Awe Awe is golden. Precious it is. Precious like the golden gold and yet its invaluableness can only by experienced by experiencing it.

Awe is wonder. Awe is when you wonder how. How has this been done ? How has this been established ? And when this 'How' has no answer, you accept the doer to be better than you. Then the desire to emulate is born. Awe takes birth when we look far away beyond knowledge and discover that there lies a whole world ahead us of which we experience yet a very small part. Awe takes birth when we look deep within ourselves and find that there lies a potential yet to be stirred up and of which we use yet a very small part. While the awe for what lies beyond gives us extended sight, the awe for what lies within gives us extended insight.

Pride can shield awe and so can ignorance. Pride and ignorance are son and mother. Sometimes what we encounter is so great that we consider it to be lowly, served by our ignorance. Sometimes what we encounter is grand but in order to not-accept it, we ignore it, served by our pride.

But being awed is a something unimaginable. Firstly, there's a sense of our incapabilty to achieve what we see has been achieved. Secondly, the hope that rises up to reach that state. In some subtle manner, these things rouse us and make us appreciate honestly. The quest born out of awe is selfless, not clouded by the shadows of personal interests, or concealed motives. The mind follows the object of awe, and dwells upon it inspired by awe alone, delving deeper and soaring higher at the same time. It is this selfless quest that gives birth to the art of the artist, the insight of the scientist, the faith of the worshipper, the thought of the philosopher, the inspiration of the warrior, the triumph of the conqueror, the innovation of the inventor, and beauty in the eyes of the beholder.


The biggest source of awe is the creation we are a part of. We take things for granted. Like flowing waters or radiant fires, millions of colors or millions of tastes. Countless states of existance and countless emotions we incur. Be awed watching our inside and being awed again watching what we have outside. Again I say, we take things for granted and say "Ah! This is simply evolution!". But thats just a superficial way of looking at it. Somethings we find very obvious have hidden behind them millions of details and awesome patterns which make them work. Awe is born when we look up and discover a way of nature for the first time, though it had always existed, quiet and passive for our eyes, and yet playing its part, like the millions of stars that twinkle there, whether we watch them or not. That moment of realization inspires the soul, that observance of the beauty is a moment of rarity, and stays with us forever as a source of faith in the world.

The admiration that is yielded starts some subtle vibration in the mind. I don't know about others, atleast I feel so. I feel that vibration going from my head to the toe. Some kind of a mysterious soothing sensation that runs down with immense pleasure when some amount of admiration bears in me. And to inspire more awe, the awesome feeling born out of this awe is awing in itself. Awe is what we feel on finding a common thread binding the seemingly obscure and intermingled ways of nature, when the light of simplicity finds its way through the dark dungeons of doubt and confusion. This is a moment of ecstasy, it surpasses all joys of worldly contentment, and propels us into a quest for the unknown.

These moments of awe, have the power to, and have in the past changed the course of the journey of mankind through time. The moments of awe are ephemeral, and yet the effect is eternal. These moments let us break away from the mundane path of material success and motivate us to embark upon the extraordinary path of real accomplishment. The paths require courage and endurance, and are glorious not just at the end, but throughout the course, unlike the nature of ordinary material success.

Awe is precious and much more than gold. But it is, yes dear, golden.  ¶ 2:52 PM