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Wonder
The catching of the breath before what cannot be made small — every tradition holds astonishment as the door of every other virtue.
Judaism
"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;"
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
"...and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
Christianity
"...Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"
Hinduism
"If there should rise suddenly within the skies sunburst of a thousand suns flooding earth with beams undeem'd-of, then might be that Holy One's majesty and radiance dreamed of."