Instead of puzzling over mysterious, he puzzled over the commonplace!

His cocky contempt for authority led him to question received wisdom in ways that well-trained acolytes in the academy never contemplated. And as for his slow verbal development, he thought that it allowed him to observe with wonder the everyday phenomena that others took for granted. Instead of puzzling over mysterious things, he puzzled over the commonplace. "When I ask myself how it happened that I in particular discovered the relativity theory, it seemed to lie in the following circumstance," Einstein once explained. "The ordinary adult never bothers his head about the problems of space and time. These are things he has thought of as a child. But I developed so slowly that I began to wonder about space and time only when I was already grown up. Consequently, I probed more deeply into the problem than an ordinary child would have." -- W. ISAACSON

That is a paragraph of an interesting article on TIME, called Einstein & Faith. It is just a great gift, to be able to puzzle over the commonplace. I have always envied people who have an eye for the marvel and beauty of the simple.