Maybe the sheer awesomeness of existence is too much for us to comprehend – too much to actually feel. Maybe that is why we allow ourselves to be constantly distracted by our thoughts, plans, worries, regrets. Maybe that’s why we keep ourselves so busy all the time, so that we are not completely caught up in the miraculous majesty of our ordinary surroundings, because if we were to really notice, we’d be paralyzed: transfixed by beauty. So it is a paradox that we must study, and work to learn how to experience the Truth of Being: that all life is amazing, stupendous, and wonderful every moment just because it is.
Nick Hilton - Reflections 