miketheiron
Wonder
Aristotle wrote that a sense of wonder is the beginning of all philosophy. In other words, it is our capacity to be astonished, to experience a profound lack of insight, that leads us at last to wisdom. Wonder, however sweet the word, is at heart an exquisitely frustrating feeling: the sensation of being confronted by an idea or phenomenon so strange and baffling that we ourselves cannot possibly begin to explain it — accompanied by the deep, wild, hope that an explanation does exist.
Wonder is a feeling of amazement so moving that it inspires us to reach across the abyss of ignorance and clutch at the far edge of understanding. It is a glorious deficiency; a perverse pleasure.
If we are without wonder, we are asleep in the world. If we are filled with it, the world itself becomes a dream of color and light.
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