# Awe **Domain:** Emotion / Meaning **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Awe** is the response to an experience of scale, beauty, complexity, or significance that exceeds a person's current frame of understanding and invites that frame to enlarge. ## Mechanism and Practice Awe can reorganize attention away from habitual self-concern and toward exploration, gratitude, and purpose. Its motivational force comes from discovering that reality and the self contain more possibility than the prior model allowed. ## Relationships - **Related concepts:** [[wiki/Gratitude|Gratitude]] · [[wiki/Exploration|Exploration]] · [[wiki/Curiosity|Curiosity]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “The quickening of passion follows awe. Recognizing one's unique value can spark awe, gratitude, and enthusiasm. That fire galvanizes a person's whole intelligence into purposeful expression.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Language, Self-Dialogue, and the Practice of Transformation - Livestream (Sep 2016)* [[reminders/Gratitude/Awe Galvanizes Intelligence Into Purpose by Bryant McGill|Awe Galvanizes Intelligence Into Purpose by Bryant McGill]]