Comments on: Allowing Yourself to be Fascinated http://www.keenerliving.com/allowing-yourself-to-be-fascinated A retired professional talks about life, technology, learning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mollie http://www.keenerliving.com/allowing-yourself-to-be-fascinated#comment-31602 Mollie Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:31:33 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1338#comment-31602 The sunrise in the morning fascinates me as the ball of fire comes creeping and peeking at the edge of the world. I am fascinated and grateful for my two small dogs. What are they thinking? Why do they look at me like they do and my heart melts thinking how dependent they are. I am grateful to this spirit inside of me that keeps hoping and believing even when my mind doesn't want to. Thanks for sharing your article. The sunrise in the morning fascinates me as the ball of fire comes creeping and peeking at the edge of the world.
I am fascinated and grateful for my two small dogs. What are they thinking? Why do they look at me like they do and my heart melts thinking how dependent they are.
I am grateful to this spirit inside of me that keeps hoping and believing even when my mind doesn’t want to. Thanks for sharing your article.

]]> By: Nikhil http://www.keenerliving.com/allowing-yourself-to-be-fascinated#comment-31214 Nikhil Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:38:56 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1338#comment-31214 Bill, I think it's brilliant that you posted your thoughts so beautifully, it amazes me that more people think about gossip, tabloid news and shopping than they do about things like consciousness. I can't help but feel like we've been lead astray into a world where everything is explained, and there are simple lines drawn and laws made about things like drugs without really knowing anything about it. Time fascinates me, especially since it was theorised that time travel is possible, quantum physics and alternate universes fascinate me - just imagining there's millions of possibilities of everything that exists doesn't fail to give me goosebumps. Thanks again, for the post! Bill,
I think it’s brilliant that you posted your thoughts so beautifully, it amazes me that more people think about gossip, tabloid news and shopping than they do about things like consciousness. I can’t help but feel like we’ve been lead astray into a world where everything is explained, and there are simple lines drawn and laws made about things like drugs without really knowing anything about it.

Time fascinates me, especially since it was theorised that time travel is possible, quantum physics and alternate universes fascinate me – just imagining there’s millions of possibilities of everything that exists doesn’t fail to give me goosebumps.

Thanks again, for the post!

]]> By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/allowing-yourself-to-be-fascinated#comment-31203 Bruce Keener Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:32:11 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1338#comment-31203 Well said, Bill ... the same things fascinate me. And to think that this might only be one of an infinite number of universes makes my spec seem even smaller. Well said, Bill … the same things fascinate me. And to think that this might only be one of an infinite number of universes makes my spec seem even smaller.

]]> By: Bill Myers http://www.keenerliving.com/allowing-yourself-to-be-fascinated#comment-31202 Bill Myers Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:59:41 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1338#comment-31202 What fascinates me? Looking at the stars at night, and knowing that what I'm seeing is an image that's thousands of years old, because that's how long it took the light to reach me. Imagining the sheer unimaginable power of each gigantic ball of fire held together in a way my mind can't comprehend. And realizing that while I like to think of myself as the center of the universe, I am just the tiniest speck of a speck upon the fabric of reality. What fascinates me?

Looking at the stars at night, and knowing that what I’m seeing is an image that’s thousands of years old, because that’s how long it took the light to reach me. Imagining the sheer unimaginable power of each gigantic ball of fire held together in a way my mind can’t comprehend. And realizing that while I like to think of myself as the center of the universe, I am just the tiniest speck of a speck upon the fabric of reality.

]]> By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/allowing-yourself-to-be-fascinated#comment-31176 Bruce Keener Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:43:42 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1338#comment-31176 @kazari ... Good list. Thanks for sharing. @Kelly ... interesting thought. I'll have to think about it :) @kazari … Good list. Thanks for sharing.

@Kelly … interesting thought. I’ll have to think about it :)

]]> By: Kelly Shaw http://www.keenerliving.com/allowing-yourself-to-be-fascinated#comment-31174 Kelly Shaw Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:29:06 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1338#comment-31174 perhaps rationality is the greatest block of all perhaps rationality is the greatest block of all

]]> By: Around the Internet 9-19-08 | steve-olson.com http://www.keenerliving.com/allowing-yourself-to-be-fascinated#comment-31172 Around the Internet 9-19-08 | steve-olson.com Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:04:03 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1338#comment-31172 [...] at Keener Living writes about how important it is to allow yourself to fascinated. He reminds us how we take amazing simple things we do and see for granted. Some people think this [...] [...] at Keener Living writes about how important it is to allow yourself to fascinated. He reminds us how we take amazing simple things we do and see for granted. Some people think this [...]

]]> By: kazari http://www.keenerliving.com/allowing-yourself-to-be-fascinated#comment-31162 kazari Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:59:26 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1338#comment-31162 Thats a good list. Here's some of mine: - language laid bare in poetry. or just playful language. - landscape. a sense of place, any understanding of what's around me - historical or geological or ecological, it's always fascinating. and that lovely feeling when you touch warm stone or wet earth and feel a connection. - ritual - i'm always fascinated by different religions, different cultures, or just our different habits. How does somebody make rice differently to me? how do they pray? all the small details of our lives that make them foreign to somebody else. Thats a good list. Here’s some of mine:
- language laid bare in poetry. or just playful language.
- landscape. a sense of place, any understanding of what’s around me – historical or geological or ecological, it’s always fascinating. and that lovely feeling when you touch warm stone or wet earth and feel a connection.
- ritual – i’m always fascinated by different religions, different cultures, or just our different habits. How does somebody make rice differently to me? how do they pray? all the small details of our lives that make them foreign to somebody else.

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