Awe.............................................

"The aforementioned Paul Pearsall, inventor of 'openture,' spent a large part of his life waging a lonely battle of which John Keats would surely have approved:  to get the concept of 'awe' accepted by the psychological establishment as one of the primary human emotions, alongside such standards as love, joy, anger, fear, sadness.  'Unlike all the other emotions,' he argued, awe 'is all of our feelings rolled up into one intense one.  You can't peg it just happy, sad, afraid, angry, or hopeful.  Instead, it's a matter of experiencing all these feelings and yet, paradoxically, experiencing no clearly identifiable, or at least any easily describable, emotion.'  Awe, he writes, 'is like trying to assemble a complex jigsaw puzzle with pieces missing.  There's never any closure in an awe-inspiring life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.  We're never allowed to know when this fantastic voyage might end ... but that's part of the life-disorienting chaos that makes this choice so thrillingly difficult.'"
-Oliver Burkeman,  The Antidote:  Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking