wonder

Doubt is the act of challenging our beliefs. . . . This is an active, investigative doubt: the kind that inspires us to wander onto shaky limbs or out into left field; the kind that doesn't divide the mind so much as multiply it, like a tree in which there are three blackbirds and the entire Bronx Zoo. This is the doubt we stand to sacrifice if we can't embrace error__he doubt of curiosity, possibility, and wonder.

I did wonder if I'd have cause to rue my action. Now I believe it can safely be filed under Necessary Regrets.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The Lord of my life, who calls me to be brave and walk into the unknown, amazing future. I am always awed by the wonder of you.

There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience. But there are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about the future might be wrong: humility and wonder.

, I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must alwayshave been, being unfolded without fault from the beginning. The leaf on the tree is green because it couldnever have been anything else. Now, the fairy-tale philosopher is glad that the leaf is green precisely becauseit might have been scarlet. He feels as if it had turned green an instant before he looked at it.

This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller's life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller's most precious gift to us may reside in the ideas and the works, still yet to be imagined, of women and men who follow her example. We may decide that, despite all that Margaret Fuller endured and suffered in order to become exceptional, her life, or rather her lives, well deserve imitating.

When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.

No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.

If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response?

We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer__ meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold galaxies that breech the very edges of the universe itself. Such are the privileges we enjoy because of God__ unimaginable imagination.

Imagination is a spark of a divine light.

The spark of wondering is the start of writing.

You can either worry or wonder. The best choice is to wonder.

Wondering is illusion.

I write the sacred words from wondering.

Explore the power of creativity.

Explore the power of a beautiful wonder.