Wonders of Being , quotes from wonderful minds

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. --Augustine

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans. --Kahlil Kibran

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in sub defined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart. 
-- George MacDonald

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge. --Abraham Joshua Heschel

If your heart is straight with God, then every creature will be to you a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine. No creature is so little or so mean as not to show forth and represent the goodness of God. –Thomas A'Kempis

I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy and steeped with God that the question is hard to answer.--John Muir

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.--Thich Nhat Hanh:

Nothing is interesting, if you're not interested. --Helen MacInnes

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.—Erich Heller

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-- Eden Phillpotts