What Happens When We Wonder?
What does wonder mean to you? Can you share a personal story of a time when you experienced wonder? What helps you stay in wonder in your life?
Wonder is being open to the beauty all around us, in us and in each other.
Wonder is being open to the beauty all around us, in us and in each other. I experience wonder nearly every day because I choose to live in gratitude and in openness to the wonderful in the seemingly small things. I was in Albania last week to facilitate Communications training for staff from 25 country offices for the World Bank. I sat in wonder of: 1. the fact I was even invited to present 2. all the cultures I was able to encounter in such a short time and with such deep enjoyment of the food, music, languages and conversations to learn. 3. the beauty of a sunset over the Adriatic Sea while being treated to a delicious Albanian red wine and mussels and octopus. 4. the joy of new friendships forming. 5. the fact that airplanes can take us across the world in a matter of hours.... the list goes on. What helps me to stay in wonder is gratitude and the realization that the seemingly small things often become my fondest memories of a person or place. <3
A Sense of Wonder connects as you so well shared to all beings and the infinite. There is a phrase in Lakota language, "A Ho Mitakuye O'Yasin". This literally means all my relations. As they believe, no they know we are all related and it is deepening that relationship with all life that we become connected. So yes, wonder, wonder, wonder! Peace, Light and Love Brother Michael
Wonder is Divine.All marvels,miracles and mysteries of the Nature/Universe are great Creations to understand the Divine in all its ramifications.Listen to the Kabir song by Shubha Mudgal "Is Ghat Anter Baugh Bagiche"This is a wonderful personal experience.(Unable to paste the song Utube link ?) . Go within connecting with your InnerNet to find the vast potential wonders inside.
For me, wonder is a sense of awe -- feeling washed over by and caught up in a wave of awe. It's a peak experience. It's a feeling of overwhelmed in a positive way by something much bigger than me. Wonder is a positive and profound experience during which I feel very alive, aware, excited and peaceful all at once. I felt wonder when I learned that my body is made up of a hundred trillion cells all working together while I am simultaneously a cell in a much larger body called the cosmos. I felt wonder one night outside Zion National Park looking out at a huge and beautiful star filled sky. I felt wonder in being present at birth. What helps me stay in wonder is being in the here and now, seeing and appreciating what is rather than being preoccupied, and being aware that all that is, living and not living, is an awesome miracle that I am part of.
What a beautifully written piece, straight flowing out of an insightful heart. With the awareness and experience of wonder, 'self', the source of all our troubles, sufferings, separations, and illusions, fades into the background. In that moment, we are, I am, truly having a taste of what is meant to exist as a pure conciousness.
