The wonder of it all.(A)

The ordinary consciousness takes for granted the things that exist as they are. It does not question; it finds everything very natural and as a matter of course. It sees and expects to see the same old familiar things repeated and is not struck by any  extraordinary note in them. that is the unconsciousness of the ordinary consciousness. But when you begin to be conscious, when you look about and gaze at things, you awake, as it were from sleep, and begin to question, to wonder: why is it like this, how is it so, what is it, to what purpose etc etc. Normally you see the sun rise, rain fall, earth rotate but you do not spend a thought over any of these happenings, except that they are useful or simple nuisance. But when there is a light in you and you become conscious, conscious of yourself and the things around you then every thing acquires an importance, a sense and you are full of wonder, wondering at the wonderful creation. The more you advance the more the light grows in you. now all the more the wonder increases. As awareness increases, your interest too increases. a new beauty surrounds, flows out of every object and event. You do not take things for granted and let things pass mechanically, but meet with every one of them as a guest, with whom you wish to make acquaintance and be familiar, each one having a message for you and yourself something to deliver. that is the source of inexhaustible delight and of ever increasing knowledge.