The Missing Ingredient of Modern Life
Excerpt: "Efficiency now infuses every aspect of contemporary life, if you let it. ...Optimization is terrific if you want to get somewhere else in the future. But it’s terrible for being where you actually are right now. ...I've come to believe that wonder, the most immense of our sensations, is the antidote."
"Whenever you cease treating the world as scenery or equipment, you’ll find that you encounter the world as something inexhaustibly, constantly present. Oceans and ants, sewing machines and sunsets, strangers and screen doors, microwaves and mountains, rocks and racquets, lamps and laughter all prove equally worthy.
Our expectations for wonder sometimes wane, but it is with us all along, waiting to be rediscovered."