1 Things that exist only because of the mind
Glass and Mirror | A Cup of Tea and a Sip of Cigarette
A cold mirror and a cup of hot tea

2. Sensations that exist in the mind
Rejection | Direction | Darkness | Light | Depth and Distance | Afterimage | Optical Illusion | Sweet
Fragrance | Lightness | Insulator of the Heart | Cold and Hot | Trap

3 Emotions 〈 Mood 〈 Feeling

4 The Origins of Emotions
Fear | Guilt

5 Small Differences Lead to Totally Different Conclusions
Important: Precious | Happiness: Joy | Wish: Hope
Peaceful: Comfortable | Miserable: Miserable: Desolate
Sincerity: Sincerity | Sympathy: Compassion | Gentle: Subtle | Congratulations: Blessing
Pleasant: Refreshing: Lighthearted: Exhilarating

6 Tears, our most precious genie
Sad: sorrowful, sad, sorrowful, pathetic, sorrowful, regretful, regretful…
Compassion: pitiful, sympathetic, pitiful, pitiful…
Anger: wrath, resentment, resentment, resentment, indignation, humiliation, anger, rage, sorrow…
Emotion: moved, impressed, deeply moved, ecstatic…

7 The Edges of the Word 'Lonely'
Lonely ｜ Forlorn ｜ Bored ｜ Free ｜ Empty
Emptiness | Silence | Deprivation | Hunger | Peace

8 Should I approach, wait, or watch?

9 About 'liking'
Respect | Admiration | Admiration and enthusiasm | Advocacy | Like | Fall in love
Be fascinated | Cherish | Charm | Repay | Trust

10 Get a tattoo on your heart
Hand | Voice | Back view | Body odor

11 Lies
Words, for myself ｜ Lies, for you

12 bonds
Joke ｜ Worry ｜ Sympathy ｜ Exhibition of Wounds ｜ Secret ｜ Joke ｜ Listening

13 Love, a Report on That Irresistible Waste

14 Hearts like two sides of a coin
Expectation | Truth | Attention | The power of loneliness, like strong coffee
Jealousy is perhaps ｜ The refreshing feeling of betrayal
Even if anxiety eats away at the soul ｜ Murder ｜ Understanding ｜ Love and faith
Morality and Devotion ｜ And yet…

15 Real and Fake
Selfishness: Narcissism | Expression: Eyes | Pride: Self-esteem

16. Caressing the Abandoned Words
Facts and Truth | Innocence and Purity | Honesty and Honesty
Jealousy and envy | Rebellion and resistance | Goodness and goodness | Hypocrisy and hypocrisy

17 Group, Justice, Witch Hunt
18 Like martyrdom
Fear | Love | Parents and Children | Poetry

19 Like a stray cat rummaging through a trash can, I rummaged through the trash can that says 'I love you'
The first time you say 'I love you' ｜ When the words 'I love you' are repeated two, three times...
The words 'I love you' at the end

20 The ability to break up
Refreshing ｜ Remaining regrets ｜ Reminiscing ｜ Arriving
Conquer | Panic of the Mind | Oblivion

21 Flying through the deep night
22 Cruel Morning
23 The Seven Colors of Indifference
Warm indifference ｜ Generous indifference ｜ Selfish indifference ｜ Unique indifference
Tactical indifference | Indifference that is indifference | You are too petty to be indifference

24 Hours, a Grace to a Frail World
Teenagers | Twenties | Thirties | Forties

25 How was your trip?
26 Your other hand and my this hand

aperture
Find your heart

A Dictionary of the "Heart" with Tens of Thousand Colors
─300 words of joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, five desires, and desires help you find the thread of your heart.
The human body is one, but the gestures and colors of the mind are not one.
There are tens of thousands of gestures, and the colors of the heart are innumerable.
Because we are alive, the body and mind of a person who is always moving are as changeable as flowing water and wind.
It changes every moment, so it is impossible to capture every moment.
Among the body and mind, the mind is especially difficult to read.
Because the body can be seen and touched, but the mind is difficult to do so.
Because of this, people worry, struggle, and have a hard time because they do not know their own hearts or the hearts of others.
No wonder they say, “You can know the depth of ten feet of water, but you cannot know the heart of a one-foot person.”
So then, is the mind something that is completely unknowable?
no.
Just as there is visible light that can be seen with the eyes and infrared and ultraviolet rays that can be felt with the body, there are colors in the mind that can be seen, heard, and felt with the mind's body.
Of course, putting the different colors of the mind into words is a problem of a different dimension.
This is because we must describe what we see, hear, and feel with our mental body, not our physical body.
It is a daunting task for anyone to accomplish in a day, two days, a year or two.

At first, I collected over seven hundred words of my heart and wrote them down in a notebook.
If I were to write down all the words with subtle differences, it would easily exceed a thousand.
This project began with amazement at how many words could describe the heart, but now I've arrived at the realization that, compared to the knots of the heart, the words that describe it are woefully inadequate. (From the "Preface")

Poet Kim So-yeon, who has been “underlining and annotating every single word related to the heart” for over a decade, uses her efforts to thoroughly examine and unfold the words of the heart in “Dictionary of the Heart” and reveals the incalculable colors of the heart.
This book, which was originally a 'dictionary' about the 'mind', contains 1) twenty-six chapters that can be opened and read at any time, 2) a bonus chapter called 'Gap', and 3) over 300 words.
Although the author said, “Compared to the knots of the mind, the words that refer to the mind are too few,” he makes us carefully look at the joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, hate, and desire that form the basis of the mind, and the words and things surrounding them.
This book is for those who are always curious about their own hearts and minds, and provides them with clues to tens of thousands of possible answers.

Delicately capturing the nuances of the mind
A special dictionary filled with the poet's sensibility and intuition.
Anyone who has tried to discern the colors of their heart has probably at least once looked into the difference between 'lonely' and 'desolate'.
In the Standard Korean Dictionary, 'lonely' is defined as "being alone or feeling lonely because you have nowhere to rely on," and 'lonely' is defined as "lonely and lonely."
If we follow this interpretation, it is impossible to tell at a glance what the difference is between 'lonely' and 'forlorn'.
Lonely → lonely → desolate → lonely → lonely… … .
Because it cannot escape circular definition.
1) 『Dictionary of the Mind』 boldly shakes off the limitations of general dictionaries, namely circular definitions, linguistic definitions, and even universal definitions.

The word 'lonely' is not an adjective.
It is an action verb that moves actively.
When people can't stand the empty state of their hearts, they look for the word 'lonely'.
And ignite it.
Those words contain an energy that is already moving, unable to do anything about loneliness.
That energy transforms the state of loneliness into an action verb. (Page 91, “Lonely”)

Compared to the word 'lonely', 'loneliness' is more focused on the scenery outside the mind than inside the mind.
To be precise, it is a reaction to the relationship between the mind and the external world.
If loneliness looks around, then solitude looks around.
When we look around the scenery surrounding our hearts, and are affected by that low temperature, our hearts' temperature drops, and that is "loneliness." (Page 92, "Loneliness")

It is a completely different method from the Standard Korean Dictionary.
The author measures the color of the mind through emotion and intuition, not through linguistic, scientific, or psychoanalytical methods.
It is a unique approach that discards the universalist perspective and does not go through the dry, woven web of ideas and theories.
In one way, this resembles the poet's method of constructing a complete world and a meticulous logic while deviating from the general order and logic of the world.
2) And this book deals in detail with the subtle differences in related words such as 'happiness-joy' and 'innocence-purity' in many parts.
Just looking at the three pieces in Chapter 23, “The Seven Colors of Indifference,” “Warm Indifference,” “Heartwarming Indifference,” and “Selfish Indifference,” makes us realize how different the nuances of each “indifference” are and how important it is to capture the nuances.
This is a vivid example of how the colors of the mind can appear similar and thus be easily confused, and how a delicate approach is needed to not miss the subtle differences.