The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left an adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted.*
Virginia Wolff

One of the most important parts of growing up is to see ourselves as we really are instead of assuming we are what our parents and teachers told us we were.
Corita Kent

When people share with me the things
they love to imagine and do,
I have experienced at times a
sense of awe;
It reminds me to mention how you
may find the awesome inside of you
as well as outside.

We will likely wonder where that has
come from, but
when the realisation causes us
to grow in the
goodness of our being and ways,
We can be sure that we have encountered
the awesome:
Awe is the feeling
we have when we encounter the
monumental or immeasurable.
We experience a sudden
shrinking of the self,
yet a rapid expansion of
the soul.^

As Richard Rohr reminded us
a few days ago,
The soul is bigger than us,
Being our connection to every one
and every thing, as
David Whyte alerts us:
If we had very little in
the way of attention for the world,
then we actually had little in the way of
real existence.^^

Let us not be surprised, then, that
in finding the awesome within, we are
propelled outwards into an
astonishing day:
When we shift our mindset and
open ourselves to the awe of
daily life, we may
find opportunities to be
wowed
are all around us.*^

*Dacher Keltner’s Awe;
**Corita Kent and Jan Steward’s Learning By Heart;
^Nick Caves’s The Red Hand Files #157;
^^David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
*^Jonah Paquette’s The Wise Brain Bulletin: Mind Bending Awe.