Sublime
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As each small surprise leads to another, you’ll soon find the biggest surprise: You learn to trust yourself—in the universe, with the universe, as a unique channel to a higher wisdom.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Pioneering Biologist and Writer Rachel Carson on Wonder, Parenting, and Why It Is More Important to Feel Than to Know
the greatest hindrance to awareness of the divine is our adjustment to conventional notions and mental clichés. Wonder, or radical amazement, he suggests, is a state of maladjustment to words and notions.
Alan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
The arts, which frequently contain the beautiful and the unexpected, are excellent facilitators of wonder. You are struck by something, and this astonishment becomes fertile ground. Wonder snaps you to attention and is one of the most effective ways to spark curiosity.
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
“Humans are amaze. You leave ship.”
Andy Weir • Project Hail Mary: A Novel
Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
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wonder not only transforms how we see the world, it also transforms the person who wonders. As such, it is a transformative emotion. As philosophers such as Wittgenstein, or Asanga in the Yogācāra tradition already noted, if you shift your perspective on the world, you can transform yourself.