Heroism permeates ordinary life, in repetitions far smaller and weirder than the flow of the seasons and the years.*
Ian Bogost

I do believe in the materiality of the mind, but I confess that I am still mystified by the nature of consciousness.**
Alan Lightman

Another word for selfless moments?
Heroism?
I’d like to take all of the consciousness
that I have, and be more
present,
Using it less to worry about yesterday
or tomorrow, and more to
enjoy the beauty all around me, to
read and doodle, to
be with people and
do them some good, to
bring beauty and harmony to those in
stress and discord,
Rather than being the source of
the latter to them:
The source of all art
is the human psyche’s primal need for
the resolution of stress and discord through
beauty and harmony.^

*Ian Bogost’s Play Anything;
**Alan Lightman’s The Transcendent Brain;
^Robert McKee‘s newsletter: The World Is Ready For Your Story.