AWE

Awe is the emotion we experience when we encounter vast mysteries that we don’t understand. Why would I recommend that you find happiness in an emotion that is so fleeting and evanescent? A feeling so elusive that it resists simple description? That requires the unexpected and moves us toward mystery and the unknown rather than what is certain and easy. Because we can find awe anywhere. Because doing so doesn’t require money or the burning of fossil fuels- or even much time…….Because we have a basic need for awe wired into our brains and bodies….. if we take a moment and wonder.” From “Awe” – Dacher Keltner.