“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of [our] desire to understand.”
― Neil Armstrong
What do you wish you understood?
Yield
The rules of who yields to whom can get pretty complicated. Buddhism suggests that we should just practice yielding in general, practicing non-attachment to having our way, so that we can accept life as it comes.
What are you learning to yield to?
Inchworm
Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds,
Seems to me
You’d stop and see
How beautiful they are.
—Frank Loesser
What have you slowed down to admire lately?
A Gentle Word
“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
—William Hazlitt
How will you work a miracle today?
Beyond Imagining
There are wonders in the world that are beyond what we can imagine—not because we lack the science to explain them, but because our perspective on the world can never be broad enough to truly take it all in.
What scientific reality simply boggles your mind?