Sentences with phrase «experience feelings of awe»

Recent research suggests that people who regularly experience feelings of awe might have reduced risk of getting heart disease or cancer.

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I believe some are more apt to experience these feelings than others, and consider the propensity for awe and wonder to be an element of personality that some are predisposed to experience to a greater degree than others.

My thoughts resemble Richard Dawkins on the matter: «The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

When Rudolf Otto describes the sense of the «numinous» or holy as an irrational experience both fascinating and awe inspiring, in which the content can only be felt and not spoken about, he is making a similar point.

I missed experiencing the greatest awe - inspiring wonder that nature has to offer because our local school officials — who felt eclipse watching was too dangerous for children and did not want to be held liable in the event of an injury — had issued overly cautious warnings.

And perhaps therein lies the root of cultural flaw that leaves aging women feeling obsolete and of diminishing worth, instead of wearing the wisdom (and the fab shoe collection) we accumulate from experience with the pride and the awe it deserves.

We crave those awe - inspiring moments when we realize the person we're connecting with has shared the same experiences and we live for those instances in which we're hit with the feeling that a relationship we're present in has the quality of being «fated».

Here's how awe works: when we experience an inspiring work of art or a grand vista in nature, or when we learn a new mind - expanding theory, we often feel a sense of vastness that gives us a new perspective on the world and our place in it.

I got to the end of several fast runs feeling in awe of and slightly giddy with the speed, but not elated and grinning at the driving experience.

Experience the awe of the spectacular views from your suite's private viewing deck or feel as though you're floating on air with a dip in your personal plunge pool on the very edge of the breathtaking precipice.

Experience for yourself the unique feeling of awe which dolphins inspire...

Video games provide an aesthetic experience, and the effects they produce in this consumer most closely resembled the silent awe I feel in the presence of the most powerful architecture, sculpture and installation art.

I think that there are experiences of awe or majesty in the world, in that way sort of touch on maybe some of the experiences you felt in something like Jurassic Park, for example.

Instrumenting a feeling of awe, the piece outlines the disadvantages of mass production for aesthetics and notes a seemingly undiscovered desire by society to experience nature's sublime stillness.