February 1st, 2011
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR AWE
Sitting this morning on perfectly manicured grass, looking out over crystal clear still sparkling water, as the sun rose in a majestic cloud tufted sky, I realized how sad is is that we take so much for granted.
Its easy to see our life and say ‘well that’s that’ but the reality is we only ever see a micro fracion of what ‘that’ really is.
The funny thing is most of us know this to be true but DON’T CARE. We are slaves to our senses. And when our sense tell us ‘this is your lot’ we tend to simply shrug our shoulders and agree.
Every morning I try and remind myself, giving the old neural pathways responsible for gratitude and wonder, a little work out, by looking at my mundane and acknowledging the gobsmanking majesty of it all.
The reality, despite our dim perspective is that life and our universe is
Bigger, longer, smaller faster, weirder, higher, hotter, colder, rarer, older, younger, harder, softer, richer and poorer than anything we know or can create ourselves.
Got something rare, old or valuable at home you treat with great respect ??- Trust me it pales into insignificance when you do as little as look at your finger and remember all the iron in the blood pulsing around it is trillions of years old. Was created in stars zillions of miles away, in an event so rare it is almost impossible to compute, traveling incalculable distance in an incredible journey to end up. Plonk – At the end of your boring old finger!!!
We spend so much time yearning for things that we have ascribed false value to, and so little time acknowledging the immeasurable intrinsic value of what we already have.
But like anything else – It takes practice!
ENJOY – You have 24/7 access to the most biologically advanced 3d interactive TV show in the Universe. Don’t forget it.
1 Comment on "12-08 Have you lost your Awe"
I always like to remind myself how awesome it is that we are hurdling through space at unimaginable speed yet everything can be so peaceful and still. Go out early in the morning, when it seems just the birds are up, and it is amazing to have that thought….we are actually hurdling through space. Wow!
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