There’s been a theme for me recently in what I’ve been experiencing recently. A simple word with an infinitely bigger meaning. Awe It is in several books that I’ve read recently - Enchantment by Katherine May, The Hours of the Universe by Ilia Delia, and currently #awe #transformation #healing #darcherkeltner
I have never considered "the effect that intentionally seeking awe has upon life." I've always thought that awe comes to me/us not the other way around. Like Spielberg, I am a theatre director (not movies) and have developed a director's eyes and ears because that calling requires it. I have made so many artistic discoveries watching and listening to actors on stage that can be described as Awe with a capital "A." Not until I read the quoted line above did I contemplate those moments and understand them! I now know why I LOVE directing although I knew it in my heart. Directing feeds me with Awe. What a blessing that is. It sounds like Spielberg realizes directing is a blessing, too. I'm not surprised. He has been one of my favorite movie directors of all time. Only someone who could make "E.T." or "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" knows what its like to look for awe and find it over and over again. Even though I won't be directing theatre anymore, I know how to reach out and find awe and I need to make it a conscious practice. WOW. I hope my aging memory doesn't lose that thought.
When I was a child, I developed a sense of easily finding awe from the need to step outside of the disfunction in family life. The mean spiritedness and dog eat dog environment caused pain and anxiety.
I survived and thrived anyway. I am all grown-up and with gray hair and wrinkles and still everyday find awe. At lunch time, maybe how the cloud formations look that float above the office buildings, or people giving homeless men and women on the street water and food. The moon in all its phases set in the evening sky fills me with awe every evening. Every night before bed I gaze.
I am so grateful that now as a happy healthy adult I still easily find awe everyday.
Terri - thank you for sharing. That is a powerful aspect of awe of how it can help us cope with painful and difficult circumstances. I love how awe has been with you your whole journey.
I have never considered "the effect that intentionally seeking awe has upon life." I've always thought that awe comes to me/us not the other way around. Like Spielberg, I am a theatre director (not movies) and have developed a director's eyes and ears because that calling requires it. I have made so many artistic discoveries watching and listening to actors on stage that can be described as Awe with a capital "A." Not until I read the quoted line above did I contemplate those moments and understand them! I now know why I LOVE directing although I knew it in my heart. Directing feeds me with Awe. What a blessing that is. It sounds like Spielberg realizes directing is a blessing, too. I'm not surprised. He has been one of my favorite movie directors of all time. Only someone who could make "E.T." or "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" knows what its like to look for awe and find it over and over again. Even though I won't be directing theatre anymore, I know how to reach out and find awe and I need to make it a conscious practice. WOW. I hope my aging memory doesn't lose that thought.
thank you Donna - I am so grateful that this spoke to you as it did! I am grateful to be on this journey with you!
When I was a child, I developed a sense of easily finding awe from the need to step outside of the disfunction in family life. The mean spiritedness and dog eat dog environment caused pain and anxiety.
I survived and thrived anyway. I am all grown-up and with gray hair and wrinkles and still everyday find awe. At lunch time, maybe how the cloud formations look that float above the office buildings, or people giving homeless men and women on the street water and food. The moon in all its phases set in the evening sky fills me with awe every evening. Every night before bed I gaze.
I am so grateful that now as a happy healthy adult I still easily find awe everyday.
Terri - thank you for sharing. That is a powerful aspect of awe of how it can help us cope with painful and difficult circumstances. I love how awe has been with you your whole journey.