Category: Amazement

• February 9, 2015

  Amazement doesn’t add up

  I am amazed when what I am in the presence of doesn’t immediately add up. It is not the concrete particular, not something about some thing but the general furniture of the world that carries me into amazement. Then, the world presents itself to me as a mystery, full and true. I didn’t know that–. I…
• January 2, 2015

  An artist’s thought

  Amazement.–Look with me at the man on the canvas, the one with two faces, two men or the same facing different directions. A sailor, a hardened man, a handkerchief lightly about the neck. He has no ears yet but he is equipped, beautifully so, with a firm carnivore’s jaw. Awe the moment we stopped, feet scuffing earth no more,…
• December 29, 2014

  ‘God cannot be amazed’

  ‘God cannot be amazed,’ states Josef Pieper in Happiness and Contemplation. So much the worse for God, I think. It can be good to think about what God cannot be. God knows, so he cannot be amazed. Not ever. The Thomist Pieper: In contemplation a mirandum is seen, that is to say, a reality which evokes amazement because…