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Awe



Awe is the feeling of wonder and fear or reverence. It is often cited in religious or spiritual experiences along with feeling small or inconsequential in the face of a larger, more inspiring power, most commonly in encountering the scope and power of nature or natural forces.

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FindCenterBeauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

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FindCenterThe human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books.

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FindCenterIf we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

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FindCenterShe would consider each day a miracle—which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

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FindCenterFor me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it’s enough that there are trees in the world.

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FindCenterI don’t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

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FindCenterFor me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time.

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