who needs a life less ordinary?

On the subway today, I was surprised to find a profound quote printed on the back of my MetroCard (from one of my favorite novels, no less: George Eliot's epic Middlemarch). It definitely gave me food for thought during my ride home.

Here's the quote: "We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual.... If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

These words—and the fact that such wisdom even appeared on something as mundane as a transit pass!—remind me that within the seemingly ordinary lies an amazement that our limited comprehension usually bypasses; we must open our eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to experience the divinity that is latent everywhere and in everyone.