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‘Wonder requires a person not to forget themselves but to feel themselves so acutely that their connectedness to every created thing comes into focus. In sacred awe, we are a part of the story.’ - CA Riley
Steph Sousslofftwitter.comYes I subscribe to Richard Rohr’s daily newsletter. Today I like: ‘Wonder requires a person not to forget themselves but to feel themselves so acutely that their connectedness to every created thing comes into focus. In sacred awe, we are a part of the story.’ - CA Riley
Awe is about our relation to the vast mysteries of life.
Dacher Keltner • Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder
Opening oneself to wonder requires faith. To be vulnerable when confronted with the unknown is frightening. If we do not feel a bit lost when talking about wonder, then we are probably not within its realm. The effects of wonder are unique to the viewer, and the artist can merely offer a proposition and hope that it becomes a provocation. In doing
... See moreResonance, while open to mystery, is never abstract but rather always concrete. Reading that poem, watching that movie, looking over that mountain vista, laughing and playing with that four-year-old. Such experiences are full. You feel a resonance between yourself and the world, a felt relationship that reverberates at the frequency of the good.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
When the eyes are wonder-filled, the universe is wonder-filled.