Things Everyone Goes Through

Answer Before You Ask

Answer With A Question

Are Better When Shared

Become Less Useful Once Explained

Become More Valuable When Shared

Burn Like Ash

Burn Like Salt

Burn Like Static

Burn Like Wine

Dissolve On Contact

Drop Without Warning

Explain Too Much

Fold Back On Themselves

Happen Only In Your Head

Make A Day Feel Shorter

Nod Before They Finish

Occupy Attention

Resist Being Counted

Resist Interpretation

Rewrite The Room

Ring Like Chlorine

Ring Like Dust

Ring Like Iron

Ring Like Static

Ring Like Vinegar

Ring Like Water

Sing From The Deep

Smell Like Ash

Smell Like Metal

Smell Like Smoke

Smell Like Stone

Smell Like Wine

Sound Like Echo

Sound Like Paper

Sound Like Rope

Stick Like Silence

Stick Like Static

Survive Translation

Swallow The Light

Take Attention Without Asking

Taste Like Copper

Taste Like Glue

Taste Like Paper

Taste Like Sugar

Taste Like Winter

Weigh Like Dust

Weigh Like Rain

Weigh Like Wine

Weigh Like Winter

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is a capacity that is lost in the modern mind because of its obsession with 'knowledge' and its consequent inability to look into the mysterious and the miraculous.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows. (Osho)

is a feeling which is best not claimed, but silently observed for the artistry moving through as they occur around one.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent. (Rumi)

is a mode of being whereby we are capable of perceiving our openness (to the world which manifests itself to me) as an extraordinary mystery.

Unable to immerse myself in the everyday activities of the world, I am able to notice that I am open to the world and that, in this openness, the world manifests itself to me. This suspension of content when 'our concernful awaiting finds nothing in terms of which it might be able to understand itself' (BT: 393) is the state of consciousness that allows me to become aware of my awareness, for when beings and the activities of everyday life no longer have any hold on my consciousness, I then come face to face with my 'naked self' in its ''Being'', and thus become aware of my openness or awareness, which is always already there, but which I normally ignore. According to Heidegger, the most appropriate mode of being ''aware of awareness'' is when we are in the state of 'wonder', as this enables us to perceive our openness, or ability to be aware, as an extraordinary mystery.

is a sign that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed. (Sidney Jourard)

is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.

Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

is among the most important things that distinguish people from other animals, as well as intelligent people from morons.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons. Alan Watts

is, as in childhood wonder, that thing which artist and poets try to recapture and recreate.

Artist and poets try to recapture and recreate the wonder that we all remember feeling as children. Maybe that's why we are called visionary. (Marney Ward)

is not a pollyanna stance or a denial of reality, but an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to transform.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality... wonder is an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to transform. (Christina Baldwin)

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