Quotes About Awe

If there is no awe, there is no audience.

as you look up at these towering mound-people

The Master said, "If a man of position [junzi] does not have integrity, he will not inspire awe.

Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing...

Wow, said Bianca.

wind itself is in terror of it and the world cannot

Although we may wish for it, true magic is a scary thing.

The stars shone down on her like flowers made of light, and their beauty hurt her weary heart.

Her beauty took one's breath away, like a sudden pain.

Dan tiba-tiba, aku menyadari dengan begitu jelas betapa kecilnya kita ini dibandingkan dengan lautan alam semesta. Seperti serangga yang sombong! Seperti amoeba yang sok! -Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

I find nothing in the Gospel of Thomas that contradicts any of Jesus's teachings in the canonical gospels. Rather, it rounds them out metaphysically and creates a newfound sense of awe as we see just how original and subtle his understanding really is. He is the first truly integral teacher to appear on this planet. As we take a fresh look at these teachings at once familiar and strange, we're catapulted forward again along a path that rings with the power of truth.

There is a sixth sense . . . that is the sense of wonder.

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

She was slightly afraid—deeply moved and religious. That was her best state. He was impotent against it.

Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.

We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany.

Simply being in a context of awe leads to a "small self." We can quiet that nagging voice of the interfering neurotic simply by locating ourselves in contexts of more awe.

What most commonly led people around the world to feel awe? Nature? Spiritual practice? Listening to music? In fact, it was other people's courage, kindness, strength, or overcoming.

Around the world, we are most likely to feel awe when moved by moral beauty, the first wonder of life in our taxonomy.

amazing," said Rachel. She reached

The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness, it is seen not as wonderful but as something that can be explained as a dyadic system.

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.