vastness

vastness. Has two key components – it is elicited by a perception ofvastness, which prompts a need for accommodation. Vastness can mean a large physicalize or it can also be conceptual.

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Wonderstuck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen De Cruz

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It was just weather, and weather can be studied. There is even an awe waiting on the far side of the fear — the particular awe that vastness stirs, the sky so large it forces the mind to stretch to take it in. As the old line goes, those seen dancing were thought insane by the ones who could not hear the music; learn to hear the music in the chaos, and to the frightened you will look like you are dancing. — Takeoff Into Chaos

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