Dave Evans

He'll explain to me exactly why a sunset works the way it does.

Or as the old Noel Stuckey song says, you know, a scientist may tell you how night turns into day, but it can never take the wonder away.

So if I allow the wonder of something to get to me and I let my curiosity fall into it without suddenly trying to diagnose and deconstruct the thing technically...

I allow myself to have this deeper experience of wonder, of awe.

What does that really mean?

It means there's something bigger than me going on.

What Maslow finally realized was a higher experience than self-actualization, which is self-transcendency.

What was going on in that amazing sunset was a whole bunch of people were having a transcendent moment.

And as it was shared, we became even more human with one another.

So that's what wonder does.

It really leans us fully into our humanness.

It really is about paying attention.

You know, a philosopher will tell you that the mere fact that anything exists at all is actually kind of stunning.

We're just so used to it.

You know, I'm sitting here at my desk and I have a couple of pieces of paper, you know, and that paper, oh my God, I mean, that used to be a tree and that tree used to be a seed.

And I'm like, holy cow.

I mean, everything is amazing if you just haven't forgotten it.

So...

We all live in an enchanted reality, but we've just gotten so accustomed to it, we've turned the enchantment off.

So, we offer...