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<p class="paracenter">THE WONDER OF IT ALL
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<p class="para"> 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 it is like 
this, how is it so, what is it, to what purpose etc. etc. Normally you see the 
sun rises, rain falls, earth rotates—but you do not spend a thought over any of 
these objects or happenings, except so far as they are useful or simple 
nuisance. But when there is a light in you and you become conscious, conscious 
of yourself and of things around you, everything acquires an importance, a sense 
and you are full of wonder, wondering at a wonderful creation. The more you 
advance, the more the light grows in you, all the more your wonder increases. As 
your awareness increases, your interest too increases. A new beauty surrounds, 
flows out of every object and event.
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-86</p>
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<p class="para">You do not take things for granted and let them pass 
mechanically, but meet 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 a source of inexhaustible delight and of ever 
increasing knowledge.
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-87</p>
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