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Dacher Keltner — The Thrilling New Science of Awe

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Meditation - Eight Wonders of Life

Awe is about, fundamentally, what is the individual's relation to the big systems of life that move us culturally and individually? For some people it's music, for other people it's a conception of the divine. And that's what awe gives you. I think we have been in this big narrowing of consciousness. Like smartphones and little apps, you know, it's narrow by its physicality. It's like looking up and out and getting activated in a grounding way. We're really not okay, right? Like we're not okay. And the world is not okay.

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