Wonder is not a simple feeling. It constitutes the original posture of Being in awakening, the natural disposition of the soul facing the mystery of life and infinity. Carl Gustav Jung describes it as that moment when one stands before the unknown – the unconscious, the cosmos, invisible forces – fascinated and humble at once. In this state of receptivity emerges the numinous, this presence that surpasses understanding, blending fascination and sacred awe, and which directly touches the soul.

Philosophers and mystics confirm this idea. Kierkegaard speaks of wonder as the instant when being stands face to face with infinity, the beginning of all profound knowledge. Abraham Joshua Heschel describes a "radical amazement," indispensable for perceiving the grandeur of reality before any rational explanation. In mystical Kabbalah, this attitude approaches "reverential awe," which opens the soul to light and prepares union with the divine.

Wonder also traverses all great spiritual traditions. In Christianity, it manifests through mystical ecstasy, an experience of direct communion with the divine. In Sufi Islam, it takes the form of inner ecstasy, awakening an expansive and luminous consciousness. In Buddhism, samadhi is a state of concentration and inner unity, where the mind merges with ultimate reality, accompanied by profound wonder. The Sikh tradition also describes this opening of the soul, emphasizing the spontaneous recognition of the beauty and perfection of creation.

Wonder is cultivated through meditation, conscious attention and observation of life's small details: a bird's chirping, a ray of sunlight, a child's smile. These simple moments are actually doorways to the soul's depth and contemplation of the sacred.

Joseph Joubert, French philosopher and moralist, expressed this idea with precision. For him, "nothing gives birth to thought but astonishment," and "the mind's greatest pleasure is to discover in the simplest things what is most profound." He insisted on the necessity of looking attentively and lingering on what we think we see in an instant, because "attention is the path to wonder." According to Joubert, this disposition is not superficial: it reveals the beauty and depth of daily life and opens consciousness to vaster dimensions.

Now imagine an original void-fullness, where consciousness still sleeps, carried by a matrix that contains everything and nothing at once, eternally virgin, vibrating with a deep sound, similar to the mmmm of OM. In this infinite space, a point of light appears, perhaps born from this original sound. Consciousness awakens, sees a phenomenon for the first time, and spontaneously moves toward this light that grows and illuminates. Wonder then emerges, pure and primordial, like light revealing itself after all eternity of silence.

This memory of wonder is the root of the Self that awakens. It guides our evolution and our relationship to the world. Our soul, like a flower turned toward the sun, moves toward a central sun at the heart of the universe.

Remembering this original posture, reactivating and cultivating it each day — through meditation, conscious attention and observation of life in its simplest details — allows our consciousness to fully awaken to Life.