in some greater story that you cannot fully know.

For J.R.R. Tolkien, enchantment could be identified as something more specific: something approximating the feeling of un-possessive love or wonder. I’ve personally found learning to cultivate this perspective to be incredibly useful."