"Doctors came to see her singly and in consultation, talked much in French, German, and Latin, blamed one another, and prescribed a great variety of medicines for all the diseases known to them, but the simple idea never occurred to any of them that they could not know the disease Natasha was suffering from, as no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine. "

Leo Tolstoy

Posts tagged with 'awe'

Awe: how it's good for us, a self-assessment quiz and a series of 'awe-inspiring' exercises we can try.

25th February 2023

"“It’s a question of seeing so much clearer. Of doing to things what light does to them.” Eugene Guillevic I've been interested by 'Awe' recently ... partly inspired by the recent publication of Dacher Keltner's book Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder. There is so much emerging material highlighting …

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