Quotes for the Journey: Awe Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education. Matthew Fox

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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     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     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 Aston     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 Patton Thoele     Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.       -William James      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

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

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.       -Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

We must never lose our sense of awe at the magnificence of our planet.       -unattributed

The first act of awe, when a person was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.       -Henryk Skolimowski

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.       -Friedrich Schiller

I stand in awe of my body.       -Henry David Thoreau

"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.      -Michael Goddart

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