🔭 The universe’s way of looking at itself

May 4, 2023

“We became the universe’s way of looking at itself. We invented telescopes and ice cream, mathematics and music, not one of which had to exist. To me, that is the daily wonder of being alive.”

Maria Popova returned to the CreativeMornings/New York stage with a tribute to every day instances of wonder. Popova, the legendary founder of the Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), discusses how moments of wonder demand unselfing, unspooling the well-worn patterns we’ve created through our focus on the self. She recalls moments of enchantment when the two scales — the universal and the personal — converge, like when the light of a street lamp reflects and shimmers in the puddle of a gutter. Watch Maria Popova’s love letter to the world and become wondersmitten with our reality.

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