BEING IN AWE

As adults, we can easily forget how amazing the world is. We get caught up in work, worry, self-doubts, and fears. Our days can become heavy with responsibility, and we forget to look up and see the beauty of the world around us.

Young children are great models of one key ingredient that fosters lightness and joyful awareness: awe. When you tap onto that childlike wonder of how things work and look, when you are in awe of the totality of creation, you dissolve negativity and stress and replace them with delightful presence.

Practice

With awareness, look at the world around you with new eyes. Find amazement for the little things: the perfect red of a strawberry, the door handle that opens your car, the stapler at work. Let the magnificence that is life fill you up today.

Living a Life of Awareness

~ Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.