Welcome to the Sunday Evening Sofa - Two Quotes and One Question
(from the Small Stories about Big Things newsletter)
My hope? Maybe you can lean back onto your Sunday evening sofa with…
a bit more encouragement,
a bit more calm,
and a helpful thought or two sitting with your soul.
QUOTES
“The more I wonder, the more I love.”
- Alice Walker in The Color Purple
“The two facts which attract almost every normal person to children are, first, that they are very serious, and secondly, that they are in consequence very happy… The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old.
It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe. And astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common sense.”
- G.K. Chesterton in The Defendent
QUESTION
What are the conditions that free you to experience awe?