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…is when the mind cannot articulate what it sees, when it is unable to make it linear, logical, writes Subhan

The earliest recollection I have of an awe-inspiring experience was when I was six years old.

A friend of mine and I were lying down on my front lawn, looking up at a blanket of stars glittering in the black night sky. The experience so boggled my mind that all I could say was, “Wow!” again and again!

Periodically throughout my life, I have come across similar skies – usually out in nature, far away from city lights. And the experience is as if I had completely forgotten about the extraordinary nature of the stars and space, and our involvement in them! And my response is still the same: “Wow!”

It’s clearer now, that a ‘wow’ moment is when the mind cannot articulate what it sees, when it is unable to make it linear, logical.

Then, it’s only recourse is to drop away, leaving what feels like something more essential, more a natural part of me and the universe.

That same awe can continue to feel like a fluke, something ‘happenstantial’. Or, as my experiences tell me, it can be invited. With meditation. Or with putting myself into situations where the mind’s logic fails – like dancing like a madman…or speaking in gibberish…or by going to what Pema Chodron calls “the spaces that scare you!”

Each time, there is a world full of awe awaiting me, even if only for a moment or two. But the reality of a dimension beyond logic and a linear world can be experienced! And it IS available. It contains wonders and gifts and those things that I spent an earlier lifetime looking for outside.

Now, it is going inside and finding them: love, peace, silence, worthiness. They are there, simply waiting for us to turn in!

Featured photo by Sindre Fs