lost in wonder

This Lost in Wonder is actually the title of a book by Esther DeWaal on redisovering attentiveness. Her book is one of those few that have affected the way I live.  In it she quotes May Sarton from Journal of a Solitude:


If one looks long enough at almost anything,
Looks with absolute attention at a flower,
a stone,
the bark of a tree,
grass, snow, a cloud,
something like revelation takes place.
Something is 'given',
and perhaps that something
is always a reality outside the self.