Awe: the powerful emotion with strange and beautiful effects | Oliver Burkeman

Feeling awe has been linked to health and happiness ... but the experience is its own justificationThe other day, I got fairly decisively lost while hiking in the French Pyrénées. Not seriously lost, since I had a functioning iPhone, and was never much more than an hour’s walk from a road where, in a crisis, I could doubtless have flagged down a grudging French motorist. (Is there any other kind?) But just lost enough to feel the first frisson of something like fear: enough t