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The
first act of awe, when a person was
struck
with the beauty or wonder of
Nature,
was the first spiritual experience.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations
of the divine,
to sense in small things the beginning of
infinite significance,
to sense the ultimate in the common and
the simple, to feel
in the rush of the passing the stillness
of the eternal.
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Watch for glimpses of the divine order.
Find those experiences,
sights, and sounds which fill you with
awe. Any experience
met with awe can be spiritual:
a safari through an animal
kingdom, taking in a sunset, a hike
to an awesome mountaintop.
Susan Santucci |
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The most beautiful thing we
can experience is
the
mysterious. It is the source
of all true art and all
science.
They to whom this emotion
is a stranger, who can
no
longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
are as
good as dead:
their eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
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I am mentally preparing myself for the
five-year-old mind.
I want to come down to their physical
limitations
and up to their sense of wonder and awe.
Shinichi Suzuki |
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We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude
and humility for
our present progress and prosperity. We
should be filled with
awe and joy at what lies over the
horizon. And we should be
filled with absolute determination
to make the most of it.
Bill Clinton |
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a
philosopher is bound
in his or her way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables.
Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Thomas Aquinas |
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Religious
awe is the same organic thrill which
we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
William
James |
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Think
with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
Friedrich
Schiller |
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Mountains
inspire awe in any human
person who has a soul. They
remind us of our frailty, our
unimportance, of the briefness
of our
span upon this earth. They
touch the heavens, and sail
serenely
at an
altitude beyond even the
imaginings of a mere mortal.
Elizabeth
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I
stand in awe of my body.
Henry
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Awe
is the beginning of wisdom.
Awe is the beginning of education.
Matthew
Fox |
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| "Awe" is just a word to
denote a quality of spirituality that cannot be
described. It's a noble emotion of wonder.
It's having your mind blown while getting a glimmer of
the unfathomableness of God. It's getting an
understanding of who you are, individually and in the
larger scheme of things. It's catching a ray of
knowing the answer to where you come from and where
you are going. Getting closer to the answers of
these questions is receiving a peek of how exalted
things are. And it's a promise of what can come.
If you believe that you feel awe, even if you're
not really sure, just concentrate on it. Awe is
an evolving feeling that becomes more profound and
more full of wonder as your spirituality becomes
focused and mature. The answers, as inarticulate
as they may be, grow with the gathering of your
spirituality. For now, feel awe if you have any
deepening convictions about your spirituality.
These convictions may be that you can come to know
yourself, that there is an eternal power that is the
All-Knowing Creative Power, that you've had an inkling
that you can come to know God. Whatever
convictions come now, love them, and when you ponder
these questions, let yourself move with the awe.
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I
was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a
while. Did that mean
awesome things had disappeared from my life? No.
What it did mean was
that I'd gotten too caught up in distractions and mind mucking
to recognize
anything as awe-inspiring. . . . I hadn't been paying
attention to the beauty around me.
Sue
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We must never lose our
sense of awe at the magnificence of our planet.
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