Ecoutez le murmure
De la lune et soleil
A l’aube, ils chantent
‘Accueil, accueil’*
Lemn Sissay

Because we have a basic need for awe wired into our brains and bodies, finding awe is easy if we take a moment and wonder.**
Dacher Keltner

We are creatures made for worship:
From the Old English weorthscipe –
Acknowledging worthiness –
We discover there are many generators of
worthship, or worship:
Nature, music, ideas, athleticism, god:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they reared, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes …
O happy living things! no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware …^

Dacher Keltner provides this question
to guide us:
What is an experience of awe
that you have had,
when you encountered a vast mystery
that transcends your
understanding of the world?**

*Lemn Sissay’s let the light pour in:
Listen to the whisper
of the moon and sun
At dawn, they sing
‘Welcome, welcome’;
**Dacher Keltner’s Awe;
^Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Lewis Hyde’s Common As Air.