The Elegance of Silence

by Myriam :)

Yūgen (幽玄) in Japanese is a feeling… but not an easy one.

It’s what you feel in front of something deep, mysterious, something you can’t explain. Not a striking or obvious kind of beauty. But a soft emotion, almost like a shiver rising inside you without warning.

People often talk about yūgen when they see a light passing through the leaves, or a poem that touches the soul for no clear reason.

It’s a kind of beauty that doesn’t try to be seen it shows itself to those who know how to look. Not with the eyes, but with something deeper inside.

What I love about Yūgen is that nothing is forced.

There’s no message to “understand,” no rules to follow. Just a free feeling. In a world that always asks for explanations and visible results, Yūgen reminds us that it’s okay to simply feel, without analyzing.

What we don’t fully understand… might be even more precious.

Maybe that’s what we call the elegance of silence.

Letting space for the intuition, for what quietly moves through us. And maybe that’s when we feel most alive.

The Dirty Roots spheres give me that kind of unclear feeling, somewhere between earth and sky.

A kind of mineral vibration, almost sacred.

They don’t try to please, to shine, or to convince.

And the more I look at them, the more I feel.

That, I think, is Yūgen:

Not beauty that catches the eye,

but beauty that wakes something inside, without making a sound.

What if we stopped trying to understand everything?

What if we let ourselves be touched

By a sphere.

By a word.

By a light.

By what we can’t explain… but we know is true.