Heroes Not Zombies

Awe is the sensation of connecting to what is greater than you. It’s a moment of dissolution of the self, to less apart from the whole, and more an inseparable part of the whole. It’s where boundaries and limits disappear. It’s expansive, stimulating and life enhancing.

In Keltner’s book about awe, he reports that many people experience it in nature. Here, I looked towards the far blue mountains, saw the vast stretches of bush in the middle distance and the Hadida taking off in flight from the foreground garden. And right in front of me, this astonishing sculpture, which captures a sense of liberation, of freedom, of transition, of aspiration to escape any worldly limitations and soar, just as the Hadida is about to do.

Awe-some.