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Jen Knox
Dec 27, 2023
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“Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.” — Dacher Keltner

When have you been in or witnessed awe?

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I’ve felt it in response to a line of prose or poetry that turned my worldview inside out, and I’ve felt something like it after losing all sense of self i…

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