finding awe in the ordinary

Dr. Keltner wrote that people who find awe all around them, “are more open to new ideas. To what is unknown. To what language can’t describe.”

Awe, she believes, is “the absence of self-preoccupation.”

Researchers speculated that the experience of awe might increase participants’ sense of time-availability, which might in turn lead people to act more generously with their time, and enhance overall well-being.

One of the most reliable ways to experience awe, Dr. Keltner found, was in the simple act of witnessing the goodness of others