Quotes about Wonder

Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky
I wonder if
Someone in the heavens looking back down on me
I'll never know
So much space to believe

While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost.  I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.  Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.

Together, let us watch in wonder the magic of the morning sun shining through a green leaf.

In a heart-centered life -- acquiring more things, more status and more recognition lose significance, while beauty as given, wonder as given, wisdom as given and laughter as given greatly gain significance.

My job [as a writer] is to awaken in the reader his or her own sense of wonder.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

"The problem with science is you have a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."

I wondered much, stumbled upon truth. Dipping whole self in life cocktail.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed than to not know and always wonder...

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Who you are is this "motion of seeing" that is looking through your eyes right now. When you stop at and as this "motion of aliveness" - by consciously refocusing your attention to this seer; by coming to being deeply at rest at and as this one that is the "you" that you can never get away from; by no longer furthering out from this "you" and into the attempt to try and be something that is notyou; you are immediately freed from who you think you are in every given moment of this realization.

True happiness is completely causeless; it is not reliant on a thing; it is its own reward, its own pleasure. It is immutable and immovable even as it is constantly changing and forever increasing in its movement into its own manifestation.

Your true home is in being deeply at rest at and as the heart of existence itself, the "you" that you truly are and have always been.  The heart is totally free of everything even as it contains everything, sustains everything and is flowing through everything - without any paradox or contradiction to any of it.

As you learn to leave alone the activity of unconsciously trying to be the mindbody that you think that you are - the mindbody that this "you" is currently flowing through - and you learn to move as this one that you truly are - this "you" of you; the very heart of existence - steadily, consciously and momentarily, the continuity of the ever deepening of this innermost as it keeps on entering its manifestation, through this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through, allows you to simply bubble in the sheer joy, pleasure, peace, delightfulness and stillness that this "you" of you is.

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?