Wonder

“In fact, when feeling that your context has lost its meaning, when feeling trapped within the ambitious parameters you have spun, it helps to lose your map and return to the direct experience of feeling where your foot lands and what your eye sees. Following the immediate can break our patterns and restore wonder as our guide.” – Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen

When we let go of plans that no longer fit and assumptions that limit our horizon, we make room for wonder, for what’s next, for possibility. Wonder is waiting to be found in plain sight. Risk wonder and release what should be or has been, be fully present in this very moment. No map, just wonder.

“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless