Reengaging with awe

Once we have gone through at least a decade of social conditioning, it can be easy to forget what true awe and curiosity feel like. And yet, observing my toddler, I am reminded that awe was once accessible to all of us, in fact it is a very central dimension of our true nature.

If you want to reengage with your curiosity, meditate on who you are prior to social conditioning. What is left, when you strip away those layers of the onion?

Julien Dupré’s “The Balloon (Le Ballon)” (1886)