awe

We all have moments of feeling awe-struck. That feeling, when one sees an amazing sight, perhaps a majestic mountain, or perhaps looking out across a rainforest, or seeing a dramatic coastline; we have moments when words are clearly not adequate and the mind falls silent. Our thoughts are silenced by the grandeur of nature. And this feeling of awe is a beautiful feeling. Of course, we feel somehow small in such moments but actually it is a relief to be thus diminished.

That feeling of amazement at what is – amazement at the extent and variety of existence – that feeling the lucky ones have come to know well. For it does not need to be something vast and huge, like the Grand Canyon, for this feeling of awe to arise within one. For the lucky ones, even a blade of grass is awesome. The enlightened ones have reached such a state of simplicity of mind that the very ordinary things in life once more create a feeling of amazement within them. It is like returning to one’s early childhood, when everything in the world was unknown, a mystery to be explored, and everything was exciting. This is the way that the enlightened ones perceive the world, with a deep feeling of awe flooding their being at the sight of a leaf, in a grain of sand, in a piece of paper blowing down the street. Everything is felt with this same feeling of wonder, of surprise, of excitement; and the feeling that one is witnessing something immensely beautiful, creation happening before our very eyes.

So come to this space in yourself, this space of a childlike innocence, seeing the world anew and being filled with awe.