How Awe Stops Your Clock

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There is something healthy and reviving to our spirituality about slowing down with silence, rest, and meditation. These practices open us to the mystery of time. They take us deeper into time, making us available to the movements of divine action breaking into time, to the very ways time is enveloped by eternity.

Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life

We experience a new spaciousness—contained in that fifteen minutes is a whole world, and we have protected that world from everything else.

Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time

Keltner became convinced that awe could be a counteragent to these immiserating modern neuroses. Notably, not a single respondent in Berkeley’s 26-culture study cited consumer purchases as the source of their awe-story. In “Awe,” Keltner writes: “Awe occurs in a realm separate from the mundane world of materialism, money, acquisition and status sig... See more

“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way…: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly.”