Episode 661: Your Life Needs More Awe
Rachel Carson wrote that those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
I have been thinking about that sentence a lot lately.
In this episode I explore what awe actually is, drawing on Dacher Keltner's definition: the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world. And I make the case that awe does not require a mountaintop. It can arrive in an ordinary afternoon, which I illustrate with a deeply personal moment involving old photos of my son and what stopped me cold in that quiet…
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