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Mental Needs
We are talking about wonder. What is wonder, my friends? A sense of awe. A state between knowing and not knowing. Finding something to question and explore. An expectation of delight about discovery. All of these are true. The needs of the body are readily at hand for us to consider. The consequences of ignoring…
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Filter Of Institution
When I travel, I see people in other countries with wonder on their faces, but in America most people look jaded. Do Americans tend to stifle wonder? Americans as individuals do not stifle wonder, but the society does. Institutions create frameworks for our life experience, and heaven forbid we reject even the least significant institution.…
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Wonder In Action
The way of the sage is simple, and every culture across the world has had it’s own understanding of this. The sage does no great thing, and yet nothing is left undone. This is wonder in action. What makes a shaman a shaman is not that they live in an otherworld that their tribe does…
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Wonder Is Magic
Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result? Insanity is a sane response to an insane situation, but the situation was insane because there was no wonder. We have a quote on our calendar right now from a Native American chieftain. “It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s…
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Wonder’s Companion Sword
I will draw from Miyamoto Musashi’s work for a bit here. The Book of Five Rings. The Book of Five Rings is about swords and the use of the sword, and it is also about life and the use of the soul. Specifically, the use we call wonder. Wonder is the sword. It can take…
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Accept Connection
Those who will accept no connection will show power with nothing. Those who will embrace no definitions will recognize the worth of no other thing and fail to recognize what any other person has to offer. “Know yourself.” Yes, and in knowing yourself you will know others as well, and possibly better than they know…
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Walk With Both Feet
I think it would be helpful to talk a bit about affinities. The things we have rapport with, then wrap up on wonder. You want an example of an affinity? Yes. A personal one. You know your affinity by the people or things you have rapport with. Interactive 3D art, like Second Life. Literature. Art…
Category: Wonder
Wonder is the default state of mind. It’s the childs mind or the beginners mind. Losing wonder, we lose perspective. We lose touch with reality. Wonder isn’t some clean and sanitized thing suitable only for ivory tower philosophers. It’s terrible in both it’s beauty and it’s ugliness. In it’s morbid moments as well as it’s inspiring heights.
With the sword of wonder you can wonder in all directions and your world can become very clear, but you need something else in order to move forward in your life. The companion sword is affinity. We know our affinity when we experience rapport with a situation. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened unto you. You seek with your wonder. You knock with your affinity.
“From wonder into wonder existence opens.” Lao Tzu (Chinese taoist Philosopher. 600 BC-531 BC)
“Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.” Charles de Lint (Celtic folk musician and story teller, b.1951)
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge” Abraham Joshua Heschel (Polish born American Educator, Writer, Philosopher and Theologian of Judaism, 1907-1972)