{"id":1228,"date":"2007-07-04T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T15:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/07\/the-power-of-awe.html"},"modified":"2007-07-04T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T15:01:01","slug":"the-power-of-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/07\/the-power-of-awe.html","title":{"rendered":"All Learning Stems From Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In every soul who seeks to reach the truth, there must, at one time, be present this experience of standing in awe before the universe. Otherwise our thinking will attain merely to what is correct, but never to the truth in its reality… Someone may be the most astute thinker, but if he has never passed through this stage of wonderment, nothing will come of it; it will remain merely a spinning of ideas. All real knowledge must have as its seed-kernel–wonder.”
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