Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen de Cruz
Wonder and awe lie at the heart of life’s most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions respond to our fundamental need to make sense of ourselves and everything around us, and how they enable us to engage with the world as if we are experiencing it for the first time.
After #ThomasBecket was assassinated in #CanterburyCathedral on 29 Dec 1170, reports of miraculous healing started to circulate within a week, and pilgrim numbers soared. The vibrant colours of the #StainedGlass windows around his shrine may have seemed almost as wondrous to #medieval visitors as the #miracles they depict.
Today is the feast of St #ThomasBecket, assassinated in #CanterburyCathedral#OTD 1170. Reports of miraculous healing started to circulate within a week. The vibrant #StainedGlass windows around his shrine may have seemed almost as wondrous to visiting pilgrims as the #miracles they depict.
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/awe-new-science-everyday-wonder-can-transform-life-bookbite/39871 Dacher Keltner shares 5 key insights from his new book, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life #awe#wonder "You find awe in moral beauty, in nature, and in collective movement. Music and great paintings. The sixth wonder is spirituality. A rather surprising wonder of life is big ideas. Finally, our eighth wonder of life is the beginning of life and its end.
Awe is transformative.
There are wonders of everyday awe all around us.
Amid the horrors of the world, there are fireflies and sunsets and creeks murmuring and whales breaching and moss unfurling. A reminder, not least of all to myself, to cultivate wonder and gratitude.
It's been a hot summer already & we are just getting start. Thought you might appreciate a cool down. Even though it was a long cold winter, just a few minutes of this looks good. Winter in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico.