ATLAS OF THE HEART by Brené Brown

“Both awe and wonder are often experienced in response to nature, art, music, spiritual experiences, or ideas.

In the midst of these moments, we can feel overwhelmed by the vastness of something that is almost incomprehensible — it almost feels like what we’re witnessing can’t be true — like we’re seeing something that doesn’t fit with how we move through and understand our everyday lives.

Awe and wonder are essential to the human experience.

Wonder fuels our passion for exploration and learning, for curiosity and adventure.

I appreciated Rachel Carson’s wish for all the children in the world
<<If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.>>

Brené Brown wrote a dictionary of emotions named “Atlas of the heart.” She says that it is essential to have the language when speaking about our emotions, and for me, it makes sense. After all the things I have learned in my fifty-one years, I lacked in this subject.

Long after I bought the book, I started watching the documentary that Brené has done based on the same book on HBO. I like it a lot because of Brené’s presentation skills and her examples chosen from movies and soap operas!

Kindle, 2022