Traveling makes us forget our surroundings and ourselves for a moment through this very sense of wonder. Otherwise, we tend to apply our minds to a nagging commentary on the world surrounding us. We even delude ourselves into considing these useless thoughts as some sort of final judgment on "reality", only to accept grudgingly that "reality" has changed, completely and irrevocably a few hours later. On the other hand, be it a master picture, poem, theatre play, or music, can awaken us to the fact that our "normal" perception of "reality" is not all that depth of the universe. These explorations must begin with an inquiry into the depths of our own individual personalities. How we are conditioned from childhood, and everyday of our lives.

For some reason we lack a key to the door that leads to this awareness. Yet, all children if given the opportunity have this key, and it is for this reason that insight is said to be closed to those who fail to become children at heart again and let go of their obsessions of control and calculated moves of cunning abuse of power.

Acting childish, or even to be naive, doesn’t seem to be a helpful strategy either. Quite on the contrary, adults need to be aware of their own capacities. This involves the making of a new beginning each moment before routine and boredom set in. Could this be a better way of preventing premature senility and ill health than becoming young at heart again? Here lies the magic of awareness solely for the purpose of sharing moments of beauty.

All over the world, as I have traveled extensive, museums and libraries are devoted to enabling ordinary citizens to participate in the realm of beauty, which is partial insight, according to their own interests and capabilities.

This sense of wonder, combined with curiosity about the world we live in, according to scientists, is a key to good health. Yet, if health and money become our primary concern, we have already lost that childlike inquiry which is indispensible to creation and perception.

Yes, poets and artists of all kinds have sought, over and over again, to give expression to their sense of wonder. This experience strikes as a flash—unexpected, powerful, unforgettable, partial insight to sometimes so stunning that life is never the same again.

The riches gained by way of being aware, attentive, gives a greater sense of wonder, which can be called happiness and fulfillment. The experiencer points out that many names are used for the divine force behind the manifestations, which make up the universe, but the word is not the thing. We need to be attentive, aware as we observe any animal, bird, mountain, or tree; so, to be able to marvel at the presence of something great, which binds us all together. We are the world.

It is important to be reminded that after centuries of blind belief in religious and political doctrines, followed by many centuries of superstitions, belief in technological and knowledge progress, we still are not able to form our own opions about what is called "reality" in a reasonable and humane spirit. Because we do not use all our senses at the same time, we do not know that we, as everything that surrounds us in the universe, are made of the same basic subtle energies whose true nature is yet to be explored and expressed satisfactorily, and not to hesitate to express our sense of wonder and joy so that we too can be attentive.

We must be aware of our feelings, all the senses alert, and sanative as they are evoked by the arts, whether painting, music, writing, dancing, pottery, drama, and photography to name but a few. Because we are not attentive to our conditioning from childhood, we are undeveloped, and possibility that we took a wrong turn in the evolutionary "path" in quotes, and do not act in full measure to everyday conflicts. Why are we so self-centered creatures?

Maybe for the first time in history, the insistence of participation in the creation and protection of beauty can be proven to be a responsible if not a vital task for each of us. Krishnamurti in his presence, when he walked this earth among us, was that beauty that perfume. Is it not our worth to be attentive to understand that it is not just for a privileged few but all humanity. Being aware, sensitive to our own decisions in every aspect of our lives rather than being manipulated by groups, organizations by way of imposing a sense of insecurity or inferiority on us.

Beauty cannot be measured in terms of money and health, for the sense of wonder is free of cost if we just make the effort to become lifelong students of life itself.

This is the best investment we can make as a "life-insurance". After all, life is a precious gift, and yet we must ask ourselves whether we have the appreciation of being whole, undivided for its own sake.