Thrive by Arianna Huffington

Author:Arianna Huffington [Huffington, Arianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-8041-4085-0
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2014-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Wonder

Men go forth to wonder at the heights of mountains, the extent of the oceans, and the courses of the stars, and omit to wonder at themselves.

—ST. AUGUSTINE

Blast-off on a Journey to Inner Space

ON THE morning after the launch of HuffPost Germany in October 2013, I was in a car on my way to the airport from the center of Munich. It was raining, which gave everything a beautiful, almost magical, shimmer. All the buildings and trees seemed wrapped in wonder. Yet when I arrived at the airport, everyone I talked to was complaining about the rain. We were all experiencing the same weather but with very different results.

Wonder is not just a product of what we see—of how beautiful or mysterious or singular or incomprehensible something may be. It’s just as much a product of our state of mind, our being, the perspective from which we are looking at the world. At a different time, in a different city (maybe even most times in most cities), I, too, might have been annoyed by the rain. But at this particular time, in this particular city, what came to my mind instead was a poem by Albert Huffstickler (I know his name sounds German, but he’s from Texas):

We forget we’re

mostly water

till the rain falls

and every atom

in our body

starts to go home.

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