Sense Of Wonder Quotes
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“But how can you have a sense of wonder if you鈥檙e prepared for everything?”
― Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
― Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
“There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.”
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“She has always said that talking makes everyone feel better. He says talking is the equivalent of grooming. The tongue and fingers are governed by the same parts of the brain. He marvels at how close they can be some nights on the phone and how words really are the equal of touch. Bakelite pressed hard against his ear.
She says it's not just the freedom from him and from their daughter. I feel some sort of opening. I saw things so clearly today.
He thinks about the solitary figure in every religion, the monks, saints and shamans in every tradition who walk out into wilderness on their own and find revelation.
It's what solitude does to a social animal he says.
People talk of recognizing something greater than themselves when they're alone because we finally have to realize how helpless we are as individuals. There's a freedom, a sense of wonder in feeling for a moment that we don't have to please anyone or adjust to the needs of others. And there's a fear in realizing how small we are, how much those distant others normally insulate us from seeing the limits of our mostly incompetent bodies. When we're on our own we seek solutions and speculate and fictionalize because that's what we do when we're confronted with survival. That's revelation.
Maybe she says, I'm just saying I'd like to eat less meat. We could have fish.”
― A Beautiful Truth
She says it's not just the freedom from him and from their daughter. I feel some sort of opening. I saw things so clearly today.
He thinks about the solitary figure in every religion, the monks, saints and shamans in every tradition who walk out into wilderness on their own and find revelation.
It's what solitude does to a social animal he says.
People talk of recognizing something greater than themselves when they're alone because we finally have to realize how helpless we are as individuals. There's a freedom, a sense of wonder in feeling for a moment that we don't have to please anyone or adjust to the needs of others. And there's a fear in realizing how small we are, how much those distant others normally insulate us from seeing the limits of our mostly incompetent bodies. When we're on our own we seek solutions and speculate and fictionalize because that's what we do when we're confronted with survival. That's revelation.
Maybe she says, I'm just saying I'd like to eat less meat. We could have fish.”
― A Beautiful Truth
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