“How do you talk about that which is too big to talk about? That moment of awe and wonder.” David Oates shares his wonderment in his memoir – The mountains of Paris – “It’s such a specialized cave we go into, to sort of change our mind for a bigger mind; that is a shared mind…I think that experience is the origin of all religion….Everybody wants to own it. It is un-ownable.”

A moment with a Vermeer painting can fill a a whole week if you let it.


A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

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