Cultivating Awe
Keely Adler and
Cultivating Awe
The tragedy is that as we distance ourselves from the delight of our youth, we become increasingly prone to disillusionment. Wonder and beauty are not precise cures for disillusionment, but they certainly can stave off the despair of it. To reclaim the awe of our child-selves, to allow ourselves to be taken by the beauty of a thing, allows goodness
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If you want to know if you’ve forgotten how to marvel, try staring at something beautiful for five minutes and see where your mind goes.
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Maybe what we need is not an object to be known but a cause of wonder.